CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Rangitsch, Spencer |
|---|---|
| Title | Tracing Symbolic Discourses of Steadfastness and Resistance: Collective Memory, Social Practice and Palestinian (Trans)Nationalism |
| Summary | This thesis considers a theoretical framework of symbolic discourse and its relationship to a Palestinian national - and transnational - idiom. Through examining, elucidating, and deconstructing recurrent discursive motifs as they appear in sociological studies of “collective memory” and social practice, the theoretical possibility of a symbolic discourse of steadfastness and resistance is advanced as a “filter” through which social practice is perceived, political possibilities are mediated, and “culture production” generated. The later third of the thesis examines this symbolic discourse as it manifests itself in a nascent, transnational, and sub-cultural medium: Palestinian hip-hop. The argument contends that this artistic medium – and the symbolic discourses it carries – serves as a site for individual, collective, and transnational Palestinian subjectivities to be affirmed, empowered and galvanized. |
| Supervisor | Rabinowitz, Dan |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/rangitsch_spencer.pdf |
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