Economies of the Male Body

Carl Rommel (Edited by) is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. His publications include Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics (2021).Karin Ahlberg (Edited by) is a researcher of social anthropology at Stockholm University. She is also the PI of two research projects: "The Environmental Afterlife of the Suez Canal" and "BIOrdinary: Biodiversity Dilemmas in Ordinary Places."Samuli Schielke (Afterword by) is a research fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of numerous publications including Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011 (2015) and Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States (AUC Press, 2020).

• Introduction: Economies of the Male Body in Egypt Carl Rommel and Karin Ahlberg1. Exhausting the Male Body: A Magic Reserve and Shock Absorber Between Social Expectations and Capitalist PrecarityKarin Ahlberg2. Men behind the Scenes: The Operationalization of Care in Egypt’s Visual Media ProductionMariz Kelada3. The Intricacies of Disease Professionalism in Egypt: Diseased Bodies, Empowered SoulsMustafa Abdalla4. Enhanced Sexualities: The Male Body in Egypt at the Age of Viagra Youssef Ramez Boktor5. Weeping, Poetry Writing, and Bible Reciting: Men-Pigeon Relations on Egypt’s RooftopsNoha Fikry6. All Work and No Play?: Economic Pressures and Bodily Pleasures on and off the Football Pitch Carl RommelPostscript by Samuli Schielke Notes on Contributors