Social inequality & the politics of representation : a global landscape

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Title:

Author:

Pascale, Celine-Marie, 1956-

ISBN:

9781412992213

Publication Information:

Thousand Oaks : SAGE, c2013.

Physical Description:

xxii, 339 p. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 CLASS -- 1.Class Invisibility and Stigmatization: Irish Media Coverage of a Public Housing Estate in Limerick / Amanda Haynes -- 2.Inequality and Representation: Critical Discourse Analysis of News Coverage About Homelessness / Viviane Ramalho -- 3.Linguistic Discrimination, Poverty, and the Otomi in Mexico / Laura Garcia Landa -- 4.Race-Class Intersections as Interactional Resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Kevin Whitehead -- SECTION 2 RACE -- 5.The Representation of Ethnic-Cultural "Otherness": The Roma Minority in Serbian Press / Natasa Simeunovic Bajic -- 6."You are trying to make it a racial issue!": Race-Baiting and Social Categorization in Recent U.S. Immigration Debates / Shiao-Yun Chiang -- 7.Global Media and Cultural Identities: The Case of Indians in Post-Amin Uganda / Hemant Shah --

Contents note continued: 8.Representing and Reconstructing Chinatown: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Place Names in Urban Planning Policies of Washington, D.C. / Jackie Jia Lou -- SECTION 3 SEXUALITY -- 9.Sexual Citizenship and Suffering Subjects: Media Discourse About Teenage Homosexuality in South Korea / Myra Marx Ferree -- 10.Hidden Sexualities: Behind the Veil and in the Swamps / 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 4 GENDER -- 13.Positioning the Veiled Woman: An Analysis of Austrian Press Photographs in the Context of the European Headscarf Debates / Elisabeth Klaus -- 14.Constructing and Being the "Other": Young Men's Talk on Ethnic and Racist Violence / Kjerstin Andersson -- 15.Language as a Means of "Civilizing" the Kurdish Women in Turkey / Ebru Sungun --

Contents note continued: 16.Contested Identity: Transgendered People in Malaysia / Francisco Perlas Dumanig -- SECTION 5 NATION -- 17.Language and Identity: Turkish Soap Operas and Language Policy in the Bulgarian Mediascape / Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova -- 18.Tiny Netizens Mocking the Great Firewall: Discourse, Power, and the Politics of Representation in China, 2005 to 2010 / Weizhun Mao -- 19.Framing Extreme Violence: The Collective Memory-Making of Argentina's Dirty War / Roberta Villalon -- 20.The Changing Dynamics of Political Discourse About Orphans in Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods / Margarita Astoyants.

Abstract:

"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 20 countries on 5 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. Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation examines timely issues including: Muslim veiling in Austria; poverty among Otomi in Mexico; Indian immigrants in Uganda; race and class in South Africa; Romany rights in Serbia; the (mis)education of Kurdish women in Turkey; collective memory-making in Argentina; internet censorship in China; women's sexuality in Nigeria; orphans in Russia; and transgender cultures in Malaysia. 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."--Publisher's website.

Subject Term:

Equality.

Social stratification.

Added Author:

Pascale, Celine-Marie, 1956-

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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.