Shooting the east/veils and masks: Uncovering orientalism in South African media
In this essay the author analyzes a series of South African newspaper articles on a Cape Town-based group called Pagad (People against Gangsterism and Drugs). The essay draws upon a larger study of the images of Islam in the South African media and reveals that both the Pagad and the media make use...
| Published in: | African and Asian studies |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2002
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| In: |
African and Asian studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Radio program
B Religious identity B Islam B Vigilantes B Formation of opinion B Africa B Newspapers B Effect B Mass media B Population group |
| Summary: | In this essay the author analyzes a series of South African newspaper articles on a Cape Town-based group called Pagad (People against Gangsterism and Drugs). The essay draws upon a larger study of the images of Islam in the South African media and reveals that both the Pagad and the media make use of regressive discourses about Islam. (...) Through the Pagad stories, Muslims in South Africa are treated by the media with an extremely constricted vocabulary which gives little of the suppleness needed to distinguish between Muslims, and the violence enacted in the name of Islam. (...) (AAS/DÜI) |
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| ISSN: | 1569-2094 |
| Contains: | In: African and Asian studies
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