The voice of the people? Echoes and quotations in the revolutionary slogans in Egypt

Carle, Zoé

doi:10.1080/13629395.2019.1673417

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“…Many scholars view them as an act of collective embodied performance (e.g. Aulich, 2019;Butler, 2015;Carle, 2021;Colla, 2013;Ismail, 2011). Performances constitute the 'aesthetics of the protests' that cannot be detached from politics (Aulich, 2019).…”

Section: Tishreen Slogans/chants As An Act Of Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Slogans and chants are often used interchangeably in the literature (e.g. Carle, 2021; Colla, 2013; Nassar and Al-Harahsheh, 2020). Despite the overlap between the two, a distinction is still necessary, especially in the Iraqi context, for reasons I will explain later.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…But what are the sources of chants and slogans? Carle (2021: 16) maintains that performances draw from a shared ‘heritage and a popular culture’ that includes songs, religious texts, older slogans, political speeches, and so on. Since the majority of the Iraqi protestors were Shia Muslims, most of their chants were inspired by Shia-centred slogans and Ashura religious rituals.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Chants, thus, represent ‘historically grounded performances’ (Tilly, 2008: 4) that require repetition over time to become recurrent. For a slogan or a chant to resonate among people, it must be familiar and easy to recognise, recall, and memorise (Carle, 2021) but can always be modified and amended to fit new contexts (Colla, 2013). Chants of religious or political nature were familiar to Iraqi protestors, who managed to revise and modify them by removing any sectarian or former Baathist regime references, replacing them with new and positive vocabularies that changed the narratives linked with their sources.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several scholars have analysed slogans raised during the Arab Spring uprisings, particularly the Egyptian Revolution (e.g. Colla, 2013;Lahlali, 2014;Carle, 2021). Al-Haq and Hussein (2012) have studied four hundred slogans collected from different protests squares in Tunisia and Egypt, drawing on a sociolinguistic approach.…”

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All About Iraq: Re-Modifying Older Slogans and Chants in Tishreen [October] Protests

Mustafa

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This paper analyses five main slogans and chants performed during the first 3 months of Iraq’s 2019 Tishreen [October] protests. It aims to trace their origin to examine the transformation in the narratives created by each version. Drawing on a social approach to narrative and a social semiotic multimodal approach to communication, I treat slogans and chants as an evolving genre and performance, capable of triggering, constructing, and negotiating a different set of narratives in each adaptation. Such narratives arguably determine their impact. Unlike earlier versions, Tishreen chants and slogans succeeded in conjuring up collective and cross-sectarian narratives that could challenge master political narratives and heighten an Iraqi identity in the first place. It would, therefore, be hard to erase them from memory.

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