Gendering terror: representations of the orientalized body in Quebec's post‐September 11 English‐language press

Jiwani, Yasmin

doi:10.1080/1066992042000300657

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“…Therefore, the Orientalist frame activates a semiotic process that implies a variety of associated and historically contingent signs in reference to the Middle East, such as backward, barbaric, traditional, primitive, innocent, childlike, and "relics of the past" (Jiwani 2004). This is the mechanism by which Western media discourse "essentializes Arab/Muslim cultures as interchangeable entities that are inherently and innately violent and primitive" (Jiwani 2004: 273).…”

Section: Framed!: Terroristmentioning

confidence: 98%

Galaxies of meaning: Semiotics in media theory

Jaysane-Darr¹

2010

Semiotica

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The article examines the use of semiotics in media theory, advancing a critique of Saussurian approaches to media and harnessing Peirce's sign theory as a way to analyze media, with reference to the sign "terrorist." The tiered model of media representation based on Saussure's sign relation is found to undertheorize the materiality of the sign, the indeterminacy of meaning, the significance of the speaking subject, and the ideological and institutional forces that work on the sign. The interpretant in Peirce's model allows an alternate approach to media analysis in which media can be considered a kind of material culture, produced by people in regulated settings and encountered by interpreting minds in various contexts. Metasemiotic frameworks are found to operate on the sign "terrorist," but the ongoing process of semiosis also allows for the possibility of change.

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Section: Framed!: Terroristmentioning

confidence: 98%

Galaxies of meaning: Semiotics in media theory

Jaysane-Darr¹

2010

Semiotica

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“…81)-one wielded with potent effect in the current era of the "war on terror." 1 Multiple analyses have examined how media representations of Muslim difference and dangerousness are constitutive in shaping notions of Canadian national identity, and Western civilizational identity more broadly, against an Orientalised enemy Other (Bullock and Jafri 2000;Jiwani 2005aJiwani , 2005bMarin 2011;Thobani 2003;Ismael and Measor 2003;Jiwani 2004;Poynting and Perry 2007;Belkhodja and Richard 2006;Jiwani and Dessner 2016;Olwan 2013;Meer et al 2010;Moore et al 2008;Kumar 2012). Here, I consider how the figure of the Muslim "terrorist" has been constructed in Canadian national news media, and how it has been imbued with an aura of exceptional menace, by conducting a comparative analysis of representations of ideological violence committed by Muslim versus non-Muslim perpetrators.…”

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Framing Muslims in the “War on Terror”: Representations of Ideological Violence by Muslim versus Non-Muslim Perpetrators in Canadian National News Media

Kanji¹

2018

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This study compared representations of ideological violence by Muslim versus non-Muslim perpetrators in Canadian national news media (the Globe and Mail, National Post, and CBC). Both quantitative and qualitative disparities were examined. Acts of Muslim violence received 1.5 times more coverage, on average, than non-Muslim ones, and thwarted Muslim plots received five times more coverage. Muslim incidents were more likely to be labelled “terrorism” and linked to other episodes of violence, and Muslim perpetrators were more likely to be labelled by their religious and ethno-racial identities. These patterns in representation serve to stabilise the racial formations of the Canadian national security state in the “war on terror”.

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“…It was getting excessive so I just deleted him," the young woman...said. (Hui, Freeze, & Thanh Ha, 2013) Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 2016, 11(1)…”

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Barbarians in/of the Land: Representations of Muslim Youth in the Canadian Press

Jiwani¹,

Dessner²

2016

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This paper examines representations of Muslim youth in a major Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, over a four-year period (2010 to 2013). The first part of the article reviews some of the relevant literature regarding Muslim representations in the Western, mainstream media, paying particular attention to representations of Muslim youth. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of 158 news stories, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the coverage is presented. Using a postcolonial and critical race perspective, this article traces the ways in which Muslim youth are represented, illustrating the ways in which a racial logic inscribes them. The findings suggest that Muslim youth are cast not only as an enemy within the nation state, but also as a contaminating force that must be disciplined or ejected from the body politic. They are, in short, barbarians in and of the land. At the same time, these representations cohere to produce an image of the nation as benevolent and dedicated to universal standards of truth and justice.

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Gendering terror: representations of the orientalized body in Quebec's post‐September 11 English‐language press

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Galaxies of meaning: Semiotics in media theory

Galaxies of meaning: Semiotics in media theory

Framing Muslims in the “War on Terror”: Representations of Ideological Violence by Muslim versus Non-Muslim Perpetrators in Canadian National News Media

Barbarians in/of the Land: Representations of Muslim Youth in the Canadian Press

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