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- Title
Gendering journalistic voices for gendered political violence? Agential representations of Palestinian female suicide bombers in UK broadcast news media.
- Authors
Kirk, Matthew D.
- Abstract
In the late twentieth century, the rise of the female suicide bomber phenomenon was prevalent in Chechnya, Lebanon and Sri Lanka. Arguably, in terms of academic engagement and visibility within the wider public consciousness, the first wave of Palestinian female suicide bombers during the second intifada (2000–05) encapsulates particular notoriety in relation to the perceived deviance of Palestinian female participation in political violence. Key to this construction is the role of news media as an agent of power. This article examines coverage of Palestinian female suicide bombers during the second intifada period within the scarcely examined medium of British terrestrial broadcast news media. This article determines the impact of individual journalists' gender in producing forms of discourse that delegitimize political agency. In particular, it shall establish if female journalistic voices are complicit in communicating intersectional gendered and Orientalist frameworks.
- Subjects
SRI Lanka; LEBANON; CHECHNIA (Russia); BROADCAST journalism; SUICIDE bombers; POLITICAL violence; POLITICAL participation; PALESTINIANS; GENDER
- Publication
Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 2021, Vol 19, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1601-829X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/nl_00022_1