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Publication details [#65619]

Gruber, Helmut. 2018. ‘King of Kings of Africa’. Racializing Qaddafi in the Visual Output of the 2011 Libyan Revolution. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11 (2) : 196–224.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Brill

Annotation

During the 2011 revolts, anti-government actors tried to abate Qaddafi via ethnic stereotypes' usage, unveiling that, in the special Libyan case, satirical assertions through the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ were factional, transgressive, and instrumentally racist.