Editorial Political Cartoons in Australia: Social Representations &amp; and the Visual Depiction of Essentialism

Moloney, Gail; Holtz, Peter; Wagner, Wolfgang

doi:10.1007/s12124-013-9236-0

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“…The lampooning and ridiculisation of politicians, stereotyping of minority groups are far more possible by using symbols or metaphors rather than words. Through widely used stereotypes, metaphors and symbols, cartoons contribute to the making of social representations (Moloney et al 2013). They have the ability to anchor settled representations of social groups and substantiate the general agreements on stigmatised groups.…”

Section: Editorial Cartoons: the Visual Supports Of The Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The cultural memory of the society reduces the discrepancies which may occur in the anologies constructed by the cartoonists. Moloney et al (2013) offer some fundamental tools used in the cartoons in the making of social representations: exaggeration, infantilising, physiognomic stereotyping and hyperbole. While working in the denotative and connotative levels, these strategies go hand in hand with the cultural reservoir of the society in the construction of social representations.…”

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The Depiction of Women’s Suffrage in Turkey in the Editorial Cartoons of the Era

Ince

2015

Journal of Yaşar University

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IntroductionThroughout its history, cartoons have been used both as a tool for propaganda and opposition. The power of the visual over the text, the ability to convey complex messages by simple symbols and metaphors, the chance to reach to the illiterate as well as the literate have been the advantages of this medium. Its publication in the newspapers has also facilitated the dissemination of its messages to the masses through a medium which was a tool itself in the creation of the nations (see Anderson 2006). As for the case of modernisation and nation-building in Turkey, the cartoons have been assigned similar roles to that of the ones in Western societies. They became a functional tool of propaganda during the nation-building process (Gencer 2012 and. They also assisted the creation of stereotypes in which the friends and enemies of the nation had been coded. During this period, the transition to a modern and secular society went hand in hand with the cultural and historical memory of the society. Despite the fervent efforts for women"s emancipation, the reforms related to the women have been a realm of meaning in which historical memory was transformed to a new form of patriarchy. Settled stereotypes of this ideology held the liberation of women hostage. Women became the face of a modernising and Westernising society by becoming more visible in public life, attaining "men"s professions" or voting, yet meanwhile they were expected to act not as individuals but as the missionaries of the nation-building process by being mothers and child rearing for the nation. This was the creation of the "child-woman" (Zihnioğlu 2003), growing with the Kemalist reforms whom was asked to suffice with what the "fathers" gave and serve to the nation within the boarders of the "common good" decided by the political elites. Any independent voice would be stigmatised as a deviation from the national ideology of the nation-builders.The granting of the suffrage rights in Turkey exemplifies this attitude toward women. The sideline of the women"s movement embodied in the Women"s Union which was leaded by Nezihe Muhiddin indicates the thin line between being the ally and the enemy of the founding ideology of the regime. The analysis of the depiction of women after the granting of the suffrage rights in the cartoons of the era, enable to see the construction of women"s identities and evaluate whether their individualities have been circumscribed within the forms of patriarchy. By scrutinising the cartoons ran in the newspapers when the suffrage rights were granted, this study aims to understand the stereotypes which defined the boundaries of womenhood and women"s movement.

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Section: Editorial Cartoons: the Visual Supports Of The Newsmentioning

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Section: Editorial Cartoons: the Visual Supports Of The Newsmentioning

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The Depiction of Women’s Suffrage in Turkey in the Editorial Cartoons of the Era

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2015

Journal of Yaşar University

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“…Similarly, see for instance the uses of religious elements in migration among Greeks in the UK (Kadianaki 2009), Somalis in Egypt (Mahmoud 2009), etc. Rupture experienced by a person or a group can also affect others around them. It is typically the case when a rupture who affects a large population: as they might be displaced or migrate, secondary ruptures might affect their host or neighbors, as it is the case with Australians who start to feel threatened by numerous immigrants (Moloney et al 2013). In that case, the population's attempt to confer meaning to the new immigrants can be read as an example of "turning the unfamiliar into familiar" manifested by the processes of social representations, identified by Moscovici (2000Moscovici ( , 2008.…”

Section: Using Religious Elements To Make Sense Of Rupturesmentioning

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“…The Australian case described by Moloney et al (2013) shows the catalytic role of the media in collective meaning making, by creating a field of promoted interpretation of a given situation. The daily newspapers participate in the evolution of the semiosphere, creating new symbolic repertoires, which then strongly channels the way in which people might interpret specific events.…”

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“…As will be shown, essentializing Muslim features and linking them to the idea of a culturally induced gender inequality can be considered as a kind of transnationalization of religion. Hence, in Australian Cartoons, as shown by Moloney et al (2013), Muslims are depicted almost exclusively with religious markers (veil, beards for men), projecting the Muslim women as the 'other', symbolically as a victim of archaic gender-oppressive practices within Muslim society; we are here faced with transnationalized social representations about what Muslims are, and how they behave. In this context it is interesting to ask which and what effects such stigmatization has on the Muslim population and how they cope with it, again in terms of meaning making and boundary work.…”

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Religion in Meaning Making and Boundary Work: Theoretical Explorations

Dahinden

Zittoun

2013

Integr. psych. behav.

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Based on the articles brought together for this special issue, this article proposes a transversal analysis and theoretical elaboration of the question of the uses of religious elements for meaning making and boundary work. In order to do so, we will first propose a sociocultural psychological perspective to examine meaning making dynamics. Second, we will apply a boundary work perspective, as recently developed in the social sciences, on the organization of religious differences. The first considers religious elements as resources that can be used by people to orient themselves in time and the social space, to interpret and guide action, and to create new forms of life. The second approach proposes an analysis of uses of religious stuff in order to understand how boundaries between groups are created, transgressed or dissolved as well as to explore the link between religion and power. Our argument is that the articulation of these two approaches can itself offer a rich theoretical frame to apprehend religions in contemporary society.

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Constructing and contesting threat: Representations of white British Muslims across British national and Muslim newspapers

Amer

Howarth

2018

Euro J Social Psych

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White British Muslims pose a challenge to racialised representations of British Muslims as non‐white, foreign and Other. By drawing on tools from Critical Discourse Analysis to develop Social Representations Theory on a micro‐analytic level, and making connections with other relevant social psychological theories on intergroup relations, this article examines the constructions of white British Muslims as a threat in six national and two Muslim British newspapers. It looks at how discourses are used to create, perpetuate and challenge the ‘hegemonisation’ of social representations in majority and minority press. The findings show that white British Muslims are portrayed as a threat not just despite of, but because of, their position as part of the ‘white British’ ingroup. Consequently, the threat they pose often leads to their Muslimness being emphasised. This was, at times, contested, however, either through direct challenges, or by making the threat ambivalent by drawing on their whiteness.

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Editorial Political Cartoons in Australia: Social Representations & and the Visual Depiction of Essentialism

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

The Depiction of Women’s Suffrage in Turkey in the Editorial Cartoons of the Era

The Depiction of Women’s Suffrage in Turkey in the Editorial Cartoons of the Era

Religion in Meaning Making and Boundary Work: Theoretical Explorations

Constructing and contesting threat: Representations of white British Muslims across British national and Muslim newspapers

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