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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.
List of contents
1. Introduction for Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance.- 2. Do Roma Lives Matter? A Critical Inquiry into European Media Coverage of violence against Roma.- 3. Police Violence, racism and anti-racism: opinion struggles in the Portuguese daily newspapers.- 4. Maori, policing, and mass media narratives in Aotearoa New Zealand.- 5. 'Hero cop' versus 'unwanted son': criminal prosecutions against white police officers in relation to black deaths in custody and the Australian mainstream media.- 6. Immortalising the Golden Age of Middle Eastern Crime': Police-media liaisons, essentialism, and epistemic violence.- 7. A 'reasonable' and 'excusable' violence: The spread of anti-Muslim violence through the machinery of media, social media, and trigger events.- 8. Occupied Narrative and the 2021 Unity Intifada.- 9. A Violent Dream: Importing the 'Australian Solution' to the United Kingdom.- 10. Policing the SavageHorde: The Texas Rangers and colonial narratives of anti-Mexican violence.- 11. Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton - Riots in the Master's Hall: Racism, Nationalism, and the Crisis of U.S. Hegemony.
