Dr amina boubIA
Arts & Culture - Politics & IR - Middle East & North Africa - East & West
academic publications
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Below you will find my publications,
including scientific contributions, public outreach pieces & opinion articles:
Music, Politics and "Organic Artists" during the Arab Spring: Contention vs. Status Quo in Tunisia and Morocco
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Vol. 12 Issue 1, 2019, Special Issue: Reading Popular Music in the Arab Region and in the Diaspora, p. 88-108
More information available here.
‘Krach in der Kulisse’: Aktuelle Musikszene und Gesellschaftspolitischer Wandel in Marokko und Tunesien im Kontext des Arabischen Frühlings
Frankreich-Forum, 2015, p. 221-231
More information available here.
Fractures et renouveau des scènes musicales
au Maroc et en Tunisie
Orient XXI, 13 February 2015
Article available online.
L'humour arabe comme étendard démocratique
Rue89, 20 January 2015
Article published following the so-called "Charlie Hebdo attacks" in Paris.
Available online.
Les festivals de musique au Maroc: Fusions artistiques, cultures globales et pratiques locales
Festivals, Rave Parties, Free Parties: Histoire des Rencontres Musicales Actuelles, en France et à l’Etranger, Camion Blanc, 2012, p. 361-385
More information available here.
Conferences
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Below you will find a list of the conferences I have contributed to so far:
How digital technologies and cultures facilitated the musical revival of Aboul Kacem Chebbi's poem "The will to live" from Tunisia to Morocco, Lebanon, and beyond
23 May 2017
Department of Music, City University, London, UK
As part of the conference “Music, technology and digital cultures in the Middle East and North Africa”.
More information available here.
Cultural policies in the MENA between permissiveness and repression: What autonomy for cultural actors since the Arab Spring?
21 April 2017
Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, London, UK
As part of the conference “Mapping cultural policy in the Arab region”.
More information available here.
Let's rock/rap it! Music as collective action: The case of the Arab Spring
11 October 2016
Middle East Centre, LSE, London, UK
As part of the Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Research Network.
The podcast of my presentation is available here.
Music and politics during the Arab Spring: Contention vs. status quo in Morocco and Tunisia through a re-interpretation of Albert Hirschmann and Antonio Gramsci
8 April 2016
Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, London, UK
As part of the conference "Towards a sociology of popular music in the Arab region".
More information available here.
"Krach in der Kulisse": Aktuelle Musikszene und Gesellschaftspolitischer Wandel in Marokko und Tunesien im Kontext des Arabischen Frühlings
10 December 2014
City library, Saarbrücken, Germany
As part of the conference series “Der Arabische Frühling auf dem Prüfstand”, organised by the France Centre and the Department for Latin languages of Saarland University, in partnership with the City of Saarbrücken.
More information available here.
Inputs on Europe and the Mediterranean: A comparative approach of cultural movements and policies through music festivals in Morocco
31 May 2013
Columbia Global Centre, Paris, France
As part of a workshop on “European and Mediterranean studies” organised by Columbia University and the Central European University.
More information available here.
Le prisme révélateur du Printemps arabe et du Mouvement du 20 Février au Maroc: Une scène musicale divisée au cœur du politique
15 October 2012
Centre for International Studies (CERI), SciencesPo, Paris, France
As part of the conference “Les sciences sociales de l’international: Penser les articulations entre théorie, méthode et terrain”.
More information available here.
Der Arabische Frühling und der politische Dissens in der marokkanischen Musikszene
19 May 2012
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, Germany
As part of the conference for PhD fellows of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Neue Produktionsformen des Politischen in der arabischen Welt am Beispiel der Musikfestivals in Marokko
19 May 2012
Kassel University, Kassel, Germany
As part of yearly conference organised at Kassel University by the Graduate Centre of the Department for Social sciences (KIGG).
Die arabische Jugend und die Protestbewegungen: Ein Feldstudienbericht über Musikfestivals in Marokko
17 August 2011
Bad Bevensen, Germany
As part of the Summer school for the fellows of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
L’enjeu politique des festivals de musique au Maroc
2 February 2011
Jacques Berque Centre, Rabat, Morocco
As part of the research network “Expressions musicales contemporaines dans le cadre urbain: entre profane et sacré”.
More information available here.
Les festivals de musique au Maroc
22 November 2010
Centre for International Studies (CERI), SciencesPo, Paris, France
As part of the conference “Culture jeune et musique alternative dans le monde arabe”.
