UID:
almahu_9949465214202882
Format:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839459591
Series Statement:
Critical Studies in Media and Communication
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Context and Significance -- 1.2 A Brief History of Television News in the Arab World -- 1.3 The Syrian Conflict as a Case Study -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- 2. Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 Vulnerability, Resistance, and the Dependency on Infrastructure -- 2.2 Power and Different Modes of Violence -- 2.3 Defining Resilience in Neoliberal Times -- 2.4 Resistance, Agency, and the Non‐liberatory Subject -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Perspective on Language and Discourse -- 3.2 A Critical Approach to Discourse Analysis -- 3.3 Units of Analysis -- 3.3.1 The Sample Selection -- 3.3.2 The Selection of Dominant Themes -- 3.3.3 The Analysis Process -- 3.4 Methodological Questions on Agency and Points of Reversibility -- 3.5 Methodological Reflections -- 4. Arab Television News Coverage of Former Female Syrian Prisoners in Exile: -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Research Data -- 4.3 Analysis -- 4.3.1 Imprisonment, Sexual Assault, and Controlled Mobility -- 4.3.2 From Being Shamed to Being Silenced -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5. Rethinking the Relationship between Child Marriage and Failed Infrastructure during the Syrian Conflict -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Research Data -- 5.3 Analysis -- 5.3.1 Child Marriage -- 5.3.2 Failed Infrastructure -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6. Displaced Syrian Women at Work: -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Research Data -- 6.3 Analysis -- 6.3.1 Talking to Good Resilient Subjects: Displaced Syrian Women Erasing the Past or Painting it through their Work -- 6.3.2 Training the Good Resilient Subject: A Survey of News Reports on Displaced Syrian Women Participating in Vocational and Cash‐for-Work Programs and other blue‐collar Jobs -- 6.4 The Notion of Resilience in a Humanitarian Discourse -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7. 'Mothers of the Nation': -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Research Data.
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7.3 Analysis -- 7.3.1 From Manly Fighters to Ornamented Flowers -- 7.3.2 Motherhood as a National Duty -- 7.3.3 Reflecting on other News Stories -- 7.4 Motherhood in Relation to Agency -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8. The Construction of Syrian Women in the Arab Television News -- 8.1 Normalizing Violence and Reaffirming Victimhood in the Television News -- 8.2 Humanitarian Reasoning and Personal Testimonies in the Television News -- 8.3 Questions on Agency and the Dynamics of Shame, Fear, and Dignity in the Arab Television News -- 9. From Dominant Media Frames to Spaces of Appearance -- 9.1 Television Ownership: Biases and Blind Spots -- 9.2 The Dominant Media Frames and the Procedures of Media Reporting -- 9.3 The Mediated Figure of the Syrian Woman at the Forefront of Geopolitical Tensions -- 9.4 The Intersection of Media Logic, Gender Logic and War Logic in Television News Narratives -- 9.5 A Feminist Logic by Spaces of Appearance? -- 10. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Zein, Rand El Between Violence, Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance Bielefeld : transcript,c2021 ISBN 9783732859597
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
