2011-2012 YEAR THREE - Cardiff University

Syllabus Content:
Topics to be taught will include: Introduction to Media, Racism and Conflict;
Diversity and Britishness; The Far Right and Social Unrest; Reporting Gun
and Knife Crime; National Security and Migration; Asylum seekers and
Refugees; The Multiculturalism Debate; War on Terror Representations of
Islam; Human Rights and Gender Stereotypes; Challenging Racism
Suggested Reading:
Cottle, S. (2006). Mediatized Conflict. Maidenhead, Berkshire, Open
University Press.
Gilroy, P (2004) After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture?
Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Hage, G. (2003). Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a
Shrinking Society. London, The Merlin Press.
Hall, S., Critcher, C., Jefferson, T., Clarke, J., Roberts, B. (1978) Policing the
Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. Basingstoke: Palgrave
MacMillan.
Lynn, N. and S. Lea (2003). "'A Phantom Menace and the New
Apartheid':Social Construction of Asylum-Seekers in the United Kingdom."
Discourse and Society 14(4): 425-452.
Marsden, L. and H. Savigny, Eds. (2009). Media, Religion and Conflict.
London, Ashgate.
Poole, E. and J. E. Richardson, Eds. (2006). Muslims and the News Media.
London & New York, I.B.Tauris.
Squires, P. (2009). "The knife crime epidemic and British politics." British
Politics 4(1): 127-157
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