Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements : Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations / Christoph Gunther, Simone Pfeifer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunther, Christoph, editor.

Pfeifer, Simone, editor.

Language:

English

Genre:

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Explores the use of images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with them Fosters theoretical approaches to audiovisuality in the context of 'propagandistic' imagery Points to strategies and logics of appropriation within and around Jihadi audiovisuality, such as humour, re-enactments and memetic forms of cultural resistance Considers cultural and aesthetic expressions that evolve in response to Jihadi media output Presents empirically grounded research, combined with historical, multi-modal, rhetorical, ethnomusicological and digital audio-visual analysis and interpretations Case studies include: an exploration of: staged violence in IS productions; the appropriation of IS's nashīd Ṣalīl al-Ṣawārim in digital contexts; the responses by social workers and former supporters of jihadi groups and movements; and how researchers themselves are part of the entanglements caused by politicisation and securitisation of Islam ISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts. Divided into four thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how, in turn, political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices, the authors shed light on how religious actors, artists, civil society activists, global youth, political forces, security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct, reinforce, defy or oppose the messages.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 105244

ISBN:

9781474467537

OCLC:

1242107182

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access