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Al-Abad: On the Ongoing 阿巴德：正在进行的
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-11-08 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01504004
Eylaf Bader Eddin
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Infiltrators among Us 我们中间的渗透者
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-11-08 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01504014
Nura Ibold
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Narratives of Continuity and Change in Jeddah 吉达的连续性与变化叙事
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01503007
Stefan Maneval
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The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows , by Donatella Della Ratta, Kay Dickinson and Sune Haugbølle (eds.) 《阿拉伯档案馆：媒介记忆与数字流动》，作者：Donatella Della Ratta、Kay Dickinson和Sune Haugbølle（编辑）
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01503004
Stella Peisch
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Thinking of the City through Film and Cinema: Roll’em 通过电影和电影院思考城市:Roll 'em
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01503006
U. Freitag
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Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa , by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno (eds.) Mohja Kahf和Nadine Sinno（编辑）的《中东和北非男性化的构建》
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01503005
J. Abdelmoez
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No Spaces without History 没有历史就没有空间
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01503001
Bettina Gräf, Laura Hindelang
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The Transregional Illustrated Magazine Al-Arabi 跨地区插图杂志Al Arabi
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01503002
Bettina Gräf, Laura Hindelang
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Saudi YouTube Influencers, Their Relationship to Dubai and the Role of Social Media in Dubai’s Urban Branding Strategy 沙特YouTube网红，他们与迪拜的关系以及社交媒体在迪拜城市品牌战略中的作用
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01503003
Sabrina Zahren
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Regimes of Visibility in the Global Parkour 全球跑酷能见度制度
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1163/18739865-01501009
Ines Braune
{"title":"Regimes of Visibility in the Global Parkour","authors":"Ines Braune","doi":"10.1163/18739865-01501009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01501009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Parkour is often defined through its strikingly visual dimension with breathtaking images of leaps covering amazing distances, recordings of seemingly impossible body movements and flying bodies apparently no longer constrained by gravity. However, the basic idea behind parkour is to find the most efficient or direct path as one crosses from one point to another while overcoming all obstacles using only one’s bodily capacities. No additional tools are used or are necessary. The seemingly weightless traceurs and traceuses (parkour practitioners) run, jump and climb through public and digital space. At the same time, they produce visual footage of their best movements. As in other sporting cultures, such as skateboarding, surfing or climbing, the productions of visual material and the visual representation of the sports practices are interrelated. This hints at an entangled relationship between parkour and media in its various forms and aspects. In the following article, parkour will be described as a mediatized global cultural practice with a focus on established regimes of visibility. The analysis will be conducted from a local Moroccan and gendered perspective and using an ethnographic approach.","PeriodicalId":43171,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43566911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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