Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation
A Global Landscape

Edited by:

Celine-Marie Pascale - American University, Washington DC, USA

Other Titles in:
Class and Inequality | Social Stratification

November 2012 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This anthology critically analyzes how cultures around the world make social categories of race, class, gender and sexuality meaningful in particular ways. The collection uses a wide range of readings to examine how contemporary issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality are constructed, mobilized, and transformed. Unlike many books in this area, the U.S. is not analytical center. However, for U.S. students this approach allows them to appreciate their personal class system from a more dynamic and ultimately relevant perspective. They will feel compelled to challenge their personal beliefs about inequality and will be encouraged to contemplate how the growing global economy will impact their personal social standings.

This anthology will include 4 sections – race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, wealth/poverty – and approximately 20 total readings. The book, as well as each section, will include comprehensive introductions to frame the international issues for U.S. students.

Celine-Marie Pascale

Introduction

SECTION ONE: CLASS

Martin Power, Amanda Haynes and Eoin Devereaux

1. Class Invisibility and Stigmatization: Irish Media Coverage of a Public Housing Project in Limerick

Viviane de Melo Resende and Viviane Tamalho

2. Inequality and Representation: Critical Discourse Analysis of News Coverage about Homelessness

Roland Terborg and Laura Garcia Landa

3. Poverty and the Survival of Discourses of Discrimination: Otomi Speakers in Mexico

Kevin Whitehead

4. Race-Class Intersections as Interactional Resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa

SECTION TWO: RACE

Natasa Simeunovic Bajic

5. The Representation of Ehtnic-cultural Otherness: The Roma Minority in Serbian Press

Shiao-yun Chiang

6. You Are Trying to Make Race an Issue! Race-baiting and Social Categorizatino in US Immigrant Debates

Hemant Shah

7. Global Media and Cultural Identities: The Case of Indians in Post-Amin Uganda

Jackie Jia Lou

8. Representing and Reconstructing Chinatown: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Place Names in Urban Planning Policies of Washington, DC

SECTION THREE: SEXUALITY

Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree

9. Sexual Citizenship and Suffering Subjects: Media Discourse about Teenage Homosexuality in South Korea

Sanya Osha

10. Hidden Sex: Behind the Veil and in the Forest

Valentina Pagliai

11. The Bad and the Good (Queer) Immigrant in Italian Mass Media

Antke Engel

12. The Surplus of Paradoxes: Queering/Images of Sexuality and Economy

SECTION FOUR: GENDER

Ricarda Drüeke, Susanne Kirchhoff and Elisabeth Klaus

13. Positioning the Veiled Woman: An Analysis of Austrian Press Photographs in the Context of the European Headscarf Debates

Kjerstin Andersson

14. Constructing the Other: Young Men's Talk on Ethnic and Racist Violence

Ebru Sungun

15. Language as a Means of 'Civilizing' Kurdish Women in Turkey

Caesar DeAlvais, Maya Khemlani David and Francisco Perlas Dumanig

16. Contested Identity: Transgendered People in Malaysia

SECTION FIVE: NATION

Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova

17. Language and Identity: Minority Language Policy, Turkish Soap Operas and Language in the Bulgarian Mediascape

Weizhun Mao

18. Tiny Neitzen Mocking Great Firewall: Research on the Discourse of Power and Politics of Representation in China, 2005-2010

Roberta Villalon

19. Framing Extreme Violence: Collective Memory-Making in Argentina

Margarita Astoyants

20. The Changing Dynamics of Political Discourse About Orphans in Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

This collection of essays is engaging and accessible. It provides a clear analysis of inequalities and the politics of representation in a global context, drawing on a wide range of case studies.

Dr Jenny Harding

Media Information and Communications, London Metropolitan Uni (City Campus)

January 8, 2013

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Social inequality and the politics of representation spans a significant range of specific cases relevant to race, class, gender and sexuality on an international level. The range of topics covered supports students to examine the connections in a global context and to interpret the implications of racial, gender and sexual identity in practical terms.

Ms Helen Maher

Department of Social Studies, Carlow College

December 21, 2012

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This is a good book for exploring how representation is often not what it seems.

Dr Christine Corcoran

Faculty of Social Science, The Open University

November 22, 2012

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The book is good, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. It's laid out for class, race, and gender (sexuality), but I'm looking for a book that highlights class, party, and power ala Weber's typology.

Mr Richard Ellefritz

Sociology Dept, Oklahoma State University

October 18, 2012

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