Please, Come In: Furniture and National Identity in Postcolonial Egypt (1952-1981)

请进来：后殖民埃及的家具和民族认同（1952-1981）

• 批准号: 2879593
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sussex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2879593
• 关键词: Please; Come; Furniture; National; Identity

n 1952, a military coup d'état overthrew the monarchy, declared independence from British occupation, and established Egypt as a republic. The years that followed were formative to a new national identity, the broad outlines of which are still lived today. This research will investigate the formation and practice of postcolonial Egyptian identity during the Nasser and Sadat eras by studying the intimate and material world of domestic furniture. The research will be the first to engage with the topic from a bottom-up approach centralising the role of ordinary Egyptians -specially women- in the historic narrative of postcolonial nationalism. This interdisciplinary project draws together the home, material culture, and design history to question how national identity was lived through everyday practices inside Egyptian homes. The impact of this research extends beyond academia as its findings will be particularly relevant to contemporary narratives of identity in Egypt and the region.

1952年，军事政变推翻了君主制，宣布脱离英国占领，并确立了埃及为共和国。随后的几年是一种新的民族身份，其广泛的轮廓至今仍然存在。这项研究将通过研究家庭家具的私密和物质世界，研究纳赛尔和萨达特时代期间后殖民埃及身份的形成和实践。这项研究将是第一个从自下而上的方法中参与该主题的研究，从而集中了普通埃及人在后殖民民族主义的历史叙事中的作用，尤其是女性。这个跨学科的项目将家庭，物质文化和设计历史汇集在一起​​，质疑民族认同是如何在埃及房屋内的每天实践中生活的。这项研究的影响范围超出了学术界，因为其发现将与埃及和该地区身份的当代叙事特别相关。