NDLI: Seeing Like an Orientalist State: The Three Deaths of Neda Agha-Soltan

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Turner, Justin
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	On June 20, 2009 one image became a symbol of violence, as well as a rallying cry for a movement that contested the disputed election of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The image captured the murder of a 26 year old protester named Neda Agha-Soltan, and showed a first-hand account, in bloody detail, of the savagery of state killing. With the help of social media, the video received mass attention from news organizations in the United States by June 22, 2009. Cursory analysis of the New York Times and The Washington Post, representation of Neda’s death, reveals an Iranian government that was unafraid to violently repress a democratic movement. It is my contention here that such a construction was framed by an Orientalist discourse which helped to fabricate three distinct deaths of this murdered protester. First the lasting images of death became a symbol of freedom; Neda’s second death showed a grievable life, one that provided an emotional space for a US audience; and finally her third death which became a means of defining and (re)stabilizing Orientalized perceptions of Iran as violent and barbaric. Ultimately, these three deaths became an instrument that would help justify the call for US intervention on behalf of Western morality and humanitarian aid.
Starting Page	85
Ending Page	103
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12058629
Journal	Critical Criminology
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15729877
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-06-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Criminology & Criminal Justice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Law

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