Segall, Kimberly Wedeven.

Performing democracy in Iraq and South Africa : gender, media, and resistance / [electronic resource] Kimberly Wedeven Segall. - First edition. - 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

9780815652564 (e-book)


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.

JQ1849.A91 / S44 2013

320.9567