How are the structures of power and the notion of agency among Syrian women during the recent Syrian conflict connected? To explore this matter, Rand El Zein investigates gender politics around displacement, conflict, the body, and the nation. In doing so, she outstandingly reconciles critical media theory as myriad and productive with the theoretical concepts on subjectivity, power, performativity, neoliberalism, and humanitarian governance. The book examines how the Arab television news discursively represented the experiences of Syrian women during the conflict in relation to the four main concepts: violence, vulnerability, resilience, and resistance.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 206
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Critical Studies in Media and Communication
Publication Date:
27 November 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837659597
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Rand El Zein, born in 1991, is a researcher from Beirut, Lebanon. She received her PhD in communication studies at Universität Salzburg and her MA in Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. Her research focuses on Arab media, feminist theory, and cultural studies.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Tables 13
Acknowledgements 15
1. Introduction 17
2. Theoretical Framework 33
3. Methodology 47
4. Arab Television News Coverage of Former Female Syrian Prisoners in Exile: The Intersection of Shame, Violence, and Stigma 61
5. Rethinking the Relationship between Child Marriage and Failed Infrastructure during the Syrian Conflict 79
6. Displaced Syrian Women at Work: Everyday Resilience and the Neoliberal Subjec 97
7. 'Mothers of the Nation': The Ambivalent Role of Motherhood in Assad's Syria and the Non-liberatory Subject 123
8. The Construction of Syrian Women in the Arab Television News 151
9. From Dominant Media Frames to Spaces of Appearance 165
10. Concluding Remarks 181
Bibliography 187
