Browsing by Research Institute "Media Discourse Centre (MDC)"
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Amateur Photography, The Final Frontier: Developing Histories of Marginalised Popular Photographic Practices
(Presentation)My talk explored whether it is possible or desirable to position unaccounted for amateur photographic practices in relation to other dominant histories of photography. Considering how exclusive and limited the field of ... -
“… And I will Live Forever”: The Intimate Politics of Family Photographs
(Presentation)This invited talk investigated the practice of family photography and its interrelationship with the social domain, with state politics, and issues of cultural difference, class, nationalism and racism. Addressing some ... -
Anti-Austerity Protests, Brexit and Britishness in the News
(Book chapter)This chapter examines the representations of austerity measures and anti-austerity protests in the British national press between 2011 and 2015, in order to identify some of the underlying attitudes that produced the ... -
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran
(Article)Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism constitute two important ideological building blocks of the Islamic Republic of Iran, yet there is no existing research into the psychosocial motives underlying the institutional manifestation ... -
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the British Pakistani Muslim community
(Book chapter)Antisemitism is often described as an irrational, age-old prejudice that must be eradicated, while in many social and political contexts anti-Zionism tends to be discussed in terms of a legitimate stance on Israel, a ... -
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism: representation, cognition and everyday talk.
(Book)Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are complex, delineable, yet inter-related social-psychological phenomena. While antisemitism has been described as an irrational, age-old prejudice, anti-Zionism is often represented as a ... -
“Arabic is the language of the Muslims - that’s how it was supposed to be”: exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born Asians.
(Article)This study explores how a group of young British-born South Asians understood and defined their religious and linguistic identities, focusing upon the role played by heritage languages and liturgical languages and by ... -
Are You Kidding? Reassessing morality, sexuality and desire in 'Kids'
(Article)Following the 25th anniversary of the making of this controversial film, this article for Film International examines the legacy of the 1995 film 'Kids', especially in relation to its young screenwriter Harmony Korine. ...