Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State

The Missing Peace
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-35100-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Journalism

Drawing on the frameworks of peace journalism, this book offers new insights into the Pakistani media coverage of Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan. Based on a three-year-study, the author examines the political, social and economic forces that influence and govern the reporting practices of journalists covering the protracted refugee conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Through a critical discourse analysis of the structures of journalistic iterability of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the author distils four dominant and three emerging frames, and proposes a new teleological turn for peace journalism as deliberative practice, that is to say practice that by promoting transparency and accountability (recognition) and challenging dominant power-proposed narratives and perspectives (resistance) encourages public engagement and participation (cosmopolitan solidarity). The author also privileges an analytical approach that conceptualises the nexus between digital witnessing and peace journalism through the paradigm of cosmopolitanism.

The author finds routinely accommodated media narratives of security that represent Afghan refugees as a ‘threat’, a ‘burden’ and the ‘other’ that, through reinforcement, have become an incontestable reality for the public in Pakistan. This book will appeal to those interested in studying and practicing journalism as a conscientious communicative practice that elicits the very public it seeks to inform.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jehangir, Ayesha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. At the state’s mercy: Afghan refugees and Pakistani media 2. Peace journalism as deliberative practice: ideas and method 3. Afghan refugee as the ‘terrorist’, ‘enemy’ and ‘bad neighbour’ 4. The ‘insider’ becoming the ‘outsider’ 5. Cautious peace journalism: fragmented empathy, social justice and admission 6. Cosmopolitan efficacy of peace journalism: Social media witnessing of Fall of Kabul and Afghan refugee children in Pakistani jails 7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ayesha Jehangir is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Media Transition at the University of Technology Sydney. A journalist-turned academic, Ayesha is a Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Fellow of War and Peace Journalism (Afghanistan, 2012). Her research focuses on mainstream and social media narratives of war, conflict, peace, and refugees.