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New Journal Article: The “Refugee Crisis” as a Eurocentric Media Construct: An Exploratory Analysis of Pro-Migrant Media Representations in the Guardian and the New York Times

tripleC 18 (1): 478-493, 2020 http://www.triple-c.at

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1080

The “Refugee Crisis” as a Eurocentric Media Construct: An Exploratory Analysis of Pro-Migrant Media Representations in the Guardian and the New York Times

Maria Avraamidou

University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, mariaavraamidou@gmail.com

Abstract: This article presents a critical analysis of how two elite media publications in the United States and the United Kingdom, the New York Times and the Guardian/Observer re-spectively, represented the so-called European refugee crisis in their editorials. The study fore-grounds a media aporia of why Europe did not abide with human rights and democratic values vis-à-vis the refugee drama and a subsequent nostalgia for a European past of democracy and transnational unity that never really existed. These media representations, although sym-pathetic towards migrants, are inherently Eurocentric, helping to reproduce the existing repres-sive global migration regime because they do not see the crisis as a continuation of its coloni-ality but as a rupture.

Keywords: international media, refugee crisis, migration, Eurocentrism, qualitative media analysis

Acknowledgement: This work was supported by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, Grant Agreement: POST-DOC/0916/0115.

New Paper: Media and Dialogicality-Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Blocking the solution: Social representations of threats and (non)dialogue with alternative representations in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers during peace negotiations

The content sharing link for this article is https://rdcu.be/bDUQE

Maria Avraamidou

Charis Psaltis 

Abstract

This paper first identifies representations of threats in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers related to the negotiations for a Cyprus settlement. Then, it identifies how alternative representations to these core representations of threats are managed through the use of a number of semantic barriers. Therefore, it problematizes the role (function) that such representations of threats play in undermining the potential for transformative dialogue in a post‐conflict and divided country in need of conflict transformation. Focus is on the editorials of two newspapers during a four‐month period before the collapse of the July 2017 Cyprus peace talks. Both were suspicious and polemic vis‐à‐vis the said negotiations but used different strategies to oppose them. Simerini convened recurrently threats such as Turkification, state dissolution and threats against Hellenism. Phileleftheros focused on the issue of security drawing red lines on various dossiers under discussion in the negotiations. The paper contributes to the theoretical debate of the relationship between social representations and identities and the role of threats and historical narratives in undermining transformative dialogue through the use of semantic barriers.

Citation: Avraamidou, M, Psaltis, C. Blocking the solution: Social representations of threats and (non)dialogue with alternative representations in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers during peace negotiations. J Theory Soc Behav.2019; 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12222

New Report: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender content in Greek-Cypriot newspapers: A descriptive analysis between 2011 and 2015.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender content in Greek-Cypriot
newspapers: A descriptive analysis between 2011 and 2015. Available here

New Article in National Identities

Maria Avraamidou (2017) Exploring Greek-Cypriot media representations of national identities in ethnically divided Cyprus: the case of the 2002/2004 Annan Plan negotiations. National Identities, P. 1-23 | Published online: 17 Apr 2017

• This paper explores Greek-Cypriot media representations of national identities during negotiations on a United Nation Plan (the Annan Plan), aiming to reunite ethnically divided Cyprus under a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation. The study analyzed thematically 57 editorials and lead commentaries published in all the daily Greek-Cypriot Press from the presentation of the Annan Plan in November 2002 to April 2004, at which point two simultaneous referenda were held. The study’s findings are consistent with ideas that national identifications are not static and provides an in-depth exploration of exclusive forms of Cypriot identities vis-à-vis more inclusive forms and vis-à-vis hellenocentric identifications.

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Journal Publication Media Nationalism and the Negotiation of Inter-Ethnic Peace in Cyprus

Media Nationalism and the Negotiation of Inter-Ethnic Peace in Cyprus 

Maria Avraamidou and Christopher Kyriakides 

Interesting Postcolonial blog here 'Paul Daley on Australia's national identity and place in the world' theGuardian