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Reporting Iraq's cosmopolitan society in the Australian print media : The case of the Assyrian church bombings
A series of bomb blasts that targeted a number of Assyrian churches in Baghdad and Mosul last year were reported in the Australian media and seemed to hint at the complexity of Iraq’s cosmopolitan society. This paper seeks to compare and contrast the representation of these events in four of Australia’s leading newspapers (The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald) by using a multi-methodological approach. The analysis reveals that Australian print coverage falls short of detailing the complexities of Iraq’s cosmopolitan society and therefore engenders an Orientalist (Said, 1978) discourse that constructs the Assyrians as powerless and anonymous victims.
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Sites of Cosmopolitanism Conference (2005 : Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland)Pagination
1 - 16Publisher
Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith UniversityLocation
Brisbane, QueenslandPlace of publication
Nathan, Qld.Start date
2009-07-06End date
2009-07-08Language
engNotes
Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.Publication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2005, Griffith UniversityEditor/Contributor(s)
I Woodward, D EllisonTitle of proceedings
Sites of Cosmopolitanism Conference, Brisbane, July 6-8 2005, Griffith University : conference papersUsage metrics
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