Overview
- Counters the dominant emphasis on the West in media studies by looking at cultural negotiations of class and poverty in different regions of Europe
- Extends the variety of genres and types of media whose shaming practices are analyzed, by focusing on realms other than reality television – without omitting its substantial role in stigmatization of poverty
- Contributes to the regeneration of the study of class in media and cultural studies
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Without denying that contempt for the destitute Other is an affect found throughout history and in various socioeconomic contexts, the chapters in this book – through their concern with the mediated gaze on class – narrate predominantly the challenges brought about by the media’s spectacular take on poverty and low status as they (at least) coincide with the neoliberal era.
This volume will be essential reading forthe scholars specialising in the study of media and social inequalities form the vantage points of Media Studies, Sociology, Anthropology or European Studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martin Hájek is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. His research interests are normative orders of society, symbolic interactionism, discourse and narrative analysis. He is the author of a monograph on various types of textual analysis and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe
Editors: Irena Reifová, Martin Hájek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73543-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73542-5Published: 06 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73545-6Published: 06 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73543-2Published: 05 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 254
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Culture, European Cinema and TV, Social Structure, Social Inequality