...This chapter introduces the reader to the theoretical framework of the book. It examines the place and agency of young people in contemporary Egypt by relying on the political economy of youth approach. It analyzes the relationship between political economy, authoritarianism and young people’s...

...This chapter explores articulations between pilgrimage, mobility, and political economy. It compares pilgrimage not just to tourism and heritage but also to forms of migration, refugeehood, and diaspora. The chapter discusses whether and how pilgrimage mobilities link to neoliberal understandings...

...Applying a political economy lens to image production suggests that the US film industry, namely, Hollywood, prioritizes financial considerations over racial justice and equity. Decisions made in the production and marketing processes aim to minimize financial risks, but they often limit...

... representation in Turkey's political economy. It begins with an overview of Islamic economics and the politics of development in the Turkish context, along with the effects of globalization on the Turkish economy. It then considers the GM's collection of investment capital via a rationalized system of religious...

... capitalist development. Queer theory is often considered or condemned as presentist and inattentive to political economy; Kessler’s queer theory is a corrective, focalizing labor politics, social reproduction, and materialist fantasies of whiteness. California capitalism Chinese immigrants gold Kearney...

...This chapter discusses the political economy of Muslim politics that gave rise to the Gülen Movement's (GM) collective mobilization. It situates the GM in its proper milieu by explaining how Turkey's Kemalist regime led a mid-century development project that steered Turkish society towards a very...

... plays a central role in a grand effort to increase “the Muslim share” in Turkey's political economy and to rationalize (marketize) Turkish Islam. Alevi alevism in Turkey Islamic activism as approach to studying Muslim politics Kemalism Kurds in Turkey Laiklik laicism Milli Görüş Hareketi National...

...This chapter discusses the main contribution of the book to the current scholarly debates on the political economy of youth approach. This debate has been mainly centered on the democratic, developed global north with scant attention to authoritarian regimes in the south. The chapter argues...

...For this personal voice essay, I share a story about my first time performing as a drag queen in a small-town Southern gay bar. I offer insights into the political economy of drag performance and further outline interactions and relationships with other individuals at the drag show to provide...

...This concluding chapter makes the general case for grounding a twenty-first-century critical Latina/o urbanism in something provisionally called the “cultural political economy” in an attempt to resolve lingering theoretical tensions between socioeconomic (structural) and culture-based (semiotic...

...? Which litigants should be provided lawyers or experts? What procedural rules can be crafted to respond? And who pays for courts themselves? These questions are at the core of twenty-first century procedure, which has to take into account principles of equality and the political economy that produced...

...This chapter discusses how domestic, regional, and global concerns intersect in Chinese thinking and mutually affect the policy choices leaders make. It starts with an examination of Chinese domestic political economy and then moves outward through the Asian region to the global economy...

... classes. The chapter provides a historical narrative of the construction of the political economy of authoritarianism in Egypt from the Nasser regime until today. It demonstrates how the political economy of authoritarianism has led to a securitized neoliberal system in Egypt, which penetrates young...

...This book examines the place and agency of youth in the contemporary phase of Egypt’s political transformations, in the context of narrating and analyzing the relationships among political economy, authoritarianism, and citizens’ daily struggles. What is the impact of the political economy...

... to contemporary historical discourses, the chapter discusses the political economy of scholarly works on African women. It then analyzes Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí's argument, advanced in The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, that all “Western” women have a preset...

... American history in relation to both world history and transnational cultural studies. It then explores how discussions of gender and sexuality provide inspiration for integrating the changing face of the political economy with a critical aspect of gender history: the shifting nature of masculinity...