Collective and Personal Representations of the Crimean Tatars in the Ukrainian Media Discourse: Ideological Implications and Power Relations
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2015
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Bezverkha, Anastasia
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Abstract
This study analyzes the Ukrainian national and Crimean media’s collective and individual
representations of the Crimean Tatar people during 2010-2012. It demonstrates that this media’s
discourse was a sensitive milieu that reflected the unequal power relations between Crimea’s
ethnic groups - the Crimean Tatar minority and the Slavic majority - and informed the way
individuals constructed their identities and social roles within Crimean society. The discursive
mechanisms of the media’s representations of the Crimean Tatars often included indirect
and subtle forms of social exclusion. They also used references to common sense and ethnic
markers to juxtapose the positive "Self"-image and the negative image of the "Other". To portray
the Crimean Tatars as a group that potentially threatens the social order, the media built
a discourse of "the unsatisfied" around the group and its individual representatives.
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media discourse, power relations, social exclusion, collective identity, interethnic relations, article
Citation
Bezverkha A. Collective and Personal Representations of the Crimean Tatars in the Ukrainian Media Discourse : Ideological Implications and Power Relations / Anastasia Bezverkha // Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal. - 2015. - № 1. - P. 135-157.