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Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Begüm Özden Fırat

    1. Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. Sarah Mul

    1. University of Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Sonja Wichelen

    1. Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Commitment and Complicity

    1. Introduction: Commitment and Complicity

      • Begüm Özden Fırat, Sarah De Mul, Sonja van Wichelen
      Pages 1-20

  4. Commitment and Complicity in the Production of Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. The Middle East and the Disciplinary (Re)Production of Knowledge

      • Andrea Teti
      Pages 81-101

    3. Empty Versatility and the Art of the Circular Reading

      • Timothy Brennan
      Pages 102-119

    4. The Commitment to Face

      • Mieke Bal
      Pages 120-136

  5. Putting Complicity to Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. The Necessity of ‘Terror’

      • Elleke Boehmer
      Pages 139-153

    3. Putting Complicity to Work for Accountability: An Australian Case Study

      • Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
      Pages 154-166

    4. Layers of Labor in Cultural Production: Notes on Aesthetics and Commitment from the Transparent Factory

      • Octavi Comeron
      Pages 167-181

    5. The Politics of ‘Contemporary Islamic Art’

      • Begüm Özden Fırat
      Pages 182-193

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 195-197
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About this book

An international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whether knowledge and methodologies in the humanities can intervene in everyday politics and vice-versa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Begüm Özden Fırat

  • University of Leuven, Belgium

    Sarah Mul

  • Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA

    Sonja Wichelen

About the editors

SARA AHMED is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK MIEKE BAL is Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor (KNAW), based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ELLEKE BOEHMER is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, UK TIMOTHY BRENNAN is Professor at the Departments of English and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA REY CHOW is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, USA OCTAVI COMERON is an artist and also a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, Spain FIONA PROBYN-RAPSEY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia ANDREA TETI is a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK

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