Discourses of Disorder: Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media

Christopher Hart; Darren Kelsey

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

Discourses of Disorder

Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media

Christopher Hart and Darren Kelsey

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474435420

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Analyses media representations of riots, strikes and protests

Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder. A range of case studies are presented which cut across time, communicative modality and genre, and geo-political context.

10 chapters each addressing representations of riots, strikes and protests in a different national, historical and political context
Includes detailed case studies cutting across time, communicative mode and genre, and geo-political context
Analysis extends beyond linguistic representation to include imagery in the form of photographs, videos and political cartoons
includes case studies of the 1821 Baltimore riots, the 2011 England riots, the Chilean student movement, protests against the Stuttgart 21 development and strike action in Botsawana

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Introduction Christopher Hart and Darren Kelsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Language
1 Representations of the Baltimore Riots of July 1812: Political Spin in the Early American Republic Juhani Rudanko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2 Moral Storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, Metaphor and Ideology Darren Kelsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 Why Do They Protest?: The Discursive Construction of ‘Motive’ in Relation to the Chilean Student Movement in the National Alternative Press (2011–13) Carolina Pérez-Arredondo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4 Crying Children and Bleeding Pensioners against Rambo’s Troop: Perspectivisation in German Newspaper Reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests Gerrit Kotzur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 Taking a Stance through the Voice of ‘Others’: Attribution in News Coverage of a Public Sector Workers’ Strike in Two Botswana Newspapers Boitshwarelo Rantsudu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6 Media ‘Militant’ Tendencies: How Strike Action in the News Press Is Discursively Constructed as Inherently Violent Matt Davies and Rotsukhon Nophakhun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Part II Multimodality
7 Metaphor and the (1984–5) Miners’ Strike: A Multimodal Analysis Christopher Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8 Strategic Manoeuvring in Arab Spring Political Cartoons Rania Elnakkouzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
9 Social Media Activism by Favela Youth in Rio de Janeiro Andrea Mayr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
10 Rioting and Disorderly Behaviour as Political Media Practice: Body Postures on the Streets of L.A. during the Riots of 1992 Serjoscha Ostermeyer and David Sittler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 2 B/W illustrations 12 B/W tables 25 B/W halftones
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474435420