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Department of Politics and International Studies

Mr James H. Sunday

BA Foreign Affairs, Medieval Studies (University of Virginia), MA Political Science- Comparative Politics (The American University in Cairo)

Overview

James H Sunday
Name:
Mr James H. Sunday
Email address:
Address:
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:
Russell Square: College Buildings
Thesis title:
In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Power, Politics, and Participation in Contemporary Egypt
Year of Study:
4
Curriculum Vitae:
Sunday James H - CV May 2012 PDF (pdf; 102kb)
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Biography

My research focuses on state-society relations in Egypt, in which I take an ethnographic approach to revisit conceptions of participation amongst youth in new popular (shaʿbi) quarters of Greater Cairo.  As such, my research interests span Middle East politics and economy, including urban and everyday politics, resistance and mobilisation, informal networks, theories of participation, subject formation, neoliberal governmentality and subjectivity, theories of power, as well as medieval and contemporary history of the region.  Doctoral fieldwork was carried out in three neighbourhoods of Giza: Haram, Boulaq al-Dakroor, and Imbaba.

PhD Affiliations