San Diego State University Sound Decolonization & Radical Activists Paper

What does it mean to “decolonize sound” (as Herwees argues happens in Discostan)? How are Discostan and “Drone Operator” examples of the kind of “diasporic resistance” that Drury talks about in her article?

Read the short online article by Tasbeeh Herwees, “The Republic of Discostan (Links to an external site.)” and then watch performance artist Gelare Khoshgozaran’s short video “Drone Operator

https://www.good.is/articles/discostan-and-the-psychedelic-islamic-state

https://gelarekhoshgozaran.com/The-Drone-Operator-2014

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Assignment 2:

What argument does the YouTube video make about freedom of movement for women in a patriarchal context (in this case, New York city)?

Reading 5.4 discusses webcomic Qahera, by Deena Mohamed, which incorporates a response to Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN. Though FEMEN claims to be feminist and subversive, it is not intersectional insofar as it uses anti-Muslim rhetoric and imagery in some of its protest strategies.

FEMEN’s activism has included protests against Islam/ism for assumed oppression of women. One of the key assumptions is that the hijab is a symbol of oppression, because it forces women to cover.

FEMEN assumes that nudity means freedom, and wearing a hijab (something that not all Muslim women do) is a symbol of oppression. But anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod argues that the hijab can offer a form of “portable seclusion,” and therefore greater freedom of movement in public spaces. Watch the video: “10 Hours of Walking Through NYC as a Woman in a Hijab (Links to an external site.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgw6y3cH7tA