Representing Communities

Discourse and Contexts

Ruth Sanz Sabido

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319650296
• eBook ISBN: 9783319650302
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

This edited collection offers the latest research into the reproduction of 'hegemonic' discourse and the ways in which the description and evaluation of social groups affects their ability to exercise cultural and political autonomy. The book examines the representations of a number of communities and social groups, both within their 'micro-contexts', and with reference to the economic, political, social, cultural and technological 'macro-contexts' in which they are embedded. The analysis highlights the connections between discourse, power, dominance and social inequality, focusing on patriarchal, capitalist and postcolonial representations and power imbalances. Based on a combination of theoretical and empirical analyses, the collection offers an array of macro-social critiques based on the analysis and critical understanding of contemporary contexts and representations, and how they contribute to political, social, economic and cultural practices.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Editor and Contributors
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Communities, Discourse and Contexts
• Part I Challenging the System
• Chapter 2 Constructing Community: Notes on a Slippery Concept
• Chapter 3 Transforming the Politics of Gender and Voice: Strategies of Expertise and Experience
• Chapter 4 Populism, “Community” and Political Culture: The Revenge of the Liberal Elite
• Chapter 5 Discursive Colonialism: German Settler Communities, Their Media and Infrastructure in Africa, 1898–1914
• Part II Representing Communities, Perpetuating Inequality
• Chapter 6 Legitimising Political Homophobia: Sexual Minorities and Russian Television News
• Chapter 7 Interrogating Representations and Misrepresentations of Violence: The Contested Identities of Generation 1.5 Somalis in Melbourne
• Chapter 8 News Coverage of a Women’s Hunger Strike Against “Chauvinist Violence”
• Chapter 9 Egresses: Countering Stereotypes of Blackness and Disability Through Horrorcore and Krip Hop
• Part III Communities and their Contexts
• Chapter 10 New Orleans, Food, Race and Gender on Television: Frank’s Place and Treme
• Chapter 11 Partiality, Patriotism and Propaganda: Aggregating Local News Sources in Ukraine
• Chapter 12 Constructing “Ordinary People” on British Television: Notes on the Politics of Representation
• Index