Norms Cluster Convenes Workshop on Media Representations of Minorities
1 March 2012
Dr Anne White from the Department's Norms, Identities & Representations research cluster organised a one-day workshop on 13 January 2012, titled 'Contemporary Media Representations and Self-Representations of Ethnic and National Minorities'.
The workshop, which contributed to the cluster's ongoing research into contemporary European national, sub-national and gender identities, discussed the construction of minority identities across a range of different European countries, as well as European migrant identities in Australia. In particular, discussion focused on the response of minorities to their portrayal in majority media. A special issue of an academic journal is planned including articles based on the six workshop papers.
Workshop papers
- The discursive construction of “Russian-speakers”: The Russian-language media and demarcated political identities in Latvia (Ammon Cheskin, University of Glasgow)
- Sarkozy and the “Roma Question”: Performing French traditional republicanism? (Marion Demossier, University of Southampton)
- White and European? Hungarians and Romanians in the UK (Jon E. Fox)
- Catalonia and the Team of an Aggressive State(Fernando Leon-Solis, University of the West of Scotland)
- From the social history museum to the community-led museum: how are European migrant narratives represented in Australia? (Nina Parish, University of Bath)
- (In)visible: Eastern European female migrants and the British media (Agnieszka Rydzik, Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, UWIC)
