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Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis.
Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators
and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies;
parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within
cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval
practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values.
This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the
rise and fall of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a
coherent era of 'multiculturalism' in the first place. The authors
argue that what we are witnessing is not so much a rejection of
multiculturalism as a projection of neoliberal anxieties onto the
social realities of lived multiculture. Nested in an established
post-racial consensus, new forms of racism draw powerfully on
liberalism and questions of 'values', and unsettle received ideas
about racism and the 'far right' in Europe. In combining theory
with a reading of recent controversies concerning headscarves,
cartoons, minarets and burkas, Lentin and Titley trace a
transnational crisis that travels and is made to travel, and where
rejecting multiculturalism is central to laundering increasingly
acceptable forms of racism.
Digital media have radically altered understandings of racism, so
that an issue that has too often been assumed to belong to the past
has been thrust into contemporary mainstream debates, news and
popular culture. In light of the importance of traditional
communications and social media to such events as Brexit in the UK
and the Trump Presidency in the US, it is imperative for students
of media and public discourse to examine the role played by the
media in the generation, circulation and contestation of racist
ideas. In Racism and Media, Gavan Titley: Explains why racism is
such a complex and contested concept Provides a set of theoretical
and analytical tools with which to interrogate how media dynamics
and processes impact on racism and anti-racism Demonstrates
methods' application through a wide range of case studies, taking
in examples from the UK, US, and several European countries
Examines the rise and impact of online and social media racism
Analyses questions of freedom of speech and hate speech in relation
to racism and media This book is an essential companion for
students of media, communications, sociology and cultural studies.
Digital media have radically altered understandings of racism, so
that an issue that has too often been assumed to belong to the past
has been thrust into contemporary mainstream debates, news and
popular culture. In light of the importance of traditional
communications and social media to such events as Brexit in the UK
and the Trump Presidency in the US, it is imperative for students
of media and public discourse to examine the role played by the
media in the generation, circulation and contestation of racist
ideas. In Racism and Media, Gavan Titley: Explains why racism is
such a complex and contested concept Provides a set of theoretical
and analytical tools with which to interrogate how media dynamics
and processes impact on racism and anti-racism Demonstrates
methods' application through a wide range of case studies, taking
in examples from the UK, US, and several European countries
Examines the rise and impact of online and social media racism
Analyses questions of freedom of speech and hate speech in relation
to racism and media This book is an essential companion for
students of media, communications, sociology and cultural studies.
As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of
January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a
war that has split across nations and continents. The attacks set
in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state
surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right
across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously
divided. These developments raise profound questions about a number
of issues central to contemporary debates, including the nature of
national identity, the limits to freedom of speech, and the role of
both traditional and social media. After Charlie Hebdo brings
together an international range of scholars to assess the social
and political impact of the Paris attacks in Europe and beyond.
Cutting through the hysteria that has characterised so much of the
initial commentary, it seeks to place these events in their wider
global context, untangling the complex symbolic web woven around
'Charlie Hebdo' to pose the fundamental question - how best to
combat racism in our supposedly 'post-racial' age?
Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis.
Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators
and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies;
parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within
cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval
practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values.
This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the
rise and fall of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a
coherent era of 'multiculturalism' in the first place. The authors
argue that what we are witnessing is not so much a rejection of
multiculturalism as a projection of neoliberal anxieties onto the
social realities of lived multiculture. Nested in an established
post-racial consensus, new forms of racism draw powerfully on
liberalism and questions of 'values', and unsettle received ideas
about racism and the 'far right' in Europe. In combining theory
with a reading of recent controversies concerning headscarves,
cartoons, minarets and burkas, Lentin and Titley trace a
transnational crisis that travels and is made to travel, and where
rejecting multiculturalism is central to laundering increasingly
acceptable forms of racism.
As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of
January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a
war that has split across nations and continents. The attacks set
in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state
surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right
across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously
divided. These developments raise profound questions about a number
of issues central to contemporary debates, including the nature of
national identity, the limits to freedom of speech, and the role of
both traditional and social media. After Charlie Hebdo brings
together an international range of scholars to assess the social
and political impact of the Paris attacks in Europe and beyond.
Cutting through the hysteria that has characterised so much of the
initial commentary, it seeks to place these events in their wider
global context, untangling the complex symbolic web woven around
'Charlie Hebdo' to pose the fundamental question - how best to
combat racism in our supposedly 'post-racial' age?
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