Performing democracy in Iraq and South Africa : gender, media, and resistance

Performing democracy in Iraq and South Africa : gender, media, and resistance /

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...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Segall, Kimberly Wedeven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Democracy > Social aspects > Iraq.
Democracy > Social aspects > South Africa.
Performance > Political aspects > Iraq.
Performance > Political aspects > South Africa.
Mass media > Political aspects > Iraq.
Mass media > Political aspects > South Africa.
Performance technology > Political aspects > Iraq.
Performance technology > Political aspects > South Africa.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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?

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