BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Farha Ghannam on "Visibly\nIn-between: \n\nClass\,\nGender\, an d Taste in Urban Egypt"Farha Ghannam\,Professor\nof Anthropology\, Swarthm ore CollegeDrawing\non ethnographic research in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo and informed by\nthe work of Pierre Bourdieu\, feminist studies\, and theories of new materialism\,\nthis paper looks at the shifting taste s of social groups who occupy unstable\nand uncertain positions in the soc ial space. It draws attention to a fragment\nof the Egyptian working class \, who are able to accumulate more material and\ncultural forms of capital than their neighbors but not enough to securely join\nthe middle class. T he discussion looks at some of the ways class is enacted and\nvisibly mani fested in daily life and shows the central role of women in\nmaterializing the socio-economic status of their families through the ways they\nprepar e food\, maintain their homes\, and take care of their children and their education.Open to the public. Sponsored\nby the Maxwell African Scholars U nion and Middle Eastern Studies Program at the Moynihan Institute of Globa l Affairs \; DTEND:20160328T170000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T134525Z DTSTART:20160328T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:MASU presents: Farha Ghannam UID:RFCALITEM638472159250384192 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Farha Ghannam on "Visibly\nIn-bet ween: \n\nClass\,\nGender\, and Taste in Urban Egypt"
Farha G hannam\,Professor\nof Anthropology\, Swarthmore College
D rawing\non ethnographic research in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo and informed by\nthe work of Pierre Bourdieu\, feminist studies\, and theorie s of new materialism\,\nthis paper looks at the shifting tastes of social groups who occupy unstable\nand uncertain positions in the social space. I t draws attention to a fragment\nof the Egyptian working class\, who are a ble to accumulate more material and\ncultural forms of capital than their neighbors but not enough to securely join\nthe middle class. The discussio n looks at some of the ways class is enacted and\nvisibly manifested in da ily life and shows the central role of women in\nmaterializing the socio-e conomic status of their families through the ways they\nprepare food\, mai ntain their homes\, and take care of their children and their education. p>
Open to the public.
Sponsored\nby the Maxwell African Schol ars Union and Middle Eastern Studies Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;
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