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Abstract
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of topics—including public art, urban spaces, and print, broadcast and digital media—it assembles an impressively multifaceted perspective, one that provides broad insights into the complex interplay of culture, conflict, and identity.
Vaia Doudaki is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University. Her research focuses on representations, identities, and discourse in media. Her most recent work on the current economic crisis has been published in journals such as Journalism, European Journal of Communication and Javnost – The Public.
Nico Carpentier is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University, Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Docent at Charles University in Prague. His latest book is The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation.
“While the empirical focus of this book is on the specific context of a divided Cyprus, the authors address a set of issues that extend much further. At the heart of this edited collection is a sophisticated engagement with one of the core dichotomies in social theory, namely that between the symbolic and the material. The contributions address various articulations of this tension in the context of a long-term conflict and show how an analysis of media, broadly defined, helps us to understand the intricate relationship between the two.” · Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics
“This essay collection is a valuable contribution not only to Cyprus specifically, but to conflict studies more broadly. It innovatively combines discursive and material analyses of the Cyprus conflict, providing a forum for distinctive authorial voices while maintaining a coherent, complex, and dynamic theoretical framework.” · Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyprus and Its Conflicts | 1 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Illustrations | 7 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 9 | ||
| Abbreviations | 10 | ||
| Introduction: A Multidisciplinary and Multiperspectival Approach to Conflict | 13 | ||
| Part I — The Materiality of Conflict in Cyprus | 35 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus: The Problematic Rethinking of a Conflicted Past | 37 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Soundmarks of Conflict in the City Centre of Divided Nicosia | 67 | ||
| Chapter 3 — Bridge over Troubled … | 89 | ||
| Chapter 4 — Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus: Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and Critiques | 111 | ||
| Part II — Conflict Representations of Cyprus from Within (North and South) | 133 | ||
| Chapter 5 — The 'Others' in Peace Talks: Representation of 'Us' and 'Them' in the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot Press | 135 | ||
| Chapter 6 — Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Cypriot Bailout | 154 | ||
| Chapter 7 — Challenging the Sacredness of 'the Mediated Centre': The Shift in Media Discourses on Bicommunal Relations in Cyprus after the Crossing Points Opening in 2003 | 175 | ||
| Chapter 8 — The Cypriot 'Occupy the Buffer Zone' Movement: Online Discursive Frames and Civic Engagement | 194 | ||
| Part III — Conflict Representations of Cyprus from the Outside | 215 | ||
| Chapter 9 — Whose Flags Are These? Apollon Limassol vs. Trabzonspor Football Matches in Turkish Online News and User Comments as a Case of 'Banal Nationalism' | 217 | ||
| Chapter 10 — A Treasure in Varosha: The Role of a Cypriot Myth in the Construction of Turkish Nationalist Identity | 240 | ||
| Chapter 11 — Pax Troikana: The U.K. Media and the Symbolic Conflicts of the Cypriot 'Rescue' Programme | 258 | ||
| Chapter 12 — Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses of the Cypriot Economic Crisis by Greek Media | 280 | ||
| Conclusion — Studying Conflicts in Cyprus: Lessons Learned for Conflict Studies | 302 | ||
| Index | 312 |