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'Explosions and examinations' : growing up female in post-Saddam Iraq

Campbell, Perri and Kelly, Peter 2009, 'Explosions and examinations' : growing up female in post-Saddam Iraq, Journal of youth studies, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 21-38.

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Title 'Explosions and examinations' : growing up female in post-Saddam Iraq
Author(s) Campbell, Perri
Kelly, Peter
Journal name Journal of youth studies
Volume number 12
Issue number 1
Start page 21
End page 38
Publisher Routledge
Place of publication London, England
Publication date 2009
ISSN 1469-9680
1367-6261
Keyword(s) digital spaces
femininity
fields of possibility
practices of the self
post-invasion Iraq
Summary In the aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi civilians have witnessed their country descend into profound and often deadly chaos. HNK and Aunt Najma are two young voices from post-Saddam, post-invasion Iraq who write www-based diaries (blogs) on life in post-invasion Iraq. Through their voices, and via the voices of many other Iraqi bloggers, different fragments of the reality of post-invasion Iraq enter the globalised, unruly, digital spaces of cyberspace and create not only accounts of these realities, but what we will call digital selves. We will identify and discuss the selves that HNK and Aunt Najma practise via the use of Michel Foucault’s later work on the care of the self and governmentality; and we suggest that HNK and Aunt Najma’s digital diaries (blogs) provide a real-time, unfolding, reflexive, and often interactive window into particular life-worlds in post-invasion Iraq, life-worlds that provide glimpses into what it means to grow up female in post-Saddam Iraq.
Notes Available online 13 Feb 2009
Language eng
Field of Research 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality
Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2009, Routledge
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30035210

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