Representing Communities

1. Introduction: Communities, Discourse and Contexts
Ruth Sanz Sabido

Part I. Challenging the System

2. Constructing Community: Notes on a Slippery Concept
Rinella Cere

3. Transforming the Politics of Gender and Voice: Strategies of Expertise and Experience
Anita Biressi, Heather Nunn

4. Populism, “Community” and Political Culture: The Revenge of the Liberal Elite
Stuart Price

5. Discursive Colonialism: German Settler Communities, Their Media and Infrastructure in Africa, 1898–1914
Corinna Schäfer

Part II. Representing Communities, Perpetuating Inequality

6. Legitimising Political Homophobia: Sexual Minorities and Russian Television News
Anna Khlusova

7. Interrogating Representations and Misrepresentations of Violence: The Contested Identities of Generation 1.5 Somalis in Melbourne
Elizabeth Lakey

8. News Coverage of a Women’s Hunger Strike Against “Chauvinist Violence”
Ruth Sanz Sabido

9. Egresses: Countering Stereotypes of Blackness and Disability Through Horrorcore and Krip Hop
Mikko O. Koivisto

Part III. Communities and their Contexts

10. New Orleans, Food, Race and Gender on Television: Frank’s Place and Treme

Robin Roberts

11. Partiality, Patriotism and Propaganda: Aggregating Local News Sources in Ukraine
Richard Pendry

12. Constructing “Ordinary People” on British Television: Notes on the Politics of Representation
Rosalind Brunt

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policy and Politics, Social Structure, Social Inequality