Saba Mahmood

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Saba Mahmood (* 1962 in Lahore ; † March 10, 2018 ) was a professor of sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and a post-structuralist feminist. She died of pancreatic cancer on March 10, 2018, at the age of 56 .

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In 2002 Mahmood wrote Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject . In it, she describes the genology of the concept of habit from Aristotle to the Islamic tradition . Her ethnography theorized the activism of women in the contemporary Islamist mosque movement in Cairo . This commitment would not fit into a secular - liberal view of feminist activity and resistance . Instead of using a typical “western” dualism of resistance and domination, however, she suggested evaluating how the activists produce an ethical piety and thus a formation of “agency” - according to Michel Foucault, an ability to act ethically within the framework of subjective norms.

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  • Feminism, the Taliban, and Politics of Counter-Insurgency. with Charles Hirschkind, Anthropological Quarterly 75, Spring 2002, ISSN  0164-2472
  • Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech . With Talal Asad, Wendy Brown and Judith Butler. Fordham University Press, 2013. (First edition published by the University of California Press, 2009).
  • The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject . Princeton University Press, 2005.

Awards

She was the winner of the Victoria Schuck Award 2005 from the American Political Science Association, the Albert Hourani Book Award 2005 from the Middle East Studies Association and the Berlin Prize 2013 from the American Academy in Berlin .

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  1. ↑ a b UC Berkeley anthropology professor Saba Mahmood dies at 56, remembered for contributions to social sciences , The Daily Californian, March 13, 2018
  2. ↑ Saba Mahmood in the database of the University of Berkeley ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 27, 2015, @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / anthropology.berkeley.edu
  3. ^ Saba Mahmood: Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival. Cultural Anthropology February 16, 2001
  4. ^ Saba Mahmood: The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject . Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 25–31, (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mahmood, Saba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION post-structuralist-feminist anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahore
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2018