Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 323 pp.
Contains index
Series: Cities and Cultures
ISBN 978-94-6298-909-2; 978-90-4854-150-8 (ebook)
Introduction: About Space as a Media Product / Alena Strohmaier and Angela Krewani, 9
I. CARTOGRAPHIES
1 Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire / Nour Nicole Dados, 27
2 Who Maps Middle Eastern Geographies in the Digital Age? Inequalities in Web 2.0 Cartographies in Israel/Palestine / Christian Bittner and Georg Glasze, 45
3 Taking the Battle to Cyberspace: Delineating Borders and Mapping Identities in Western Sahara / Frederik von Reumont, 71
4 Wargaming the Middle East: The Evolution of Simulated Battlefields from Chequerboards to Virtual Worlds and Instrumented Artificial Cities / Janina Schupp, 95
II. MOVEMENTS
5 Iranian Internet Cinema, a Cinema of Embodied Protest: Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global / Hamid Naficy, 119
6 From Amateur Video to New Documentary Formats: Citizen Journalism and a Reconfiguring of Historical Knowledge / Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans, 139
7 Cinematic Spaces of ‘the Arab Street’: Mohamed Diab’s Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016) / Alena Strohmaier, 159
8 Body-Space-Relation in Parkour: Street Practices and Visual Representations / Ines Braune, 175
9 Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees: Mapping Victim–Threat Correlations in Turkish Newspapers / Ayça Tunç Cox, 201
III. AGENCIES
10 Documenting Social Change and Political Unrest through Mobile Spaces and Locative Media / Angela Krewani, 225
11 Reframing the Arab Spring: On Data Mining and the Field of Arab Internet Studies / Laila Shereen Sakr, 241
12 Where is Iran? Politics between State and Nation, Inside and Outside the Polity / Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany, 261
13 Mapping Genocide? Giving Visual Memory to Oral Culture / Sebastian Maisel, 283
14 Reconfiguring the Kurdish Nation on YouTube: Spatial Imaginations, Revolutionary Lyrics, and Colonial Knowledge / Andrea Fischer-Tahir, 299
I. CARTOGRAPHIES
1 Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire / Nour Nicole Dados, 27
2 Who Maps Middle Eastern Geographies in the Digital Age? Inequalities in Web 2.0 Cartographies in Israel/Palestine / Christian Bittner and Georg Glasze, 45
3 Taking the Battle to Cyberspace: Delineating Borders and Mapping Identities in Western Sahara / Frederik von Reumont, 71
4 Wargaming the Middle East: The Evolution of Simulated Battlefields from Chequerboards to Virtual Worlds and Instrumented Artificial Cities / Janina Schupp, 95
II. MOVEMENTS
5 Iranian Internet Cinema, a Cinema of Embodied Protest: Imperfect, Amateur, Small, Unauthorized, Global / Hamid Naficy, 119
6 From Amateur Video to New Documentary Formats: Citizen Journalism and a Reconfiguring of Historical Knowledge / Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans, 139
7 Cinematic Spaces of ‘the Arab Street’: Mohamed Diab’s Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016) / Alena Strohmaier, 159
8 Body-Space-Relation in Parkour: Street Practices and Visual Representations / Ines Braune, 175
9 Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees: Mapping Victim–Threat Correlations in Turkish Newspapers / Ayça Tunç Cox, 201
III. AGENCIES
10 Documenting Social Change and Political Unrest through Mobile Spaces and Locative Media / Angela Krewani, 225
11 Reframing the Arab Spring: On Data Mining and the Field of Arab Internet Studies / Laila Shereen Sakr, 241
12 Where is Iran? Politics between State and Nation, Inside and Outside the Polity / Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany, 261
13 Mapping Genocide? Giving Visual Memory to Oral Culture / Sebastian Maisel, 283
14 Reconfiguring the Kurdish Nation on YouTube: Spatial Imaginations, Revolutionary Lyrics, and Colonial Knowledge / Andrea Fischer-Tahir, 299
