Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance (Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture)

This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms, along with the parts played by media actors and institutions in sustaining these phenomena. The chapters present instances of racism from numerous countries in connection with state violence, media coverage of harms and violence against racialised others, including Roma, Palestinians, Indigenous Australians, Maori, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Muslim peoples, Black people in Portugal, Middle-Eastern people in Australia, and asylum seekers. The chapters analyse ideology while paying attention to history and global context, tracing intersectional dynamics including nexuses of racism, class, and gender. They focus on various aspects of violence, including state, colonial and imperialist violence and ideological violence. The book is necessarily interdisciplinary, but explicitly anti-racist and attentive to resistances. It traverses criminology, sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, mediastudies, history, and cognate fields. Acknowledgements Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Introduction for Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance References Do Roma Lives Matter? A Critical Inquiry into European Media Coverage of Violence Against Roma Introduction Romaphobia and the Media Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis The Context of Research The Coverage of Camp Evictions and Deportation of Roma Migrants Euphemising Camp Evictions and Deportations Criminalising the Victims Reversing Victimhood Conclusions References Police Violence, Racism, and Anti-racism: Opinion Struggles in the Portuguese Daily Newspapers Introduction Critically Analysing Opinion in Mainstream Newsmedia Racism/Othering and Anti-racism/De-othering in Portugal Methodology The Alfragide Station Case Opinion Struggles in Mainstream Print Media Correio da Manhã Observador Público Conclusion References Māori, Policing, and Mass Media Narratives in Aotearoa New Zealand Introduction New Zealand Mass Media and the Criminalisation of Māori The New Zealand Police Narrative of ‘Unconscious Bias’ Police Ten 7: Stereotyping ‘Young Brown People’ as Violent Criminals The ‘Useful Intelligence’ Narrative: Police Illegally Photographing Innocent Māori Youth Indigenous Resistance to Police Illegally Photographing Māori Youth Conclusion References ‘Hero Cop’ Versus ‘Unwanted Son’: Criminal Prosecutions Against White Police Officers in Relation to Black Deaths in Custody and the Australian Mainstream Media Introduction State-Sanctioned Violence on Trial, Past and Present Methodology: State-Sanctioned Violence in the Media, Past and Present Findings Conclusion References ‘Immortalising the Golden Age of Middle Eastern Crime’: Police-Media Liaisons, Essentialism, and Epistemic Violence Introduction Essentialism, Epistemic Violence, and Orientalism Police Organisational Opacity Making Middle Eastern Crime Intelligible: A Case Study Professional Police Staff and the (Re)Production of Race Conclusion References A “Reasonable” and “Excusable” Violence: The Spread of Anti-Muslim Violence Through the Machinery of Media, Social Media and Trigger Events Introduction The Nature of Hate: Neither Static nor Singular/Linear The Nature of Far-Right The Machinery of Extreme Hate: Media, Trigger Events and Social Media Media Social Media The Infusion of Hate Ranging from Implicit Bias to Extreme Hate and Violence Case Studies Conclusion References Occupied Narrative and the 2021 Unity Intifada Introduction Media Representation of the Israel-Palestinian Situation Operation Defensive Shield (2002) Operation Cast Lead (2008–2009) From Cast Lead to the Unity Intifada The Unity Intifada: A New Narrative for Palestine? Conclusion: Towards an Un-Occupied Narrative References A Violent Dream: Importing the ‘Australian Solution’ to the United Kingdom ‘Crisis’, ‘Invasions’ and the ‘Dream’ of Off-Shoring: Racism and Violence in the United Kingdom Australian Solution and the Cruel Spectacle of Deterrence Conclusion References Policing the Savage Horde: The Texas Rangers and Colonial Narratives of Anti-Mexican Violence Introduction La Matanza Narratives of Extermination Savagery and Civilization Temporal Dissonance Emerging Unscathed Conclusion: A Thin Blue Line References Riots in the Master’s Hall: Racism, Nationalism, and the Crisis of U.S. Hegemony Radical Reconstruction and the Far Right The Current Conjuncture References Index