scholarly journals Labeling and Framing: Understanding Responses to Terrorism and the Far-Right

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
Alannah Piasecki
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Lone Wolf ◽  
State Label ◽  
The Media ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Politically Motivated Violence

The War on Terror narrative has created gaps in the critical understanding of terrorism studies, particularly in how the media and the state label politically motivated violence. The understanding of what terrorism means for western states has shifted dramatically after the events of September 11, 2001. With that shift, there has also been an increase in social movements that attempt to work within or work outside the current government rhetoric. However, the existence of such movements and groups and the violent acts they commit has been on the rise. This paper seeks to explore whether or not the inconsistent labeling of far-right social movement violence in western states as ‘lone wolf violence’ or ‘hate crime’ rather than ‘terrorism’ is detrimental to the critical understanding of both terrorism and counter terrorism.

Transformation des Journalismus in Zeiten der großen Gereiztheit

SPIEL ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Bernhard Pörksen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
Power Dynamic ◽  
The Media

Resentment toward the media establishment is on the move – from the far right towards the centre of society. With fatal effect: it turns media criticism and journalism debates into ideologically entrenched battles which in turn lead to reciprocally escalating crises of trust and, subsequently, funding in journalism. An essay on this new power dynamic and a vision of communication in the digital age.

Beyond ‘fake news’?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Wright
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Functional Relationship ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Media

Abstract This article longitudinally analyses how Australian politicians engage with, and attack, journalists and the media more generally on Twitter from 2011–2018. The article finds that attacks on journalists have increased significantly since 2016 when Trump came to power, but this is largely the preserve of populist and far-right politicians. These politicians rarely call the media fake, instead alleging bias or questioning the veracity or standards of reporting and production. Many politicians have a functional relationship with the media, rarely criticising the media. Attacks are largely focused on the national public service broadcaster, the ABC, with limited attacks on commercial media.

scholarly journals Book Review: 9/11 and the War on Terror: A Documentary and Reference Guide

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Carla Wilson Buss
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Military History ◽  
September 11 ◽  
First Person ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Research Institute

In the nearly sixteen years since the terrible events of September 11, 2001, nearly 13,000 non-fiction books have been written about that day. Topics range from first-person accounts to memorials to collections of documents. A new addition to the crowded field is 9/11 and the War on Terror: A Documentary and Reference Guide. The author, Paul J. Springer, is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Professor of Comparative Military History at the Air Command and Staff College in Alabama. His work presents excerpts of declassified documents, chosen to illustrate the effects on and between terrorism and counterterrorism. The selected material is freely available elsewhere, but in this collection the author provides a useful chronology and a short analysis of both the impetus to create the document and its effects.

scholarly journals HATE CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS

2020 ◽  
pp. 081
Author(s):  
Darko Dimovski
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Human History ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Media

Hate crimes have existed throughout human history. Although in recent decades many countries have criminalized this form of violent crime in their legislation, few countries pay special attention to prevention measures aimed at countering hate crimes. In this paper, the author will present the hate crime prevention programs launched in the countries that have advanced most in the creation and implementation of such prevention measures. The first two parts of the paper are dedicated to the analysis of special hate crime prevention programs focusing on the perpetrator, while the third part presents the programs focusing on the potential victims. The last part of the paper discusses the role of the media as the bearers of hate crime prevention programs.

Community-based Learning and Social Movements

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crime ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Justice Movements

The rise of Far Right populism poses major challenges for communities, exacerbating divisions, hate speech and hate crime. This book shows how communities and social justice movements can effectively tackle these issues, working together to mitigate their underlying causes and more immediate manifestations. Showing that community-based learning is integral to the development of strategies to promote more hopeful rather than more hateful futures, Mayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of their problems. Using case studies that illustrate education approaches in practice, she shows how communities can engineer democratic forms of social change.

History, Narrative, and the War on Terror

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of

The assumption that September 11, 2001 constituted a historical rupture enabled the advent of the War on Terror and disabled its critical apprehension. Beginning to counter the trope of rupture, this Introduction locates the paradigms of security and terror—the core conceptual tropes of contemporary and American and global culture—within the long history of a specifically colonial modernity. After outlining this history—its rationalities of accumulation and governance—this Introduction poses the problem of representation, the question of how the colonial present is historicized and theorized in works of contemporary fiction and theory.

Recessive Objects

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-75
Author(s):  
Sun-ha Hong
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Lone Wolf ◽  
Pure Data ◽  
A Site

The Snowden files are recessive objects: things that promise to extend our knowability but, in doing so, catalyze speculation and doubt. Drawing on media phenomenology, this chapter connects this recessivity to the surveillance systems themselves and the war on terror. The effort to predict the “lone wolf” terrorist, from the Boston bomber to the Las Vegas shooter, paradoxically becomes a site for smuggling in old racial prejudices about the monstrous Other. The convenient myth of “pure” data here encounters the far older and troubling project of national, territorial, and racial purity.

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