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Territorial imagination: social media, visual images, and affect in Iranian Kurdistan
Thousands of Iranian Kurds took to the streets in October 2014 in solidarity with the Syrian Kurds’ resistance against the so-called Islamic State (IS), and again in September 2017 to support Iraqi Kurds’ independence referendum. The demonstrations were momentous, given their size, scope, and defiance of the Iranian state’s security measures aimed at suppressing manifestations of Kurdish identity on the streets and on social media. This article examines the use of social media during the demonstrations. Specifically, it investigates how Iranian Kurds utilized social media and visual images to situate the demonstrations within the larger Kurdish resistance in the region and frame the Kurdish movement spatially. Deploying digital methods and poststructural discourse analysis, the article examines a small set of social media posts and draws on semi-structured interviews to deepen and contextualize the analysis. Findings illustrate the role of affect and emotion in enabling bodies to connect, resist the state’s securitized territoriality, and produce a particular territorial imagination – one that foregrounds Kurdistan as a meaningful non-state geopolitical construct. The article emphasizes the mutually constitutive relations between the affective-emotional and the discursive-symbolic by foregrounding users’ agency in connecting with social media and visual images. Highlighting the production of minoritized territorial imaginations, the paper contributes to the literature on social media, visuality, and space.
期刊介绍:
Cultural Geographies has successfully built on Ecumene"s reputation for innovative, thoughtful and stylish contributions. This unique journal of cultural geographies will continue publishing scholarly research and provocative commentaries. The latest findings on the cultural appropriation and politics of: · Nature · Landscape · Environment · Place space The new look Cultural Geographies reflects the evolving nature of its subject matter. It is both a sub-disciplinary intervention and an interdisciplinary forum for the growing number of scholars or practitioners interested in the ways that people imagine, interpret, perform and transform their material and social environments.