[Bilimsel Haber] [ecrea] Workshop: Muslim Media and the War on Terror

[Nazan Haydari]

Call for Papers

Muslim Media and the 'War on Terror'** 6-7 July 2006
>Department of Politics, University of Bristol
Although there has been considerable research,
particularly since September 11, on media
representations of terrorism, the war on 
terror, anti-terrorist security policy, Islam, and so
on, these analyses overwhelmingly focus on the
mainstream Western press. In this workshop, and the
edited book to issue from it, we shift attention
explicitly to the analysis of Muslim media* and their
representations.

Papers are welcome on a wide range of topics relating
to Muslim media and the 'war on terror'. We are
particularly interested in studies of Muslim 
>media in the diaspora -- in Europe, the United
States, and elsewhere - but papers on media in 'Muslim
countries' (those with Muslim traditions in both the
Arab and non-Arab worlds) or papers comparing Muslim
and non-Muslim media are also very welcome. Papers can
focus on single countries, or make comparisons between
and among countries. We also encourage authors to
consider diverse forms of media -- printed, televised,
online - or to compare and contrast among them.

We hope that these papers will engender a wide-ranging
discussion of the role of Muslim media of all kinds in
generating discourses about, and/or 
>attitudes among Muslims towards (among other things)
>§ The contemporary war on terrorism
>§ Its attendant anti-terrorist security policies
>§ The nature of Muslim-non-Muslim relations
>§ The status of Islam, in the countries of diaspora
or in the Muslim 
world*
>§ The relation of Islam to 'the West' or to terrorism
>§ The implications of these representations for
diverse Muslim 
communities
>
>Central questions that might be asked include:
>§ How do Muslim media, in the Muslim world or in the
diaspora, 
represent 
>the terrorism, the war on terrorism, anti-terrorist
security policies, and so on?
§ Do Muslim media in the diaspora represent these
differently than media from within the Muslim world?
§ How do Muslim media within the diaspora differ among
themselves, across states or across different media?
§ What effect do the representations in diverse Muslim
media have on the communities in which they are read
or viewed?

* Authors are encouraged also to be critical of the
concepts deployed 
in this call for papers, including the notion of
'Muslim media' and the 
>'Muslim world' itself.
>
>The workshop will take place at the University of
Bristol, Department 
of 
>Politics, on 6-7 July 2006.
>
>Please submit abstracts to Jutta Weldes 
>(<mailto:jutta.weldes at bris.ac.uk>jutta.weldes at bris.ac.uk)
and Gennaro 
>Gervasio
(<mailto:g.gervasio at bris.ac.uk>g.gervasio at bris.ac.uk)
by April 15 (or as soon as possible). For more
information, also please contact 
Jutta Weldes or Gennaro Gervasio.

** This workshop is sponsored by the ESRC New Security
Challenges Programme grant RES-223-25-0056.
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