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Dr Aya Nassar's Outputs (20)

An open letter to the SJTG and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The War on Gaza, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), and a Palestinian literary event (2024)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., Hughes, S., Mason, O., Nassar, A., & Currie, N. P. (2024). An open letter to the SJTG and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): The War on Gaza, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), and a Palestinian literary event. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 45(1), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12527

Cairo Up! Infrastructures of Security and Desire (2024)
Book Chapter
Nassar, A. (2024). Cairo Up! Infrastructures of Security and Desire. In Cairo Securitized Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience (233-246). American University in Cairo Press

Cement (2023)
Digital Artefact
Nassar, A. (2023). Cement. [I-PEEL]

Objects, memories, and storytelling: experiments in narrating ideas of home (2023)
Journal Article
Nassar, A., Madbouly, M., Ezzat, A., Abazeed, A., Abdelrahman Soliman, N., Agha, M., El Khachab, C., Elwakil, A., Mourad, L., & Taha, M. (2023). Objects, memories, and storytelling: experiments in narrating ideas of home. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 27(5-6), 1030-1051. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2023.2254166

How do objects narrate the past, the everyday, and interrogate im/possible futures? How do they undo our ‘ideas of home’? What affects do they gather and what subjectivities and different forms of intimacy do they call into conversation? This compend... Read More about Objects, memories, and storytelling: experiments in narrating ideas of home.

Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Awal, A., Cockayne, D., Greenhough, B., Linz, J., Mazumdar, A., Nassar, A., Pettit, H., Roe, E. J., Ruez, D., Salas Landa, M., Secor, A., & Williams, A. (2023). Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12493

Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneo... Read More about Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.

Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo (2021)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2021). Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo. Geohumanities, 7(2), 455-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.1913436

In this paper, I perform an approach for a material and affective geography of the postcolonial city that is developed from within the spaces of Cairo and its archives. I propose storytelling the city through its geopoetics, where geopoetics emphasiz... Read More about Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo.

Spon End: A Local Guide (2019)
Book
Nieuwenhuis, M., Nassar, A., & Leach, C. (2019). Spon End: A Local Guide. Independent Publishing Network

Feeling (y)our way in the dark: An interview with Jenny Perlin (2019)
Journal Article
Perlin, J., Nieuwenhuis, M., & Nassar, A. (2019). Feeling (y)our way in the dark: An interview with Jenny Perlin. Emotion, Space and Society, 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.100596

The Long Sleepers, also exhibited in part at Simon Preston Gallery, New York (2017), is a long-term artistic project involving 16 mm film, video, performance, and drawings. The current iteration tracks downwards through a sinkhole to discover a caver... Read More about Feeling (y)our way in the dark: An interview with Jenny Perlin.

Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo (2017)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2018). Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo. Contemporary Social Science, 13(3-4), 412-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2017.1418521

This article uses the very materiality of the city, namely its dust, to reflect on the processes of researching and writing about it. By using ‘dust’ as both a material and an imaginative metaphor that assembles architecture, urban space, archives an... Read More about Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo.

‘Being’ in Al-Azhar Park: Public Spaces in Cairo (2013)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2013). ‘Being’ in Al-Azhar Park: Public Spaces in Cairo. The Open Urban Studies Journal, 6(1), 65-74. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874942901306010065

There is a broad literature on public space and landscape and their socio-political construction, though it is not usually linked to the more contentious political theory concept of public sphere. The dual understanding of public space/sphere bears o... Read More about ‘Being’ in Al-Azhar Park: Public Spaces in Cairo.