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" Communicating history: The mnemonic battles of the 2011 Arab uprisings "
Omar Al-Ghazzi
Kraidy, Marwan M.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804057
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TL48870
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1811452761; 10134978
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Guan, Binbin
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Communicating history: The mnemonic battles of the 2011 Arab uprisings\ Omar Al-GhazziKraidy, Marwan M.
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University of Pennsylvania
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Communication
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2016
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281
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Committee members: Yang, Guobin; Zelizer, Barbie
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-92911-8
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This dissertation explores how history has been communicated during the 2011 Arab uprisings and their aftermath (2011-2015). It is a study about the struggle for finding a historically-grounded revolutionary narrative for an assumed Arab body politic that is torn apart by multiple political forces. I analyze popular communicative practices that invoke history and argue that they have played a crucial role in propagating a narrative that portrayed the uprisings as a collective Arab revolution and awakening. The strategic claim that protestors were making history, I suggest, paved the way for expressing hopes about the future through invoking past history. From 2011 to 2015 in the Arab world, contentious debates about politics were often expressed through a language and a symbolism about history. These controversies were projected towards specific symbols and tropes, which evoked condensed cultural meanings, and which became subsequently used to communicate political aspirations and to assert power in the present and onto the future. In this dissertation, I analyze four case-studies that demonstrate the centrality of collective memory in articulations of identity and politics in the contemporary Arab world.
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Communication; Middle Eastern Studies
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Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Activism;Arab Spring;Arab politics;Collective memory
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Kraidy, Marwan M.
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CommunicationUniversity of Pennsylvania
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