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Mustafa, Balsam (2023) All about Iraq : re-modifying older slogans and chants in Tishreen [October] Protests. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58 (3). pp. 401-420. doi:10.1177/00219096211069644 ISSN 0021-9096.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096211069644
Abstract
This paper analyses five main slogans and chants performed during the first 3 months of Iraq’s 2019 Tishreen [October] protests. It aims to trace their origin to examine the transformation in the narratives created by each version. Drawing on a social approach to narrative and a social semiotic multimodal approach to communication, I treat slogans and chants as an evolving genre and performance, capable of triggering, constructing, and negotiating a different set of narratives in each adaptation. Such narratives arguably determine their impact. Unlike earlier versions, Tishreen chants and slogans succeeded in conjuring up collective and cross-sectarian narratives that could challenge master political narratives and heighten an Iraqi identity in the first place. It would, therefore, be hard to erase them from memory.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Protest movements -- Iraq, Language and languages -- Political aspects, Slogans -- Iraq | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Asian and African Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0021-9096 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 58 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 401-420 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/00219096211069644 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Mustafa B. All About Iraq: Re-Modifying Older Slogans and Chants in Tishreen [October] Protests. Journal of Asian and African Studies. January 2022. doi:10.1177/00219096211069644 Copyright © 2022 (Sage). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Additionally, please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the Contribution on the SAGE Journals website (http://journals.sagepub.com). | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 February 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 February 2022 |
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