Miriyam Aouragh
Biographic Data
| ID | 655734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriyam Aouragh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriyam |
| FAMILY NAME | Aouragh |
| SIGNATURE | AOURAGH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9675-053X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Digital illusions, political delusions
Debates about digital technologies absorbing old political conflicts have intensified in recent years. In an ebb and flow between optimistic promise and pessimistic anxiety, discussions regarding the transformative abilities of technology include cyber warfare; digital activism during the 2011 Arab uprisings and the Black Lives Matter movement; the impact of ‘fake news’ on elections; and more recently the domination of Artificial Intelligence. Th…
Syrians know their way—from visual memory making to digital testimonies
In 2023, a decade after the 2011–2013 Syrian uprising, many had forgotten the country’s revolutionary struggle. Then, a year later, Bashar Al-Assad was ousted just as suddenly as the 2011 revolts had arisen. This article investigates how we remember, recount and mediate events. It does so by examining the way different features of digital visual media produced by the art collective Al Sha’b Al Suri Aref Tarikh (ASSAT) (“Syrian people know their w…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World
In the Arab world, a region undergoing distressing setbacks in social movements and the painful defeats that emanate from counterrevolution, the issues of activism and gender are important, not least where these issues intersect with the question of media and mediation. Insights into the material realities, dependencies, and possibilities of the spaces and tools used by women and their organizations and a critique of the persistence of ideologica…
From Erasure to Restoration
A set of rediscovered revolutionary posters by the Reprint Collective (which was presented as part of Documenta fifteen) in Brussels provided an incredibly moving window into times past. Notwithstanding how the events addressed by those political artefacts now lie in the historical past, the revolutionary reverberations of the posters remain something to treasure. They bring to life political causes that underline the importance of radical solida…
Towards a theory of radical kinship
This is an abridged and edited version of the speech given by the author in the panel on ‘The influence of A. Sivanandan’s ideas’ at the conference ‘New circuits of anti-racism’ at King’s College London in October 2022. It follows on from her seminal 2019 article (in Race & Class 61.2, ‘“White privilege”: shortcuts to anti-racism’) which drew on Sivanandan’s ‘RAT and the degradation of black struggle’, his critique of essentialising blackness and…
The extractive infrastructures of contact tracing apps
The COVID-19 pandemic will go down in history as a major crisis, with calls for debt moratoriums that are expected to have gruesome effects in the Global South. Another tale of this crisis that would come to dominate COVID-19 news across the world was a new technological application: the contact tracing apps. In this article, we argue that both accounts – economic implications for the Global South and the ideology of techno-solutionism – are clos…
Making and Shaping a Moroccan Left
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
White privilege' and shortcuts to anti-racism
By unpacking the way in which the concept of 'white privilege' is taking over as a shortcut in the analysis of racism, this article assesses its use in anti-racist movements. Using the author's experiences as both an academic and an activist of colour in the Netherlands, it focuses on two schisms that are emerging in social movements. The first schism pits class-based against race-based analyses. The second schism is a questioning of solidarity p…
Digital Anthropology
This entry examines how the internet has shaped the development of an important subdiscipline occasionally termed “online anthropology,” “cyber‐anthropology,” or “anthropology 2.0” and now broadly known as “digital anthropology.” This subdiscipline considers the presence of the internet to be an organic part of culture and society. Transformations in everyday media and communication, such as the absence of physical proximity in virtual space, hav…
L-Makhzan al-'Akbari
Morocco was prompted by the sense of making and witnessing history that began as the backdrop to the mass uprisings across the region in 2011 and continued well into 2012. At several moments the country at large burst into a mosaic of rebellion. As expected, the state intervened with media propaganda, smear campaigns and intimidation to pre-empt the growing impact of the activists and as such to erase this revolutionary episode effectively from M…
Online politics and grassroots activism in Lebanon
This article describes the confluence of online activism and street protests in Lebanon. While Arab protesters have systematically been portrayed as young, urban and wired since the 2011 uprisings, Lebanese activists are also often regarded as trapped between war and sectarianism. This article challenges both frameworks and looks closer at the ways pre-existing waves of discontent crystallised into the mobilisation of thousands of Lebanese onto t…
Hasbara 2.0
The Internet has been a counter-public space for Palestinian liberation politics for over a decade, and digital technologies have become an increasingly important tool for solidarity groups across the world. However, the Israeli state and Zionist supporters worldwide are harnessing the same technologies and platforms to mobilize technology primarily to increase pro-Israel sentiments. The aims of this article are to examine hasbara [Israeli public…
Infrastructures of empire
The Arab Uprisings of 2011 can be seen as a turning point for media and information studies scholars, many of whom newly discovered the region as a site for theories of digital media and social transformation. This work has argued that digital media technologies fuel or transform political change through new networked publics, new forms of connective action cultivating liberal democratic values. These works have, surprisingly, little to say about…
The Ideal Refugees
Journal Article The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival, Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Get access The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival, Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East . Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh . Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press , 2014 . 329 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8156-3326-6 . Miriyam Aouragh Miriyam Aouragh …
Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions
This article discusses the socio-political implications of user-generated applications and platforms through the prism of the Arab revolutions. Popular postmodern conceptualisations such as (post-nation state) network societies, (post-class) immaterial economies and (horizontal) political resistance through multitudes requires rigorous reassessment in the aftermath of the events in the MENA. Although the revolutions have led to a resurgence of de…
Palestine Online
For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. She closely examines the uses and limits of internet technology under conditions of war, along with the ways in which virtual participation enables…
Confined Offline, Traversing Online Palestinian Mobility through the Prism of the Internet
The massive Palestinian exodus of the 1948 Nakba left a deep imprint in the Palestinian soul. These forced traversals – as well as the recurring flights in 1956, 1967, 1982 and more – transformed the meaning of 'mobility' in Palestinian discourse. Mobility is naturally adjoined to immobility. The emergence of Palestinian internet helped to overcome immobility and isolation. The remote and fragmented Palestinian nation started to reunite through w…
Everyday resistance on the internet
A political assessment related to the internet portrays how Palestinian political agency transcends into virtual reality. This article offers an insight into the increasing role of the internet for Palestinians in the diaspora and studies the effects of these practices within the context of occupation and exile. Online political activism fills an important gap for what is absent offline. Through multi-sited fieldwork (Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) …
Infrastructures of empire
The Arab Uprisings of 2011 can be seen as a turning point for media and information studies scholars, many of whom newly discovered the region as a site for theories of digital media and social transformation. This work has argued that digital media technologies fuel or transform political change through new networked publics, new forms of connective action cultivating liberal democratic values. These works have, surprisingly, little to say about…
White privilege' and shortcuts to anti-racism
By unpacking the way in which the concept of 'white privilege' is taking over as a shortcut in the analysis of racism, this article assesses its use in anti-racist movements. Using the author's experiences as both an academic and an activist of colour in the Netherlands, it focuses on two schisms that are emerging in social movements. The first schism pits class-based against race-based analyses. The second schism is a questioning of solidarity p…
Hasbara 2.0
The Internet has been a counter-public space for Palestinian liberation politics for over a decade, and digital technologies have become an increasingly important tool for solidarity groups across the world. However, the Israeli state and Zionist supporters worldwide are harnessing the same technologies and platforms to mobilize technology primarily to increase pro-Israel sentiments. The aims of this article are to examine hasbara [Israeli public…
Confined Offline, Traversing Online Palestinian Mobility through the Prism of the Internet
The massive Palestinian exodus of the 1948 Nakba left a deep imprint in the Palestinian soul. These forced traversals – as well as the recurring flights in 1956, 1967, 1982 and more – transformed the meaning of 'mobility' in Palestinian discourse. Mobility is naturally adjoined to immobility. The emergence of Palestinian internet helped to overcome immobility and isolation. The remote and fragmented Palestinian nation started to reunite through w…
L-Makhzan al-'Akbari
Morocco was prompted by the sense of making and witnessing history that began as the backdrop to the mass uprisings across the region in 2011 and continued well into 2012. At several moments the country at large burst into a mosaic of rebellion. As expected, the state intervened with media propaganda, smear campaigns and intimidation to pre-empt the growing impact of the activists and as such to erase this revolutionary episode effectively from M…
Everyday resistance on the internet
A political assessment related to the internet portrays how Palestinian political agency transcends into virtual reality. This article offers an insight into the increasing role of the internet for Palestinians in the diaspora and studies the effects of these practices within the context of occupation and exile. Online political activism fills an important gap for what is absent offline. Through multi-sited fieldwork (Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) …
Online politics and grassroots activism in Lebanon
This article describes the confluence of online activism and street protests in Lebanon. While Arab protesters have systematically been portrayed as young, urban and wired since the 2011 uprisings, Lebanese activists are also often regarded as trapped between war and sectarianism. This article challenges both frameworks and looks closer at the ways pre-existing waves of discontent crystallised into the mobilisation of thousands of Lebanese onto t…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
Making and Shaping a Moroccan Left
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Digital Anthropology
This entry examines how the internet has shaped the development of an important subdiscipline occasionally termed “online anthropology,” “cyber‐anthropology,” or “anthropology 2.0” and now broadly known as “digital anthropology.” This subdiscipline considers the presence of the internet to be an organic part of culture and society. Transformations in everyday media and communication, such as the absence of physical proximity in virtual space, hav…
Everyday resistance on the internet
A political assessment related to the internet portrays how Palestinian political agency transcends into virtual reality. This article offers an insight into the increasing role of the internet for Palestinians in the diaspora and studies the effects of these practices within the context of occupation and exile. Online political activism fills an important gap for what is absent offline. Through multi-sited fieldwork (Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) …
Palestine Online
For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. She closely examines the uses and limits of internet technology under conditions of war, along with the ways in which virtual participation enables…
Confined Offline, Traversing Online Palestinian Mobility through the Prism of the Internet
The massive Palestinian exodus of the 1948 Nakba left a deep imprint in the Palestinian soul. These forced traversals – as well as the recurring flights in 1956, 1967, 1982 and more – transformed the meaning of 'mobility' in Palestinian discourse. Mobility is naturally adjoined to immobility. The emergence of Palestinian internet helped to overcome immobility and isolation. The remote and fragmented Palestinian nation started to reunite through w…
Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions
This article discusses the socio-political implications of user-generated applications and platforms through the prism of the Arab revolutions. Popular postmodern conceptualisations such as (post-nation state) network societies, (post-class) immaterial economies and (horizontal) political resistance through multitudes requires rigorous reassessment in the aftermath of the events in the MENA. Although the revolutions have led to a resurgence of de…
The Ideal Refugees
Journal Article The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival, Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Get access The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival, Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East . Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh . Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press , 2014 . 329 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8156-3326-6 . Miriyam Aouragh Miriyam Aouragh …
Online politics and grassroots activism in Lebanon
This article describes the confluence of online activism and street protests in Lebanon. While Arab protesters have systematically been portrayed as young, urban and wired since the 2011 uprisings, Lebanese activists are also often regarded as trapped between war and sectarianism. This article challenges both frameworks and looks closer at the ways pre-existing waves of discontent crystallised into the mobilisation of thousands of Lebanese onto t…
Hasbara 2.0
The Internet has been a counter-public space for Palestinian liberation politics for over a decade, and digital technologies have become an increasingly important tool for solidarity groups across the world. However, the Israeli state and Zionist supporters worldwide are harnessing the same technologies and platforms to mobilize technology primarily to increase pro-Israel sentiments. The aims of this article are to examine hasbara [Israeli public…
Infrastructures of empire
The Arab Uprisings of 2011 can be seen as a turning point for media and information studies scholars, many of whom newly discovered the region as a site for theories of digital media and social transformation. This work has argued that digital media technologies fuel or transform political change through new networked publics, new forms of connective action cultivating liberal democratic values. These works have, surprisingly, little to say about…
L-Makhzan al-'Akbari
Morocco was prompted by the sense of making and witnessing history that began as the backdrop to the mass uprisings across the region in 2011 and continued well into 2012. At several moments the country at large burst into a mosaic of rebellion. As expected, the state intervened with media propaganda, smear campaigns and intimidation to pre-empt the growing impact of the activists and as such to erase this revolutionary episode effectively from M…
Digital Anthropology
This entry examines how the internet has shaped the development of an important subdiscipline occasionally termed “online anthropology,” “cyber‐anthropology,” or “anthropology 2.0” and now broadly known as “digital anthropology.” This subdiscipline considers the presence of the internet to be an organic part of culture and society. Transformations in everyday media and communication, such as the absence of physical proximity in virtual space, hav…
Making and Shaping a Moroccan Left
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
White privilege' and shortcuts to anti-racism
By unpacking the way in which the concept of 'white privilege' is taking over as a shortcut in the analysis of racism, this article assesses its use in anti-racist movements. Using the author's experiences as both an academic and an activist of colour in the Netherlands, it focuses on two schisms that are emerging in social movements. The first schism pits class-based against race-based analyses. The second schism is a questioning of solidarity p…
The extractive infrastructures of contact tracing apps
The COVID-19 pandemic will go down in history as a major crisis, with calls for debt moratoriums that are expected to have gruesome effects in the Global South. Another tale of this crisis that would come to dominate COVID-19 news across the world was a new technological application: the contact tracing apps. In this article, we argue that both accounts – economic implications for the Global South and the ideology of techno-solutionism – are clos…
Towards a theory of radical kinship
This is an abridged and edited version of the speech given by the author in the panel on ‘The influence of A. Sivanandan’s ideas’ at the conference ‘New circuits of anti-racism’ at King’s College London in October 2022. It follows on from her seminal 2019 article (in Race & Class 61.2, ‘“White privilege”: shortcuts to anti-racism’) which drew on Sivanandan’s ‘RAT and the degradation of black struggle’, his critique of essentialising blackness and…
Women’s Activism and New Media in the Arab World
In the Arab world, a region undergoing distressing setbacks in social movements and the painful defeats that emanate from counterrevolution, the issues of activism and gender are important, not least where these issues intersect with the question of media and mediation. Insights into the material realities, dependencies, and possibilities of the spaces and tools used by women and their organizations and a critique of the persistence of ideologica…
From Erasure to Restoration
A set of rediscovered revolutionary posters by the Reprint Collective (which was presented as part of Documenta fifteen) in Brussels provided an incredibly moving window into times past. Notwithstanding how the events addressed by those political artefacts now lie in the historical past, the revolutionary reverberations of the posters remain something to treasure. They bring to life political causes that underline the importance of radical solida…
Syrians know their way—from visual memory making to digital testimonies
In 2023, a decade after the 2011–2013 Syrian uprising, many had forgotten the country’s revolutionary struggle. Then, a year later, Bashar Al-Assad was ousted just as suddenly as the 2011 revolts had arisen. This article investigates how we remember, recount and mediate events. It does so by examining the way different features of digital visual media produced by the art collective Al Sha’b Al Suri Aref Tarikh (ASSAT) (“Syrian people know their w…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
Digital illusions, political delusions
Debates about digital technologies absorbing old political conflicts have intensified in recent years. In an ebb and flow between optimistic promise and pessimistic anxiety, discussions regarding the transformative abilities of technology include cyber warfare; digital activism during the 2011 Arab uprisings and the Black Lives Matter movement; the impact of ‘fake news’ on elections; and more recently the domination of Artificial Intelligence. Th…
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