Sonay, Ali (March 2022). Politics and the Visual in the Middle East and North Africa: An Introduction into the Field (Unpublished). In: Politics and the Visual in the Middle East and North Africa since Arab Uprising. Bern. 15. März 2022.
The Arab uprisings, the Gezi Protests in Turkey and the Green Movement in Iran have been accompanied by an upsurge of cultural manifestations of meaning-making and dissent.
Numerous songs, novels, movies, graffities, and memes have been produced, whereas par-ticularly visual expressions have become iconic. These moments of creativity underscore that these processes of upheaval cannot be contextualized thoroughly by focusing only on formal political trajectories.
This first lecture will therefore firstly provide a thematic contextualization of our series within the overall research agenda of the Institute. Secondly, an introduction will be provided into recent academic debates on the interaction between the political and visual. Finally, the lectures will touch on examples from ongoing research projects at our Institute.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften |
UniBE Contributor: |
Sonay, Ali |
Subjects: |
200 Religion > 290 Other religions 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Ali Sonay |
Date Deposited: |
22 Mar 2023 11:17 |
Last Modified: |
22 Mar 2023 23:28 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Arab Spring Visual Arts Politics and the Visual |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/180482 |
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