[csaa-forum] New Book - Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities, and Cultures (Doudaki & Carpentier)

[Carpentier Nico]

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Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities, and Cultures
Edited by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier
Publisher: Berghahn Books; 1 edition (November 30, 2017)
ISBN  978-1-78533-724-6 Hb
eISBN 978-1-78533-725-3 eBook

http://berghahnbooks.com/title/DoudakiCyprus

Introduction available at:
http://berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/DoudakiCyprus_intro.pdf


BOOK DESCRIPTION
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 
previous book is The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and 
Community Media Participation.


CONTENTS

Introduction: A Multidisciplinary and Multiperspectival Approach to 
Conflict, by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier.
http://berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/DoudakiCyprus_intro.pdf

PART I: THE MATERIALITY OF CONFLICT IN CYPRUS

Chapter 1. Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus: The Problematic 
Rethinking of a Conflicted Past, by Nico Carpentier
Chapter 2. Soundmarks of Conflict in the City Centre of Divided Nicosia, 
by Yiannis Christidis and Angeliki Gazi
Chapter 3. Bridge Over Troubled…, by Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert
Chapter 4. Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in 
Cyprus: Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and 
Critiques, by Lia-Paschalia Spyridou and Dimitra L. Milioni

PART II: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM WITHIN (NORTH AND SOUTH)

Chapter 5. The ‘Others’ in Peace Talks: Representation of ‘Us’ and 
‘Them’ in the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot Press, by Christophoros 
Christophorou and Sanem Şahin
Chapter 6. Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the 
Cypriot Bailout, by Vaia Doudaki
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, by Christiana Karayianni
Chapter 8. The Cypriot ‘Occupy the Buffer Zone’ Movement: Online 
Discursive Frames and Civic Engagement, by Venetia Papa and Peter Dahlgren

PART III: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM THE OUTSIDE

Chapter 9. Whose Flags are These? Apollon Limassol v. Trabzonspor 
Football Matches in Turkish Online News and User Comments as a Case of 
‘Banal Nationalism’, by D. Beybin Kejanlioglu and Serhat Güney
Chapter 10. A Treasure in Varosha: The Role of a Cypriot Myth in the 
Construction of Turkish Nationalist Identity, by Aysu Arsoy
Chapter 11. Pax Troikana: The U.K. Media and the Symbolic Conflicts on 
the Cypriot ‘Rescue’ Programme, by Giulia Airaghi and Maria Avraamidou
Chapter 12. Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses of the Cypriot 
Economic Crisis by Greek Media, by Yiannis Mylonas

Conclusion: Studying Conflicts in Cyprus: Lessons Learned for Conflict 
Studies, by Nico Carpentier