How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants
The book explores how we understand global conflicts as they relate to the European refugee crisis, and draws on a range of empirical fieldwork carried out in the UK and Italy. It examines how global conflict has been constructed in both countries through media representations - in a climate of changing media habits, widespread mistrust, and fake news. In so doing, it examines the role played by historical amnesia about legacies of imperialism - and how this leads to a disavowal of responsibility for the causes why people flee their countries. The book explores how this understanding in turn shapes institutional and popular responses in recei…
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Weitere Autoren: Bhattacharyya, Gargi / Oliveri, Federico
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3811-8
- EAN: 9781526138118
- Produktnummer: 32692885
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.7 cm 461 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 461
Über den Autor
Kirsten Forkert is a lecturer in Media Theory at Birmingham City University. Her research looks at the politics of cultural work and education. Her PhD thesis explored the conditions experienced by freelance artists in London and Berlin and serves as the basis for her first book, 'Artistic Lives' (Ashgate, 2013). She has also published on media art, activism, and the globalisation of education in several journals and edited collections. Prior to academia, Kirsten was active as a media artist, curator and critic. She has been involved in community media, media art and activist projects, including 'Video In' in Vancouver, Canada, and 'Democracy Now!' and the '16beaver Collective' in New York.
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