الإقليم الجغرافي لحركة تشرين الاحتجاجية في العراق دراسة في الجغرافية السياسية

The Geographical Region of the October Protesting Movement: A Study in the Political Geography

Abstract:
The current study is interested in one of the most important political practices in society and the most significant conflict policies that reflect the role of modern communities in policy. Due to the topic originality and its being as a modern orientation in the political geographical ideology, the researcher highly interested in the phenomenon limits, its spatial framework. Therefore, I titled it “The geographical Region of the October Protesting Movement: A Study in the Political Geography” so as to follow up the natural environment and the human factors that support and affect it.
Due to the significance of the religious valuable and cultural structure and considering as a basic axis in the conflict policies and the contemporary political orientation, the researcher cared too much in considering the Shia political theories and the extent of their impact on the social, cultural, and political growth of the region population; then, the role of the religious and social symbols concerning events development and formation of the movement demands.
Since geography represents the material condition of history, the researcher was also interested in following up the history of protesting movements in the region and their role in collective action progress and aspects of protesting and demonstrating. The second side of the study tackled the extent of the movement response of all motifs, the protesters’ passion to them to the globalization variables, communication webs, and the influential political discourse to convey demands and messages to the conflict people and the possible people.
The third part of the study discussed the external variables and their geographical dimensions toward Iraq and the protesting movement, then, predicting its future and possibility of its renewal through inducting its national reasons, the internal and external opportunity structure which is suitable to the public movement aiming for change.
dimensions, the researcher intended to cover to gather between the original research curriculum of the political geography, policy science, and the political sociology; as well an attempt to get benefit from its cognitive outcome to interpret the phenomenon and to target the spatial relations towards it. The study ended with proving its hypothesis that the political geography of the region was represented by its variables as a pushing environment towards the movement and practicing the protesting activity that proves it as Iraqi and patriotic.
political opportunity structure, and centrality of the religious and social symbols and absence of opportunity of the external political structure. The study also proved the activists’ ability in deploying social media platforms, forming the movement demands with a wide social support about the election law and proving the service and economic reality for the country and region.