Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10202402

M. Malmström

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Abstract

This article explores the ambiguity of familiar materialities and the relationships between material and affective experiences. Those flows and interactions are crucial sites for interrogating social meanings, valences, and effects of suspicion. It explores how politically active Cairenes navigate suspicious spaces, bodies, and nonliving things in the cityscape and how materiality shapes and is shaped by the emotional-aesthetic responses of individuals and groups to the stimuli it provides. In this specific context, the distinct form of what I call agential ambivalence, where feelings of control apply to tactics for managing surveillance and to reckless risk-taking are key. Agential ambivalence is required to “stay alive” in Cairo. The activists I know still take extreme risks and sometimes even make seemingly careless decisions. Ambivalence in face of suspicion is a given, but it takes specific shapes and dynamics.

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在猜疑的海洋中航行

本文探讨了熟悉物质性的模糊性以及物质与情感体验之间的关系。这些流动和互动是探究怀疑的社会意义、价值和影响的关键场所。它探讨了政治上活跃的开罗人如何在城市景观中驾驭可疑的空间、身体和非生物，以及物质如何塑造和被个人和群体对其提供的刺激的情感审美反应所塑造。在这种特殊的背景下，我称之为“代理矛盾心理”的独特形式，即控制感适用于管理监视和鲁莽冒险的策略，是关键。要想在开罗“活下去”，就需要能动性的矛盾心理。我认识的激进分子仍然冒着极大的风险，有时甚至做出看似粗心的决定。面对怀疑时的矛盾心理是既定的，但它有特定的形式和动态。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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