عنوان

The Vernacular Discourse of the 'Arab Spring:' An Analysis of the Visual, the Embodied, and the Textual Rhetorics of the Karama Revolution

Number

TL48008

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Vernacular Discourse of the 'Arab Spring:' An Analysis of the Visual, the Embodied, and the Textual Rhetorics of the Karama Revolution

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Calafell, Bernadette M.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Denver

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

146

Text of Note

Committee members: Hao, Richie; Hicks, Darrin; Thomspon, Margaret

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-28567-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Human Communications

Body granting the degree

University of Denver

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

The Vernacular Discourse of the 'Arab Spring' is a project that bridges the divide between the East and the West by offering new readings to Arab subjectivities. Through an analysis of the 'Arab Spring' through the lens of vernacular discourse, it challenges the Euro-Americo-centric legacies of Orientalism in Western academia and the new wave of extremism in the Arab world by offering alternative representations of Arab bodies and subjectivities. To offer this new reading of the 'Arab Spring,' it explores the foundations of critical rhetoric as a theory and a practice and argues for a turn towards a critical vernacular discourse. The turn towards critical vernacular discourse is important as it urges the analyses of different artifacts produced by marginalized groups in order to understand their perspectives that have largely been foreclosed in traditional cultural studies research. Building on embodied/performative critical rhetoric, the vernacular discourses of the Arab revolutionary body examines other forms of knowledge productions that are not merely textual; more specifically, through data gathered in the Lhbib Bourguiba, Tunisia. This analysis of the political revolutionary body unveils the complexity underlining the discussion around issues of identity, agency and representation in the Middle East and North Africa, and calls for a critical study towards these issues in the region beyond the binary approach that has been practiced and applied by academics and media analysts. Hence, by analyzing vernacular discourse, this research locates a method of examining and theorizing the dialectic between agency, citizenry, and subjectivity through the study of how power structure is recreated and challenged through the use of the vernacular in revolutionary movements, as well as how marginalized groups construct their own subjectivities through the use of vernacular discourse. Therefore, highlighting the political prominence of evaluating the Arab Spring as a vernacular discourse is important in creating new ways of understanding communication in postcolonial/neocolonial settings.

Communication; Middle Eastern Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Arab spring;Graffiti;Vernacular;Vernacular discourse

Ciplak, Bilal

Calafell, Bernadette M.

Subdivision

Human Communications

University of Denver

Call Number

1629467922; 3641975

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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