Unbemerkte Botschaften. Wie Populismus in die Leitmedien einfließt

Herrmann, Friederike

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“…The media hypervisibility of Cologne exposes how racialized gendered identities interacted with existing anxieties and how deeply entrenched colonial notions of wild Arab men sustained the enactment of the sexually threatened body of the German woman as a surface to frame migration as a security issue (Jazmati and Studer, 2017; Pressentin, 2017). The mediatization of the assaults was framed by a narrative that had emerged in the autumn of 2015 contesting Angela Merkel’s pledge to give refuge to Syrians and which claimed that the influx of refugees was overburdening Germany, the state was losing control, and chaos was about to erupt (Herrmann, 2019). The Cathedral of Cologne, a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture associated with the Holy Roman Empire, became, alongside the Cathedral square, a projection screen for a scene where previously diffused fears materialized.…”

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“…Drawing on research about mediatic rapes perpetrated by Muslims in the West (the tournantes in French banlieues , the Rochdale and Rotherham child abuse cases in UK, the Sydney and the Ashfield gang rapes in Australia) (Grewal, 2017; Patel, 2018; Ticktin, 2008; Tufail, 2018), this article assumes that, in contexts of social, religious, racial and ethnic tensions, the mediatization of sexual violence is framed by these very tensions. It is informed as well by research on the racialization of rape in the coverage of Cologne, which exposed how the mediatization of the incidents contributed to xenophobia, discrimination, border control, perceptions of migration as risk, legislation and policy reforms concerning sexual offences, immigration and asylum, and an increase in the support of the far-right (Abdelmonem et al, 2016; Arendt et al, 2017; Behrendes, 2016; Bielicki, 2019; Boulila and Carri, 2017; Drüeke, 2016; Dürr et al, 2016; Hark and Villa, 2017; Herrmann, 2019; Jazmati and Studer, 2017; Vieten, 2018; Weber, 2016). This article shares the conviction that the cultural impact of Cologne must be read ‘against gendered culturalism and racism in Europe’ (Vieten, 2018: 75) and the media construction of the figure of the (un)deserving refugee (Holzberg et al, 2018).…”

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Cologne and the (un)making of transnational approaches to sexual violence

Garraio

2020

European Journal of Women's Studies

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The sexual assaults reported on New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne posed major challenges to feminists struggling with the tensions and entanglements of feminism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, sexism and nationalism. The aim of the present article is to examine these tensions through an analysis of the pressures framing the positionality of discourses. It examines how feminists, framed by the larger Western debates about the ‘failure of multiculturalism’ and the global Islamophobia underpinning the ‘war on terror’ era, engaged with the moral panic which pervaded the mediatization of the assaults. It argues that feminist initiatives like #ausnahmslos’, which situated anti-racism at the core of any engagement for gender equality, were a reaction to the femonationalist approach to the events pervading the media and the political debate, and attempts to counter arguments which associated the sexual assaults with cultural practices imported through (Muslim) immigration and which demanded (or condoned) stricter immigration laws and state surveillance of Muslims. Then, this article addresses the challenges posed by some feminists from Germany and from North African countries and/or with a Muslim background, who argued that the analysis of Cologne should address the religious-cultural background of the suspects. The article argues that the difficulty in engaging with their contributions in Germany derives from internal pressures, namely the risk of having their arguments co-opted by Islamophobic and anti-immigration agendas. By pointing at the role of positionality in defining priorities in a globalized world, this article addresses the constraints and potentials in developing transnational approaches to sexual violence.

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confidence: 99%