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Beyond the Bounds of the State: Reinterpreting Cairo’s Infrastructures of Mobility 超越国家的边界：重新解读开罗的流动基础设施

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7589

Anna Rowell

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A Tramway Called Atonement : Genealogies of Infrastructure and Emerging Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Casablanca 一条被称为赎罪的电车：当代卡萨布兰卡基础设施和新兴政治想象的谱系

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7590

C. Strava

引用次数: 6

In/visible Infrastructure: Thinking (along) with Martin Heidegger about Infrastructural Breakdowns in South Africa 有形基础设施：与马丁·海德格尔一起思考南非的基础设施崩溃

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7586

L. Baumgardt

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引用次数: 3

Infrastructures as the Social in Action: An Interview with Ronen Shamir 作为社会在行动的基础设施：Ronen Shamir访谈录

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7731

Ezgican Özdemir, A. Nolte

引用次数: 3

“Even if the Sons of Rum are not like Him” The Spatial and Temporal Journey of a Late 19th Century Egyptian Song “即使朗姆酒之子不像他”19世纪晚期埃及歌曲的时空之旅

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7587

Olga Verlato

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The Violence of Infrastructural Connectivity: Jerusalem’s Light Rail as a Means of Normalisation 基础设施连通性的暴力:耶路撒冷的轻轨作为正常化的手段

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7593

Hanna Baumann

引用次数: 3

Infrastructuring Geographies: Histories and Presents in and of the Middle East and North Africa 基础设施地理：中东和北非的历史和现状

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7794

A. Nolte, Ezgican Özdemir

引用次数: 2

Insurgent Infrastructure: Tunnels of the Gaza Strip 叛乱分子的基础设施:加沙地带的隧道

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI: 10.17192/META.2018.10.7594

Toufic Haddad

引用次数: 2

It's Time to Talk about Youth in the Middle East as The Precariat 是时候把中东的青年称为无产者了

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.9.7061

L. Herrera

引用次数: 6

Analyzing Moroccan ‘Youth’ in Historical Context: Rethinking the Significance of Social Entrepreneurship 分析历史背景下的摩洛哥“青年”:重新思考社会企业家精神的意义

Middle East Topics Arguments Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.9.7584

Shana R. Cohen

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