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   * Foundational exclusions of the public sphere   * Foundational exclusions of the public sphere
   * The possibility of transgressing the boundary of public and private   * The possibility of transgressing the boundary of public and private
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 +===== Tutorial agenda: Steps to the final essay =====
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 +==== Writing your final essay ====
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 +* The rest of this semester is a series of steps to developing your final essay. 
 +* Your presentation on your essay. [[https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/64258/assignments/593074|Book your time slot]].
 +* An essay has an [[:the_quest:building_an_argument|argument for a thesis]]
 +  - In this class, you are making a claim about another scholar's claims: it's a "meta" paper
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 +==== Foucault gives us a "warrant"—let's use it ====
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 +* Question: Why do women of the mosque movement pray (and behave piously)? They don't "have to." No one is making them do it.
 +* Foucault says that ethics is "care of the self"
 +  * Apply this warrant to the ethnographic facts on pages 833, 840, and throughout Mahmood's 2001 article on public piety.
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 +==== What would Mahmood say? ====
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 +* What would be Mahmood's take on disputes about mosques amplifying or turning down the *adhan*?
  
 ===== References and further reading ===== ===== References and further reading =====
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