Visuality and the 'Jihadi-bride' The re-fashioning of desire in the digital age.
This paper examines the controversial figure of the 'Jihadi Bride' through her visual depictions in media discourses where she is associated with danger, conflict and the evil Other. Such depictions often draw heavily on the Orientalist gaze of the Middle East in conflict; its atavism, servitude of...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 186 - 207 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2019
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