Why Muslim Women and Smartphones

Karen Waltorp is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Foreword by Sarah Pink. Acknowledgements. Introduction: al-Harakat. Image List. Playlist. A. Smartphone Affordances of the Smartphone. Touch and Crucial Connectivity. Secrets and Smartphones a. Cyborg Cyborg Ethics for an Accountable Multi-modal Anthropology. Kitab al-Manazir and Cyborg Optics. Parallax as a Harakat Move and a Speaking Nearby B. Hanan al-Noerrebro: Affections for the Neighborhood An Urban Habitat - a Typical Blaagaarden Girl. The Ghetto, the Square, Behind the Curtain. Facebook Flirt: The Stabbing of Taher b. What's in a Field Enacting Hybridity. Harakat and Composite Habitus. Perceiving Affordances C. Hijab, Desire, Social Control Entanglements of Free Speech and Veiled Women. 'Playing with the Scarf is Playing with Our Religion'. Modest/Desire. Orientalism, Freedom, State Control. Smartphone as Valve and Part-revolution? Freedom/Choice. So Muslim Women Need Saving? D. Dreams and the Imaginal realm – Alam al-Mîthal The Kidnapping. Moral/Laws. Sab'r enacted and shared in social media. Images and Mirrors. Imaginal realm and Virtuality. Composite Habitus. The Flow of (Mirror) Images and Future-Making. Bibliography. Index.