基本説明
This anthology critically analyses how cultures around the world make social categories of race, class, gender and sexuality meaningful in particular ways.
Full Description
In a global landscape, the representational practices through which inequalities gain meaning are central- both within and across national boundaries. Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation takes a fresh look at how inequalities of class, race, sexuality, gender, and nation are constructed in twenty countries on five continents. It offers both rich insight and cultural critique- yet it does not offer a universal paradigm, nor is it concerned with debates about scholarship from "the center" or "the periphery". The collection de-centers North American/European paradigms by placing scholarship from countries around the globe on equal footing.
Readers will find a variety of analytical styles including frame analysis, semiotics, poststructural discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, and conversation analysis. Each chapter provides an overview of relevant cultural and historical contexts for an international audience as well as a brief introduction to relevant methodological and theoretical frameworks. Consequently, it is both a richly diverse and easily accessible collection.
Contents
Introduction - Celine-Marie Pascale
SECTION ONE: CLASS
1. Class Invisibility and Stigmatization: Irish Media Coverage of a Public Housing Project in Limerick - Martin Power, Amanda Haynes and Eoin Devereaux
2. Inequality and Representation: Critical Discourse Analysis of News Coverage about Homelessness - Viviane de Melo Resende and Viviane Tamalho
3. Poverty and the Survival of Discourses of Discrimination: Otomi Speakers in Mexico - Roland Terborg and Laura Garcia Landa
4. Race-Class Intersections as Interactional Resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Kevin Whitehead
SECTION TWO: RACE
5. The Representation of Ehtnic-cultural Otherness: The Roma Minority in Serbian Press - Natasa Simeunovic Bajic
6. You Are Trying to Make Race an Issue! Race-baiting and Social Categorizatino in US Immigrant Debates - Shiao-yun Chiang
7. Global Media and Cultural Identities: The Case of Indians in Post-Amin Uganda - Hemant Shah
8. Representing and Reconstructing Chinatown: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Place Names in Urban Planning Policies of Washington, DC - Jackie Jia Lou
SECTION THREE: SEXUALITY
9. Sexual Citizenship and Suffering Subjects: Media Discourse about Teenage Homosexuality in South Korea - Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree
10. Hidden Sex: Behind the Veil and in the Forest - Sanya Osha
11. The Bad and the Good (Queer) Immigrant in Italian Mass Media - Valentina Pagliai
12. The Surplus of Paradoxes: Queering/Images of Sexuality and Economy - Antke Engel
SECTION FOUR: GENDER
13. Positioning the Veiled Woman: An Analysis of Austrian Press Photographs in the Context of the European Headscarf Debates - Ricarda Drüeke, Susanne Kirchhoff and Elisabeth Klaus
14. Constructing the Other: Young Men's Talk on Ethnic and Racist Violence - Kjerstin Andersson
15. Language as a Means of 'Civilizing' Kurdish Women in Turkey - Ebru Sungun
16. Contested Identity: Transgendered People in Malaysia - Caesar DeAlvais, Maya Khemlani David and Francisco Perlas Dumanig
SECTION FIVE: NATION
17. Language and Identity: Minority Language Policy, Turkish Soap Operas and Language in the Bulgarian Mediascape - Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova
18. Tiny Neitzen Mocking Great Firewall: Research on the Discourse of Power and Politics of Representation in China, 2005-2010 - Weizhun Mao
19. Framing Extreme Violence: Collective Memory-Making in Argentina - Roberta Villalon
20. The Changing Dynamics of Political Discourse About Orphans in Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods - Margarita Astoyants
