Full Description
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of topics-including public art, urban spaces, and print, broadcast and digital media-it assembles an impressively multifaceted perspective, one that provides broad insights into the complex interplay of culture, conflict, and identity.
Contents
List of Illustrations;Acknowledgements;Introduction: A Multidisciplinary and Multiperspectival Approach to Conflict;Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier;PART I: THE MATERIALITY OF CONFLICY IN CYPRUS;Chapter 1. Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus: The Problematic Rethinking of a Conflicted Past;Nico Carpentier;Chapter 2. Soundmarks of Conflict in the City Centre of Divided Nicosia;Yiannis Christidis and Angeliki Gazi;Chapter 3.;Bridge Over Troubled...;Susan J Drucker and Gary Gumpert;Chapter 4. Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus: Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and Critiques;Lia-Paschalia Spyridou and Dimitra L. Milioni;PART II: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM WITHIN (NORTH AND SOUTH);Chapter 5. The 'Others' in Peace Talks: Representation of 'Us' and 'Them' in the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot Press;Christophoros Christophorou and Sanem Sahin;Chapter 6. Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Cypriot Bailout;Vaia Doudaki;Chapter 7. Challenging the Sacredness of 'the Mediated Centre': The Shift of the Media Discourses on Bicommunal Relations in Cyprus after the Crossing Points Opening in 2003;Christiana Karayianni;Chapter 8. The Cypriot 'Occupy the Buffer Zone' Movement: Online Discursive Frames and Civic Engagement;Venetia Papa and Peter Dahlgren;PART III: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM THE OUTSIDE;Chapter 9. Whose Flags are These? Apollon Limassol v. Trabzonspor Football Matches in Turkish Online News and User Comments as a Case of 'Banal Nationalism';Beybin Kejanlioglu and Serhat Guney;Chapter 10. A Treasure in Varosha: The Role of a Cypriot Myth in the Construction of Turkish Nationalist Identity;Aysu Arsoy;Chapter 11. PAX TROIKANA: The U.K. Media and the Symbolic Conflicts on the Cypriot 'Rescue' Programme;Giulia Airaghi and Maria Avraamidou;Chapter 12. Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses of the Cypriot Economic Crisis by Greek Media;Yiannis Mylonas;ALPHAfterword: Studying Conflicts in Cyprus: Lessons Learned for Conflict Studies;Nico Carpentier;Bibliography;Index
