| Description |
1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Radio songs, Kurdish stories, videos: politics of healing after ethnic cleansing -- Televised war, poetry, and Shiite women: a case study of generation gaps -- Sectarian media, 9 women, and the stage : transregional identities -- Baghdad blogs and gender sites : an Iraqi spring for youth culture? -- Media and Iran's forgotten spring : intergenerational politics in persepolis -- Guerrilla fighters, televised testimonies : democratic miracle or African spring? -- 9/11 media : gendered nationalism beyond Islamic/Jewish borders -- Bewitched democracies : a ritual spring for youth culture? |
| Summary |
How do individuals in the Middle East and Africa use blogs and performances to protest injustice and to voice their desire for democracy? Reflecting twenty years of research and experience after working with guerilla fighters in the Kurdish region of Iraq, refugees in Iran, interreligious groups in Morocco, and former political prisoners in South Africa, Segall offers a groundbreaking view of how groups use cultural forms to navigate memories of violation and to create new political identities. Unlike global media s shifting and often shallow spotlight on the protests of the Arab Spring, this book shows how communities are performing creative, economic, resistant, and even reconciliatory claims of rights amid contentious and gendered territories. By analyzing innovative sites, ranging from a blog of street protests to performance of bewithcing democracy, Performing Democracy attends to local venues and creative technology. With its impressive diversity of women's stories that are often forgotten by the press, this book suggests generational and hybrid protests voicing trauma, seeking change. --Amazon.com |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Social aspects -- Iraq
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Democracy -- Social aspects -- South Africa
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Performance -- Political aspects -- Iraq
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Performance -- Political aspects -- South Africa
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- Iraq
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- South Africa
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Performance technology -- Political aspects -- Iraq
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Performance technology -- Political aspects -- South Africa
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Democracy -- Social aspects
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Mass media -- Political aspects
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Iraq
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013029840 |
| ISBN |
9780815652564 |
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0815652569 |
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