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The Minoritized Yazidi Body as a Signifier
This paper reads the testimonies of Yazidi women who survived their slavery at the hands of ISIS (DAESH) to understand how this ‘minoritized’ body, a term coined by Arjun Appadurai, has become a worldwide signifier. Due to the circulation of images and technologies, the testimonies of those women wh...
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| Published in: | Middle East - Topics & Arguments |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2020
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| Online Access: | Online Access |
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| Summary: | This paper reads the testimonies of Yazidi women who survived their slavery at the hands of ISIS (DAESH) to understand how this ‘minoritized’ body, a term coined by Arjun Appadurai, has become a worldwide signifier. Due to the circulation of images and technologies, the testimonies of those women who survived have become the only means that allows visibility; yet, the visibility of the violated minoritized body is a fact that still signifies power and instills worldwide horror. The paper attempts to understand how the minoritized individual body has become a body politic, onto which power relations are played out and where several discourses intersect. |
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| DOI: | 10.17192/meta.2020.14.8257 |