The Martyrs' Revolutions: The Role of Martyrs in the Arab Spring

Buckner, Elizabeth; Khatib, Lina

doi:10.1080/13530194.2014.918802

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“…Our comparative analysis points to broader patterns in the increasing importance of mediated forms of death and mourning in digital activist cultures. Indeed, these practices relate to several grassroot initiatives, like the Black Lives Matter movement among others, where popular representations of martyrs (Buckner and Khatib 2014) or icons (Mortensen 2017) are resurrected and mobilised in the face of oppressive policies or regimes. The similarities within these ongoing trends and their reliance on digital media technologies highlight the emergence of global templates that formalise the ways in which visual acts of resistance operate across contemporary activist cultures.…”

Section: Posthumous Symbols and Their Contentions Within Trans Activismmentioning

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Constructing Injustice Symbols in Contemporary Trans Rights Activisms

Myles¹,

Lewis²

2019

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In this paper, we investigate the role that mourning and commemoration practices play in contemporary trans rights activism. Drawing from visual politics, digital activist culture, as well as media and communication, we analyse how trans rights movements construct injustice symbols that are used for sociopolitical mobilisation and expression. We contend that these symbols are constructed through shared communicative practices, which produce and circulate visuals that possess important memetic qualities (pictures, slogans, hashtags, graffiti, posters, etc.). To do so, we analyse three case studies where the unjust death of a trans person was collectively mobilised for political purposes: Jennifer Laude (Philippines, 1988-2014), Hande Kader (Turkey, 1993-2016), and Marsha P. Johnson (United States of America, 1945-1992). While each case study points to local or national specificities, our comparative analysis also underlines transnational trends in the production of posthumous visuals within contemporary trans rights activism. We conclude by addressing the contentions over the construction of trans symbols who inherently possess intersectional identities.

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Section: Posthumous Symbols and Their Contentions Within Trans Activismmentioning

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Constructing Injustice Symbols in Contemporary Trans Rights Activisms

Myles¹,

Lewis²

2019

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“…Indeed, martyrdom has become the recurrent reference to label the death of young people at the hands of authoritarian and repressive regimes during revolutionary processes. As a result, a new martyrdom with a distinct category of martyrs, unique contents, and exceptional forms of narrative for memorialization and commemoration breaking with the common previous models of martyrdom, has come to light (Buckner & Khatib, 2014;Ghannam, 2015;Gilman, 2015;Mittermaier, 2015).…”

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“…By analysing the portrayal of martyrs in the recent Egyptian, Tunisian, and Syrian revolutions, Buckner and Khatib (2014) find that the martyrdom produced by the Arab uprisings has three unusual aspects:…”

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“…In the third section, I first review the phenomenon of martyrdom in Muslim contexts before the Arab uprising, alluding to examples of memorialization narratives in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon, and to the recent iniquitous correlation of this phenomenon with terrorism, suicide and 'martyrdom operations'. I then argue that since the revolutionary movements of 2010-2011, an innovative scholarship (Buckner & Khatib, 2014;Ghannam, 2015;Gilman, 2015;Mittermaier, 2015) about martyrdom in Arab countries has been established, where the ordinary people assign the martyr label to citizens who have been victims of regime violence.…”

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Legitimizing child martyrdom? The emergence of a new political subjectivity in revolutionary Egypt

Diana

2019

Mediterranean Politics

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The 25 January 2011 revolution in Egypt was the stage upon which both the people and new political subjectivities made their appearance, under the slogan 'we, the people'. Regardless of social class, gender, or age, the Egyptian people were affected by the revolutionary events as they experienced a revolution of the self. Using the theoretical framework of childhood studies and adapting a macrostructural approach, this paper explores how the process of memorialization of children killed during the protests and clashes of 2011-2012 ascribes them the status of martyrs of the revolution, like adults. In so doing, the paper intends to demonstrate that the recognized child martyrdom proves that children represent a new political subjectivity group which has emerged in the Egyptian revolutionary context.

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“…There, the focus is on the martyr as agent rather than victim. The latter trope figures more centrally in representations of martyrdom in Lebanon (where the Karbala myth is arguably even more assertive than in Iran – see Norton, 2005) and Palestine (Buckner and Khatib, 2014). In the Iranian case, the martyr is in charge of his or her destiny.…”

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When everywhere is Karbala: Murals, martyrdom and propaganda in Iran

Rolston

2017

Memory Studies

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In Tehran, murals depicting men who died in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran–Iraq war of 1980–1988 are ubiquitous. The murals represent an exercise in state propaganda, serving to remind citizens that these men died not simply for the nation but for Islam; they are martyrs. This message resonates with deeply held religious views in Iran. There is constant reference to the Battle of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Hossein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. This is seen to prefigure the revolt of the people against the Shah in 1979, the defence of the Revolution against Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and, furthermore, the claim of the Iranian opposition that the ideals of the Islamic Revolution have been distorted by politicised clerics. In propagating the myth of Karbala, the murals function to control the masses, bolster elite power and marginalise opposition to that power.

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The Martyrs' Revolutions: The Role of Martyrs in the Arab Spring

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Constructing Injustice Symbols in Contemporary Trans Rights Activisms

Constructing Injustice Symbols in Contemporary Trans Rights Activisms

Legitimizing child martyrdom? The emergence of a new political subjectivity in revolutionary Egypt

When everywhere is Karbala: Murals, martyrdom and propaganda in Iran

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