Middle Eastern Appearances: “Ethnic Gangs”, Moral Panic and Media Framing

Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul

doi:10.1177/000486580103400105

Cited by 33 publications

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“…He associates this desire with a displacement of fear ‘onto some other’ (Sercombe, 1995: 92). This accords with the findings of Poynting et al (2001), who examine the media framing of ‘ethnic gangs’ in south-west Sydney between 1998 and 2000 finding that the media, alongside politicians, community leaders, police and others, created a racialised Other which criminalised Lebanese-Australians (Poynting et al, 2001: 72).…”

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confidence: 78%

‘As parents congregated at parties’: Responsibility and blame in media representations of violence and school closure in an Indigenous community

Carden

2017

Journal of Sociology

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This article considers the discourses of responsibility and blame emerging from newspaper reportage of a crisis in the remote Indigenous community of Aurukun in Northern Queensland, Australia. In doing so, it aims to contribute to the sociology of racism and add to the existing body of scholarship on the ways in which deracialised discourse media discourse can nevertheless be racist. The month of May 2016 saw violence perpetrated by young people against the teachers and principal of the community's only school. Teachers were evacuated to the regional city of Cairns in on the 10th due to violence in the community and fears for their safety. They returned on the 18th, only to be evacuated again on 25 May. These events form the focus of the reportage analysed in this article. The way in which three primary groups of playersparents, teachers, and police-are portrayed in mainstream print media is analysed in order to ascertain how responsibility and blame are apportioned in relation to these events.

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confidence: 78%

‘As parents congregated at parties’: Responsibility and blame in media representations of violence and school closure in an Indigenous community

Carden

2017

Journal of Sociology

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“…Many men described how hanging out around local urban centres served as key everyday social arenas for friendship. Simultaneously, the young men in our study explained what they saw as posting a threat in public because they resembled a "gang" (see also Poynting, Noble, & Tabar, 2001). A gang, as Deuchar (2010, p. 262) rightly points out, is a highly disputed term.…”

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confidence: 56%

“We are Seen as a Threat”: Police Stops of Young Ethnic Minorities in the Nordic Countries

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Summary: This article focuses on the perspectives of young ethnic minorities in the Nordic countries who have experienced various forms of "police stops", i.e. situations where the police stop them without any reference to a specific event that the youth know of. Analytically, the debate is positioned through an intersectionality approach of (un)belonging to majority societies. Across the Nordic countries, we found that the young people described five social markers as reasons for being stopped, namely clothing, hanging out in groups, ethnicity, neighbourhoods and gender. We argue that the police stops explicate how the young men in particular are often forced to think about themselves in terms of "a threat" to the majority and the attributes they have that make them seem like criminals.

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“…In fact, neither spoke directly of race or racism at all. 5 Taking Julia Gillard as an example, we see that she refused to engage with the racism question in an interview on the ABC 7.30 Report during her visit to India in September 2009, despite an attempt by journalist Chris Uhlmann to force the issue: Chris Uhlmann: How do you overcome the perception that Australia’s a racist country?…”

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‘I am tomorrow’: Violence against Indian students in Australia and political denial

Mason

2012

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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India has experienced significant economic growth since the 1990s. Young middle-class Indian nationals have embraced international tertiary and vocational education as a part of this trend. Many of these students have come to Australia to study. In 2009, claims that Indian students in Australia were being targeted for racial violence received worldwide media attention. This article presents the results of a qualitative study of public documents surrounding the ‘violence against Indian students’ issue over a 12-month period. It contends that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that some of the victimisation had a racial or anti-Indian element to it. Drawing upon literature on racism, it reveals a discourse of denial that runs through the responses of Australia’s political leaders to this claim. In the current global environment, however, exposure of Australia’s denial by the Indian media may operate as a form of counter-discourse from an emerging superpower whose citizens refuse to tolerate the failure of western nations to take responsibility for the injustice of racial violence.

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Middle Eastern Appearances: “Ethnic Gangs”, Moral Panic and Media Framing

Cited by 33 publications

References 14 publications

‘As parents congregated at parties’: Responsibility and blame in media representations of violence and school closure in an Indigenous community

‘As parents congregated at parties’: Responsibility and blame in media representations of violence and school closure in an Indigenous community

“We are Seen as a Threat”: Police Stops of Young Ethnic Minorities in the Nordic Countries

‘I am tomorrow’: Violence against Indian students in Australia and political denial

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