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Crisis' Representations: Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives

Crisis' Representations: Frontiers and Identities in the Contemporary Media Narratives

Constantopoulou, Christiana

Paperback

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1642596159
ISBN13: 9781642596151
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Dec 3 2021
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This timely volume brings together prominent sociologists from across the world to unravel the role played by contemporary narrations of the economic and refugee crisis as they have mobilized every aspect of social storytelling over the course of the last decade throughout Europe. Because the different (mass and social) media reflect the dominant ideas and representations, it becomes essential to analyze the meaning of their narratives to even begin to understand the relationship (or inexistent dialogue) between official political discourses and popular myths--most notably the valuation of prosperity so actively promoted by the mass culture and the cultural industry's products. Time and again the pieces in Crisis' Representations find that, despite ongoing inequalities and other social difficulties, contemporary audiences seem to counterbalance their misery with the dreams of happiness provided by these dominant narratives.

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