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ajnabiehMy Gender and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa class (GPMENA for short, because I'm cool like that) is concluding the semester with a unit on the way the politics of gender are shifting and transforming in this moment of intense transition. Because it's only been a year since these transitions started (where does the time go?), there isn't a scholarly literature yet--there are news stories, and blog posts, and tweets, and YouTube videos, and Facebook pages, and all sorts of half-written ephemera.
Now, I think learning to comb through half-written ephemera to understand the present moment is a crucial skill that I'm happy to teach my students. (And, if they do well at this, you'll all be seeing the product of their work in a month and a half; they're writing research dossiers which I hope to publish on this blog.) But that does mean that the work of collecting data is more than a little complicated.
To that end, I've started compiling a Google Document (chosen instead of a page on here because it'll be easier to update) of all the articles/etc I'm finding on Twitter, Facebook, and my RSS feeds relevant to gender, feminism, and women in the Arab revolutions. I've decided to make the document publicly readable (although I'm not allowing public editing), because I'm hoping it can be a resource to others.
If you want to read the document, it's here. At the moment, it's got two sections--the syllabus for the rest of our classes, and "other" links. Most of the data on it is in English, but I've left images and some links to videos with only Arabic text/audio, in part because I'm planning on translating them for my classes. None of it is annotated right now, simply because I don't have time to do that. Some of this stuff is fascinating--some of it is perplexing--some of it is enraging. And some of it is hilarious if you're in the right mood (I'm thinking of the Noor Party campaign posters--go check them out.) Take your pick, and have fun.
If you come across an article in English (or French or Spanish, those being the other two languages I read easily) about a woman, a group of women, or the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism in the Arab world in this transitional period, PLEASE send it along! Probably I should set up a Google Alert for this stuff, but I find all I do is archive the ones I get now for later data processing...
Now, I think learning to comb through half-written ephemera to understand the present moment is a crucial skill that I'm happy to teach my students. (And, if they do well at this, you'll all be seeing the product of their work in a month and a half; they're writing research dossiers which I hope to publish on this blog.) But that does mean that the work of collecting data is more than a little complicated.
To that end, I've started compiling a Google Document (chosen instead of a page on here because it'll be easier to update) of all the articles/etc I'm finding on Twitter, Facebook, and my RSS feeds relevant to gender, feminism, and women in the Arab revolutions. I've decided to make the document publicly readable (although I'm not allowing public editing), because I'm hoping it can be a resource to others.
If you want to read the document, it's here. At the moment, it's got two sections--the syllabus for the rest of our classes, and "other" links. Most of the data on it is in English, but I've left images and some links to videos with only Arabic text/audio, in part because I'm planning on translating them for my classes. None of it is annotated right now, simply because I don't have time to do that. Some of this stuff is fascinating--some of it is perplexing--some of it is enraging. And some of it is hilarious if you're in the right mood (I'm thinking of the Noor Party campaign posters--go check them out.) Take your pick, and have fun.
If you come across an article in English (or French or Spanish, those being the other two languages I read easily) about a woman, a group of women, or the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism in the Arab world in this transitional period, PLEASE send it along! Probably I should set up a Google Alert for this stuff, but I find all I do is archive the ones I get now for later data processing...