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Title: | Space construction in media reporting: A study of the migrant space in the 'Jungles' of Calais |
Authors: | Ibrahim, Y Howarth, A |
Keywords: | Migration;Journalism;Spatialization;Social cartography |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Citation: | Fast Capitalism, 12 (1),(2015) |
Abstract: | Media are intrinsically implicated in constructing and framing space as well as in the imagination of communities. This paper examines how media through the spatial construct of the ‘jungle’ premises the discourses of migration between the borders of UK and France. We argue that newspapers impose a cartography by invoking a social imaginary of a bounded community sustained through imagined boundaries. Metaphors such as the ‘jungle’ function as spatialisation techniques to not only renew the sacrosanct boundaries of a nation-state, but they also become instrumental tools in invoking fear, anxiety and the visceral in migrant discourses. Conceptually, the paper argues that media sustains ‘an imagined community’ by techniques of spatialisation which encode politics of space in migrant discourses. These discourses are central in sustaining and enacting a social imaginary, where space framing and construction become tools to imagine and locate communities and to exclude the ‘other’. |
URI: | http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/12_1/Ibrahim-Howarth-Space-Construction.htm http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11323 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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