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This chapter examines how the journalistic record as a form of gendered cultural memory is changing through the use of mobile and social technologies to witness violence and death in the War on Terror. It gives new feminist interpretations to questions of gender and memory in the public domain in relation to mobile phone witnessing of acts of violence and terrorism, with global case studies originating from London, Iran, Palestine/Israel, and Afghanistan. The analysis traces how gendered memory assemblages of death and terrorism are mobilised and securitised across six trajectories of the globital memory field: these reveal both continuities and transformations in how femininities and masculinities intersect with ethnicities in memory assemblages of death and violence in The War on Terror.
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Reading, A. (2016). Globital Publics: Death. In: Gender and Memory in the Globital Age. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35263-7_7
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