Social Inequality and the Politics of Representation : A Global Landscape.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascale, Celine-Marie.

Contributor:

Pascale, Celine-Marie, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Social stratification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2012.

Summary:

This anthology critically analyses how cultures around the world make social categories of race, class, gender and sexuality meaningful in particular ways. The collection uses a wide range of readings to examine how contemporary issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality are constructed, mobilized, and transformed.

Contents:

SOCIAL INEQUALITY &amp

THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION - FRONT COVER

SOCIAL INEQUALITY &amp

THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION

BRIEF CONTENTS

ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Language and Representation

Inequalities in a Global Landscape

About This Book

References

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SECTION 1 CLASS

1 CLASS INVISIBILITY AND STIGMATIZATION: IRISH MEDIA COVERAGE OF A PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE IN LIMERICK

Introduction

The Class Structure in Ireland and Myths of a Classless Ireland

The Importance of Class Representations

They Live Where You Wouldn't Dare To Drive: Stigmatizing Places

Methods

Moyross: The "Politics of Representation"

Constructing a (Mis)representation of Moyross

Visual Representations

Contextualizing Positive Stories to Reproduce Stigma

The Use of Internal and External Sources

Impact on Residents

Conclusions

Notes

2 INEQUALITY AND REPRESENTATION: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NEWS COVERAGE ABOUT HOMELESSNESS

Critical Discourse Analysis and Identity Processes in Texts

Poverty and Representation of Poverty in Brazil

"Ivan, the Homeless Gardener . . . ": Generic Structure and Rhetorical Movements

Evaluation in the text "Ivan, the Homeless Gardener . . . "

Relational Identity in the text "Ivan, the Homeless Gardener . . . "

Metaphor in the Text "Ivan, the Homeless Gardener . . . "

Final Considerations

Appendix 2.1

3 LINGUISTIC DISCRIMINATION, POVERTY, AND THE OTOMÍ IN MEXICO

Poverty in Mexico

The Linguistic Context

The Village of San Cristóbal Huichochitlán

Language Attitudes Toward Indigenous Languages

The analysis

Conclusion

4 RACE-CLASS INTERSECTIONS AS INTERACTIONAL RESOURCES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

Introduction.

Race-Class Intersections in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Data

The Post-Apartheid Racial Common Sense of Wealth and Poverty

Using Race-Class Common Sense

SECTION 2 RACE

5 THE REPRESENTATION OF ETHNIC-CULTURAL "OTHERNESS": THE ROMA MINORITY IN SERBIAN PRESS

The History of Roma Otherness

Theoretical Framework

Method and Methodology

How an "Impassioned Traveler" becomes a "Paper Collector"?

Garbage, Mud, and Dust: Roma as Exotic Outsiders

Can We Blame Roma for Their Fate?

6 "YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT A RACIAL ISSUE!": RACE-BAITING AND SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION IN RECENT U.S. IMMIGRATION DEBATES

Race and Social Categorization

Race and Immigration Debate

Aims of the Present Study

"Oh, is it racist now?"

"And you are trying to make it a racial issue!"

Intergroup Ideologies and Immigration Discourse

7 GLOBAL MEDIA AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES: THE CASE OF INDIANS IN POST-AMIN UGANDA

Indians in Uganda

Cultural Identities and Diasporas

Method

Diaspora and Indian Identities in Uganda

Feeling at Home Versus a "Stake in the Place"

Flexible essentialism

Interviews

8 REPRESENTING AND RECONSTRUCTING CHINATOWN: A SOCIAL SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF PLACE NAMES IN URBAN PLANNING POLICIES OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

Urban Planning Policy as Discourse

Place Names and Semiotics

Data and Methods

Analysis

Place Naming as Political Action

SECTION 3 SEXUALITY

9 SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP AND SUFFERING SUBJECTS: MEDIA DISCOURSE ABOUT TEENAGE HOMOSEXUALITY IN SOUTH KOREA

Citizenship, Media, and Discourse.

Globalization and Sexuality in Contemporary South Korea

Re-Imagining the Korean Nation Under Globalization

Homosexuality as a Threat from Outside

Homosexuality as Global Human Rights

Construction of Partial Sexual Citizenship

The Vulnerable Boy-Victim

The Suffering Homosexual Teenager

10 HIDDEN SEXUALITIES: BEHIND THE VEIL AND IN THE SWAMPS

In the Beginning God Created…

Sex and the Veil

Sex and the Swamps: A New Mode of Production

Global Uncertainties

A General Economy of Postcolonial Sexuality

Conclusion: The Home Without a Father

11 THE BAD AND THE GOOD (QUEER) IMMIGRANT IN ITALIAN MASS MEDIA

Arben's Case

Immigration in Italy and the Media Answer

Pegah's case

The Racialization and Gendering of Albanians

The Construction of the Savage Homophobic Muslim

The "Trendiness" of Being Gay and the Unfashionable Immigrants

12 THE SURPLUS OF PARADOXES: QUEERING IMAGES OF SEXUALITY AND ECONOMY

Queer Cultural Politics in Neoliberalism

Drag Feeding

The Queer Strategy of Equivocation

Projective Integration

From the Strategy of Equivocation to the Politics of Paradox

Acknowledgments

SECTION 4 GENDER

13 POSITIONING THE VEILED WOMAN: AN ANALYSIS OF AUSTRIAN PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN HEADSCARF DEBATES

Media-Constructed Spaces of Identity

The Austrian Headscarf Debate in Its European Context

Images of Veiled Women in the Austrian Press

The Veiled Woman as a Foreign Country: Geo/political Spaces

Afghanistan-a Burqa-Wearing Woman

Locating Anti-American Sentiments and Islam

Spaces for Identification

The Veiled Woman as a Symbol of Terrorism.

Migrants in Everyday Life

Spaces of In-between

14 CONSTRUCTING AND BEING THE "OTHER": YOUNG MEN'S TALK ON ETHNIC AND RACIST VIOLENCE

Discourses of Violence, Ethnicity, and Racism

Categorizing the Other

Marked and Unmarked Categories

The Study

Black

Alone Against Many

The Neo-Nazi Boots

Discussion

15 LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF "CIVILIZING" THE KURDISH WOMEN IN TURKEY

Transformation of a Heterogeneous Empire into a Homogeneous Nation-State

Turkification: The Kemalist Falsification of History

Linguistic Human Rights

Absence of Democracy and Cultural Genocide

Remaking Women

Capacity of Resistance

16 CONTESTED IDENTITY: TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE IN MALAYSIA

The Maknyah of Malaysia

Increasing Islamization and Maknyah's Identity

Aim and Theoretical Framework

Methodology

Discussion of Findings

Malaysian Perception Toward Maknyah

Contesting the Negative Maknyah Identity

Identity in the Workplace

Identity in the Home Domain

Identity in School and University

Identity in an Online Social Network

Maknyah's Linguistic Identity

SECTION 5 NATION

17 LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY: TURKISH SOAP OPERAS AND LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE BULGARIAN MEDIASCAPE

Theoretical Premises

Bulgarian Nationalism, Minority Language Policy, and Ethnicity

The Economic Media Context

Turkish Soap Operas and Their Political Implications

Soap-Opera Chat Rooms: A Case Study

Conceptualizing Soap Operas as a Genre

Audience Characteristics

Language as a Form of Capital

Images of Tradition, Family, and Gender Roles

National Identity Revisited

Fiction Versus Reality

Notes.

References

18 TINY NETIZENS MOCKING THE GREAT FIREWALL: DISCOURSE, POWER, AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN CHINA, 2005 TO 2010

New Media, New Actors, and the Politics of Representation in China: Background

Internet as a Kind of New Media in China

Netizens: Identity and Features

State Power and Internet Censorship in China

The Worries of State Power Toward the Internet

Internet Regulation in China

Strategies and Skills of Netizens in "The War Without Gunsmoke"

Discourse and the Landscape of Power and Politics

Key Focuses of Netizens

From Word to Sentence: The First Step to Deconstruct and Represent

From Event to Structure: The Second Step Is to Deconstruct and Represent

Representation: Deconstruction and Construction

Concluding Remarks: Discontinuous Politics Within Condensed Structure

19 FRAMING EXTREME VIOLENCE: THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY-MAKING OF ARGENTINA'S DIRTY WAR

Frame Analysis and Collective Memory

The Nunca Más Report as the Hegemonic Frame of the Guerra Sucia

Intersectional Reframing of the Guerra Sucia

Emotions-Conscious Reframing of the Guerra Sucia

Concluding Thoughts

20 THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE ABOUT ORPHANS IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET PERIODS

Discourses About Orphaned Children During the October Revolution and Civil War (1920-1926)

Discourse of Social Danger

Discourse of Social Sympathy

Discourse of Social Responsibility

Discourse of Social Utility

Discourses About Orphaned Children During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

Discourses About Orphaned Children Beginning in Perestroika (2002-2005

2008-2009)

Discourse of Social Self-Justification

Discourse of Social Responsibility.

Discourse of Social Partnership.

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ISBN:

9781452256047

1452256047

9781452289694

1452289697

9781071934227

1071934228

OCLC:

1240710628