Introduction - Waqas Tufail, Monish Bhatia and Scott Poynting - Introduction for Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance
Chapter 2 - Petre Breazu - Do Roma Lives Matter? A Critical Inquiry into European Media Coverage of violence against Roma.
Chapter 3 - Ana Cristina Pereira, Silvia Roque and Rita Santos - Police Violence, racism and anti-racism: opinion struggles in the Portuguese daily newspapers.
Chapter 4 - Robert Webb and Antje Deckert - Māori, policing, and mass media narratives in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Chapter 5 - Amanda Porter and Conor Hannan - ‘Hero cop’ versus ‘unwanted son’: criminal prosecutions against white police officers in relation to black deaths in custody and the Australian mainstream media
Chapter 6 - Megan McElhone - Immortalising the Golden Age of Middle Eastern Crime’: Police-media liaisons, essentialism, and epistemic violence.
Chapter 7 - Derya Iner - A ‘reasonable’ and ‘excusable’ violence: The spread of anti-Muslim violence through the machinery of media, social media, and trigger events.
Chapter 8 - Micaela Sahhar - Occupied Narrative and the 2021 Unity Intifada.
Chapter 9 - Monish Bhatia and Scott Poynting - A Violent Dream: Importing the ‘Australian Solution’ to the United Kingdom.
Chapter 10 - Margarita Aragon - Policing the Savage Horde: The Texas Rangers and colonial narratives of anti-Mexican violence.
Chapter 11 - Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton - Riots in the Master’s Hall: Racism, Nationalism, and the Crisis of U.S. Hegemony.
Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK.
Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology and in the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Waqas Tufail is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.
This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms, along with the parts played by media actors and institutions in sustaining these phenomena. The chapters present instances of racism from numerous countries in connection with state violence, media coverage of harms and violence against racialised others, including Roma, Palestinians, Indigenous Australians, Maori, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Muslim peoples, Black people in Portugal, Middle-Eastern people in Australia, and asylum seekers. The chapters analyse ideology while paying attention to history and global context, tracing intersectional dynamics including nexuses of racism, class, and gender. They focus on various aspects of violence, including state, colonial and imperialist violence and ideological violence. The book is necessarily interdisciplinary, but explicitly anti-racist and attentive to resistances. It traverses criminology, sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, media studies, history, and cognate fields.
Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK.
Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology and in the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Waqas Tufail is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK.