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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464863103321

Autore

Segall Kimberly Wedeven

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8156-5256-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

320.9567

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?