Laura Menin’s ethnography focuses on young women living in the low-income and lower-middle-class neighborhoods of a midsized town in Central Morocco, far from the overt influence of city life. At the heart of the book, Menin draws upon ideas of “love” as an ethnographic object and source of theoretical examination.
She demonstrates that love, as a complex cultural and historical phenomenon shaped through intersecting socioeconomic and political developments, is crucial in thinking through generational changes and debates in Morocco and the Middle East more broadly. What is at stake in the quest for love, she argues, is not only the making of gendered selves and intimate relationships, but also the imagination of social and political life. Read more
About the speaker
Laura Menin is a research associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. She has published numerous articles in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Contemporary Levant, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
29 April 2025
16h00 – 18h00 (GMT +1)
Join us in person
Auditorium 1 Jan Broeckx
Faculty of Arts
Blandijnberg 2
9000 Gent
Directions
This book presentation is part of the Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series
Organised by
Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies Middle East Studies at Ghent University
Co-organised by
CARAM – Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality
CRCG – Centre for Research on Culture and Gender
