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Abstract

This article examines commemorative sticker clusters that emerged in Israel following the October 7 2023 attacks and the Iron Swords war. Based on a multimodal qualitative analysis of ~1,020 stickers across 55 documented clusters, the study explores how these grassroots artifacts construct collective memory in the wake of national trauma. Analyzing stickers as semiotic units within dense spatial formations, the findings identify a new biographical commemorative genre that shifts from earlier polemical forms to emotionally charged personal narratives structured around three themes: Love of Life, Heroism and Nationalism, and Calls for the Return of Abductees. Conceptualized as a distributed memoryscape, these clustered formations process trauma while reinforcing patterned hierarchies of grief within a contested Linguistic Landscape.

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2026-04-13
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Keywords: stickers ; October 7 ; commemoration ; Linguistic Landscape ; collective trauma ; victims

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