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The Digital Politics of Pain: Exploring Female Voices in Afghanistan

The Digital Politics of Pain: Exploring Female Voices in Afghanistan

Mary Louisa Cappelli
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781522523918|ISBN10: 152252391X|EISBN13: 9781522523925
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch009
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Cappelli, Mary Louisa. "The Digital Politics of Pain: Exploring Female Voices in Afghanistan." Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature, edited by Önder Çakırtaş, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 160-176. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch009

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Cappelli, M. L. (2017). The Digital Politics of Pain: Exploring Female Voices in Afghanistan. In Ö. Çakırtaş (Ed.), Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature (pp. 160-176). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch009

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Cappelli, Mary Louisa. "The Digital Politics of Pain: Exploring Female Voices in Afghanistan." In Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature, edited by Önder Çakırtaş, 160-176. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2391-8.ch009

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Abstract

After 9/11, the upsurge of the Internet and intensification of mass media has provided Afghans with access to a global information highway of new perspectives, narratives, ideas, and images. Global connectivity has likewise brought with it cultural challenges over meaning. Within these digital spaces, the politics of ideological warfare ensue for the battle of representation and signification, which are inevitably interlinked to questions of power and powerlessness. Within this digital space of ideological contestation, I explore the power of the Afghan Women's Writing Project and its ability to empower women to bear witness and share their geographies of pain. Moreover, I demonstrate how AWWP operates as a social media democratizing campaign meticulously employing Western feminist rhetoric to shape Afghan cultural and social systems and subvert opposing Islamic forces that attempt to undermine protections against women and principles of free market democracy.

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