Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation : How to Make Sense of Change.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Making Sense of Change: Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation-An Introduction -- Ethnography and Change: A Key Social Science Issue -- The Assets of Ethnography for Studying Change -- Periodization and the Naming of Change -- The Indeterminacies of Lived Change -- Studying Snapshots of Change: An Analytical Framework -- Book Outline -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part I Scales of Change -- 2 Scales of Change and Diagnostic Contradictions: Shifting Relations Between an Emigrant Community and Its Diaspora -- Scale as Scope and Valence -- Change and Diagnostic Contradictions -- Economic Change and Continuity in Social Organization -- Erasure of the Past and the Eternity of the Lineage -- Local Change and the Changing Relationship with the Diaspora -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Seeing Social Change Through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011-2018 -- "We All Support the Revolution": Private Egyptian Universities in 2012 -- Public Universities During the Revolutionary Years, 2011-2013 -- Change After 2013 -- Conflicting Metanarratives of Change: Revolution and Internationalization -- Where Is Change, and How Can It Be Studied? -- Conclusion: What Does an Institutional Lens Tells Us About Change? -- Bibliography -- 4 Conceptualizing Change in the Cuban Revolution -- Revolution: Change and Continuity -- Metanarratives of Change: Reform or Revolution? -- The Death of Fidel Castro -- Aleyda: From the Solar to the Casa Particular -- Conclusion: When Change Is the Norm -- Bibliography -- Part II Biographies of Change -- 5 Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist -- Introduction -- Intergenerational Transmission as a Subject of Life Stories.

Interview: Shafik -- The First Day of School as an Emblematic Scene -- Peer Violence and Liminality -- Language and Collective Identity -- Politicization at University -- After University: Politics and Precariousness -- Discussion: Intergenerational Disparity, Peer Violence, and the Production of the Precariat -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 6 Rescuing Biography from the Nation: Discrete Perspectives on Political Change in Morocco -- Main Witnesses and Master Narratives of Political Change -- Biographies, Traces, and Nonhegemonic Accounts of the Nation -- Biography as Archivistic Imaginary of Continuity -- Memory Practices and Biographic Fieldwork -- Discrete Perspectives on Political Change -- Bibliography -- 7 "A Proper House, Not a Barn": House Biographies and Societal Change in Urban Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction -- The Birth of Ak Jar and Its Inhabitants' Concerns -- The Houses of Ak Jar: More Than just Bystanders -- Gradual Change in Chinara's Shack -- 2012: Early Days in a Dark and Stuffy Room -- 2013: Growing More Solid Through New Acquisitions -- 2014: Standing Firm-Gated and Fenced -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 When a Coterie Becomes a Generation: Intellectual Sociability and the Narrative of Generational Change in Sayyid Qutb's Egypt -- Generational Rhetoric in Interwar Egypt: Transmission and Rupture -- Intellectual Networks and the Shifting Registers of Argumentation: Generation and Shilaliyya -- Moment One: Sayyid Qutb and the Battle of Literary Criticism in 1934: From Peers to a Mentor -- Moment Two: Sayyid Qutb and the Battle of Juniors and Seniors in 1947: From Mentors to Peers -- Writing Oneself Into and Out of Generations: The Cases of Naguib Mahfuz and Sayyid Qutb -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III Change in the Making -- 9 Spatializing Social Change: Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Upper Guinea.

Mines as Liminal Spaces -- Coffee and Cigarettes: Challenging Gendered Expectations -- A Doorway to a Modern World? -- Mines as Ephemeral Spaces? -- Hyper-Mobility: Mine(Rs) on the Move -- Micro-Urbanization: Mining Territorialization -- Conclusion: Understanding Social Change Through the Analysis of Spaces -- Bibliography -- 10 The Affects of Change: An Ethnography of the Affective Experiences of the 2013 Military Intervention in Egypt -- The Rhythms of a Revolution and Its Aftermath -- Early February, 2011: Downtown Cairo -- Later in February, 2011: Downtown Cairo -- January, 2015: Downtown Cairo -- The Massacre and the Trauma -- Sensing Change: A Study of Change Grounded in Empirical Research -- Assets and Limits of the Methodology -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 11 Funeral Reforms in Taiwan: Insights on Change from a Discourse Analytic Perspective -- Introduction -- Funeral Reforms in Taiwan and Their Historical Context -- Methodology -- Studying Change with Discourse Analysis -- Discourse -- The Data: Press Articles -- Funeral Reform in Public Discourse -- The Measurement of Space -- The Economy of Cremation -- The Beautification of Cemeteries -- Anti-Superstition -- Secularization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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