Value-talk after terrorism: articulating a united ‘we' and a divided ‘us'

Ezzati, Rojan Tordhol

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2020.1752637

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“…is found. This study, therefore, supports the vast majority of the previous ones where "us" tend to be portrayed favorably with more (+) values while "them" is the reverse, in more (-) (Fangen, 2020); (Baron & Dunham, 2015); (Jamil, 2020); (Ezzati, 2021); (Barr et al, 2021); (Kharshiing, 2020); (Cikara et al, 2011) and (Marinthe et al, 2020). This is against the work of valverde (2020) where "us" is featured as more in (-) than (+).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…It was uncovered that in the use of the ghost trope in fictional texts, the ghost embodies "us" as the oppressed reappearing as a haunting figure that questions the established order. Ezzati (2021) conducted a study concerning on whether Muslim immigrants can adapt to Western values after the 2011 terror attacks in Norway. It was revealed that an enlarged 'we' that supersedes ethnic and religious divisions was used to construct "us".…”

Section: Literature Review On Otherization "Us" and "Them"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Us” and “Them” in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: A Critical Functional Approach of Othering

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Garudatama

Ricahyono

2021

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“Us” and “them” or othering often brings about world’s most feared phenomenon, xenophobia. This qualitative study purposes to disclose attitudinal strategies used in Chinua Achebe’s “things Fall Apart”. An excerpt from it was analysed through the “APPRAISAL”, especially the “ATTITUDE”, and ‘PERIODICITY” theories. Results reveal that “us” is framed with 4 (+) values and only 2 in (-) while “them” is constructed through only 1 (+) value and 3 (-). The vast majority of the attitudinal strategies used is “Jdg.”, occurring 7 times making up 70%. The other which emerges is “Apr.” which appears only 3 times and contributes 30%. As commonly held, “us” is narrated in more favors and fewer negatives and “them” in the opposite way to achieve planned hidden goals of persuasion.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Literature Review On Otherization "Us" and "Them"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Us” and “Them” in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: A Critical Functional Approach of Othering

Purnomosasi

Garudatama

Ricahyono

2021

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“…This rhetoric often takes the form of various politicians, academics of other actors trying to identify different sets of values and claiming that these values are somehow 'theirs'. This we can observe statements of British values (Cameron 2014), Norwegian values (Ezzati 2020;Iversen 2012Iversen , 2014, Christian values (Cvijic and Zucca 2004) or African values (Cobbah 1987), and many more.…”

Section: Previous Researchmentioning

confidence: 71%

Controversial Issues and the Rhetoric of Common Values

Iversen

2020

Religions

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In this article, I identify a broad, international ‘rhetoric of common values’, which hinges on the poorly supported assumption that values should be promoted because the sharing of values are the basis for social cohesion in groups. Through discussing two cases, I identify, analyse and critique key features of the empirical phenomenon that I call the rhetoric of common values. The two cases are the British government response to the so-called ’Trojan Horse’ incident in 2014, and Norwegian core curricula since 1974. Previous research has critiqued the use of the term ’fundamental British values’ as being unhelpful when schools teach controversial issues. The results of my analysis provide international breadth, some historical depth and metaphorical structure to our understanding of how the rhetoric of common values is used in education policy today. The article focusses less on dilemmas faced by teachers and more on the context of choice established ‘upstream’ by education policy. I argue that it is timely and important for teachers in religious education to understand the rhetoric of common values. It is a contemporary and politically relevant way in which religion is mobilised and politicised for exclusionary forms of national identity. Avoiding the rhetoric of common values does not mean avoiding values in education policy. The rhetoric of common values identitizes values. This causes the terms ‘values’ to be mobilised in boundary work separating ‘us’ from ‘them’, thus undercutting a better role of values in education policy: to reflect upon, and make relevant in life, guidelines for future action.

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“…This is a crucial point to make, both to inform public debate and academic work. In public debate, one common perspective is that migrants from the Global South are strongly tied to family, ethnic, or religious groups and that these particularistic ties hinder support for liberal democratic institutions (Ezzati forthcoming;Glick Schiller et al 2011). Academic research on transnationalism often takes a narrow approach that only studies the particularistic embeddedness of transnational citizens.…”

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Transnational Citizens, Cosmopolitan Outlooks? Migration as a Route to Cosmopolitanism

Horst

Olsen

2021

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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In this article, we argue that transnational citizens -those international migrants who maintain connections to their country of origin and its diaspora -can be moderate cosmopolitans. We hold the primarily normative idea of cosmopolitanism up against the empirical literature on transnationalism, and show how cosmopolitanism can develop from the migration process itself and the subsequent connection to a diversity of places. We claim that studying migrants who lead transnational lives can increase our knowledge about the compatibility of attachments to particular places or people on the one hand, and cosmopolitan outlooks on the other. It can also correct the narrow focus in European politics as well as in migration studies on ethnic or national values and identities, encouraging a more intersectional approach. We thus aim to contribute to a re-conceptualisation of the relationships between polity, territory, and civic responsibility in culturally and religiously diverse societies in Europe today.

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Value-talk after terrorism: articulating a united ‘we' and a divided ‘us'

Cited by 10 publications

References 72 publications

“Us” and “Them” in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: A Critical Functional Approach of Othering

“Us” and “Them” in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: A Critical Functional Approach of Othering

Controversial Issues and the Rhetoric of Common Values

Transnational Citizens, Cosmopolitan Outlooks? Migration as a Route to Cosmopolitanism

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