She is analysing the factors of race and gender in the squatting scene, I am not saying she didn't, but what I meant is she was never subject to this until she became the girlfriend and later wife of a prominent member.
In fact, the nonchalance which she uses to describe "Karima" is an example of something that Egyptian feminist Nawal al Sadaawi has often criticised about women-of-colour from feminist movements in Europe and the United States. A position which assumes that their position in a first-world country can be directly projected onto women of similar ethnicity in African or Asian countries. An anthropologist should know better than to generalise in such a shallow manner.
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That being said, I miss "Karima" I have lost contact with her, which I maintained for years after she was kicked out of her house. I am afraid she might have been deported since at some time she stopped responding to calls and texts. I hope that wherever she is she is doing fine. She is a very smart and resourceful woman. We had many very deep personal conversations about various difficult subjects like sexuality and gender. I was never a lover and she never tried to come on to me in an effort to find a guy to marry her, despite the fact that I had built up a rather good position in society.
The people from the house where she lived and who told her to leave were good friends of mine at the time. I still count them as good people, but what they did with her was wrong in my view. Nazima's story adds insult to injury for no other reason than increasing her "academic capital"
Analysis, yes
She is analysing the factors of race and gender in the squatting scene, I am not saying she didn't, but what I meant is she was never subject to this until she became the girlfriend and later wife of a prominent member.
In fact, the nonchalance which she uses to describe "Karima" is an example of something that Egyptian feminist Nawal al Sadaawi has often criticised about women-of-colour from feminist movements in Europe and the United States. A position which assumes that their position in a first-world country can be directly projected onto women of similar ethnicity in African or Asian countries. An anthropologist should know better than to generalise in such a shallow manner.
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That being said, I miss "Karima" I have lost contact with her, which I maintained for years after she was kicked out of her house. I am afraid she might have been deported since at some time she stopped responding to calls and texts. I hope that wherever she is she is doing fine. She is a very smart and resourceful woman. We had many very deep personal conversations about various difficult subjects like sexuality and gender. I was never a lover and she never tried to come on to me in an effort to find a guy to marry her, despite the fact that I had built up a rather good position in society.
The people from the house where she lived and who told her to leave were good friends of mine at the time. I still count them as good people, but what they did with her was wrong in my view. Nazima's story adds insult to injury for no other reason than increasing her "academic capital"