Tag: othering
Call for Papers | “Re/Presenting Europe and Europeans in Twentieth Century Media – A critical examination”, Special Issue of TMG – Journal for Media History | Call ends April 30,...
Mainstream media have produced and circulated dominant representations of who is European and has a rightful place in Europe. Although the domain of popular culture promises egalitarian and democratic representation, in practice, mainstream coverage of major sporting fixtures and popular music has historically offered simplistic or stereotyping portrayals of the complex and differentiated “othered” groups that contribute to European culture. We, therefore, invite submissions that re-examine media representations of popular culture through a critical lens.
Public defence of doctoral thesis | Decolonial re-existence and sports: Stories of Afghan youth in Sweden | Sepandarmaz Mashreghi, Malmö University, September 3, 2021
Grounded in Indigenous, borderland, Chicana and Black feminist knowledges as well decolonial thought, Sepandarmaz Mashreghi’s thesis contributes both theoretically and methodologically to the field of sport and exercise in relation to young asylum seekers and migration research. The participatory analysis demonstrates that for the Afghan youth in this study, sport and physical activity was not a distinct entity, rather it was intertwined with various aspects of their lives.
