Cultural trauma and its impact on the Iraqi Assyrian experience of identity

Kassem, Niveen; Jackson, Murray

doi:10.1080/13504630.2020.1762557

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“…In social disasters and emergencies, a community can find these cultural and emotional processes in its cultural trauma. Kassem and Jackson (2020) note that collective identity can also result from a cultural trauma resulting from a disaster. Cultural trauma takes place “when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness” (Alexander, 2016, p. 3).…”

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Calculative practices, social movements and the rise of collective identity: how #istayathome mobilised a nation

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Tullio

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PurposeThe Italian government addressed the first wave of its COVID-19 outbreak with a series of social restrictions and calculative practices, all branded with the slogan #istayathome. The hashtag quickly went viral, becoming both a mandate and a mantra and, as the crisis played out, we witnessed the rise of the Italian social movement #istayathome. This study examines how the government's calculative practices led to #istayathome and the constituents that shaped this social movement.Design/methodology/approachThe authors embrace social movement theory and the collective identity perspective to examine #istayathome as a collective action and social movement. Using passive netnography, text mining and interpretative text analysis enhanced by machine learning, the authors analysed just over 350,000 tweets made during the period March to May 2020, each brandishing the hashtag #istayathome.FindingsThe #istayathome movement gained traction as a response to the Italian government's call for collective action. Thus, people became an active part of mobilising collective responsibility, enhancing the government's plans. A collective identity on the part of the Italian people sustained the mass mobilisation, driven by cohesion, solidarity and a deep cultural trauma from COVID-19's dramatic effects. Popular culture and Italy's long traditions also helped to form the collective identity of #istayathome. This study found that calculative practices acted as a persuasive technology in forming this collective identity and mobilising people's collective action. Numbers stimulated the cognitive, moral and emotional connections of the social ties shaping collective identity and responsibility. Thus, through collective identity, calculative practices indirectly influenced mass social behaviors and the social movement.Originality/valueThis study offers a novel theoretical perspective and empirical knowledge to explain how government power affects people's culture and everyday life. It unveils the sociological drivers that mobilise collective behaviors and enriches the accounting literature on the effects of calculative practices in managing emergencies. The study contributes to theory by providing an understanding of how calculative practices can influence collective behaviors and can be used to construct informal networks that go beyond the government's traditional formalities.

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Calculative practices, social movements and the rise of collective identity: how #istayathome mobilised a nation

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Tullio

Tamburro³

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“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights

Philips

2022

Am J Cult Sociol

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Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities

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2024

Meridians

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The author’s work spans the disciplinary boundaries of political science, Middle East studies, Indigenous studies, and their subfields. Broadly situated within critical theoretical bodies of knowledge, she focuses on an Indigenous nation in what is today known as Iraq. Her work is grounded within particular and fragmented locations that blur various lines and multiple layers of coloniality. This article offers a critical reflection of the invisibility in working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the structural imperatives of the academy. It takes up each of these themes by examining the fields of international relations and Iraqi studies to show how the story of Assyrians is invisible or unintelligible across these fields of political science and Middle East studies. Moreover, what the Assyrian story tells us about these disciplines and the multiplicity of coloniality (Patel 2019) is also rendered invisible. Despite the absence of Assyrians from Indigenous studies, the author sees this field as a site from which to potentially globalize Indigeneities. Specifically, she uses Indigenous feminism to construct a more nuanced framework into Assyrian histories, a framework that uses the lens of colonialism, land theft, erasure, and genocide to reframe the Assyrian experience as a remnant of the colonial global order.

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Cultural trauma and its impact on the Iraqi Assyrian experience of identity

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Calculative practices, social movements and the rise of collective identity: how #istayathome mobilised a nation

Calculative practices, social movements and the rise of collective identity: how #istayathome mobilised a nation

“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights

Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities

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