Gavan Titley
Biographic Data
| ID | 193735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavan Titley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavan |
| FAMILY NAME | Titley |
| SIGNATURE | TITLEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Critical Academy under Attack
Scholars working within different critical theory traditions are not unfamiliar with the experience of encountering dismissive representations of their work, including from parts of the academy that disavow the politics of academic research and knowledge production. However, the political project of delegitimizing critical research and scholarship seems to be intensifying. Signifiers like “critical theory”, “critical race theory” and “gender theo…
Publicness and commoning
In this article, we examine publicness during the pandemic, with a particular focus on the conditions it creates or constricts for engagement, solidarity and collective action. We interrogate the intensive publicness of the crisis to reflect on its assumed and established equation with progressive political possibility - transparency, accountability and democratic procedure. Theoretically, we cut into the contemporary ambiguity of publicness by p…
Shifting Formations, Formative Infrastructures
This introduction to the special issue departs from elaborating on the issues explored in a project examining right-wing politics and “debates” about racism in Finland. It situates the research gathered in the collection in terms of a shared focus on the disparate networks of organised and opportunistic cultural producers that invest time and labour in the production of racialising and othering discourse and aesthetics, and on the modes and forms…
Islamophobia, race and the attack on antiracism
In our work together, going back to the mid-2000s, we have always felt that it was impossible to engage fully with the ever circulating, scavenger nature of race and racism from the narrow Anglo-American vantage point that often predominates and orients public and scholarly discussions. Especially, when attempting to think with and against race in Europe and to excavate the attempts to ‘bury it alive’ we always attempted to seek out the parallels…
Broadcasting the Movement and Branding Political Microcelebrities
This paper examines how the video-sharing platform YouTube was utilized by networks of anti-immigration activists that began emerging in Finland during the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. By combining network analysis with qualitative analysis, we identified three central strategies of video activism: movement building through documentation, discursive controversy generation, and personal branding practices. These strategies are firmly supporte…
The distribution of nationalist and racist discourse
The abstract is included in the text
Gavan Titley's Racism and Media
In the current conjuncture the role of the media in popularizing and, sometimes, shaping public discourses and debates about race and racism. As we have seen over the past two decades or so questio
Racism and media, in a moment of crisis and opportunity
This article provides the author's reply to the four book responses by Dreher, Georgiou, James and Saha. The discussion focuses on how their analytical engagement with the book's treatment of the ambivalences of digital media culture raise pertinent questions for focusing on anti-racism in media work and practices. It does so while reflecting on the extraordinary conditions of antiracist protest and revolt during which it was written in June 2020
Racism and Media
The meanings of racism
Understandings of racism are produced and circulated in contemporary networked media forms, contributing new opportunities to both extend and challenge racializing discourses, images and frameworks. This study investigated how the concept of racism is used in Finnish public debate by employing a computational text analysis technique to derive topics related to racism from a large corpus of news media content and online discussion forum comments. …
Taboo news about Sweden
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of Sweden as a racialised spatial imaginary in the emerging transnational networks of far-right media production. Departing from President Donald Trump’s widely reported remarks, in 2017, as to “what happened last night in Sweden”, it examines the racializing discourses through which Sweden is constructed as a dark future to be averted; a failed social experiment in immigration and …
Pitstop of Death’
The airport at Shannon, County Clare, in the west of Ireland, has been a strategically important US military stopping-point in the wars of the twenty-first century and consequently has at times become a focal point for the various forms of protest that have been adopted by the Irish peace movement. This study, drawing upon a database of Irish national newspaper articles dealing with the anti-war movement from September 2002 to May 2003 – a period…
After Charlie Hebdo
As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a war that has split across nations and continents. The attacks set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously divided. These developments raise profound questions about a number of…
These people protesting might not be so strident if their own jobs were on the line’
In this article, the authors examine the ways in which the social movement in Ireland opposed to the Iraq war was represented in the national press. The article draws upon data generated by the largest research project of its type ever conducted in an Irish context. The authors considered representations of the anti-war movement in 11 daily and Sunday newspapers over a period of 9 months. One of the principal threads that ran through newspaper co…
On Are we all postracial yet
If the postracial is a coherent formation, it is produced not by ideological lockstep but by distributed affinities and relations in a transnational space of interconnection and exchange. The neoliberal erasure of ' ...the structural conditions of racial reproduction and racist articulation' (34) and the clouding of the historicity of racisms produces postraciality as 'the illusion that the dream of the nonracial has already been realized' (180).…
Mourning and longing
In her essay ‘Neoliberalism and the end of liberal democracy’, Wendy Brown suggests that critical political theory needs to ‘mourn liberal democracy’ in order to develop a transformative vision of ‘the good’. The problem, as Brown outlines it, is not only that – to varying extents and in different scales across democratic states – market rationality has hollowed out representative structures and processes and organizes social life but also that ‘…
National Conversations
No apologies for cross-posting
This article proposes points of departure for researching the circulation and assemblage of racist ideas and racializing discourses in the trans-media space of interactive, hybrid digital media. It contends that racist mobilizations are increasingly invested in organized and opportunistic communicative actions that depend on the integration of interactive digital media to a wider media ecology and European political environment. Further, if socia…
After the end of multiculturalism
This article assesses the public service media (PSM) ‘turn to diversity’ in several European contexts and examines the ways in which this emerges from a rejection of multiculturalism that is at once politically sustained and analytically inchoate. It approaches PSM as national institutions conditioned to mediate coherent images of society. In contemporary European societies, this positions PSM in a field in which integrationist imaginaries of the…
Technology and the Question of Empowerment
Since Al Gore, in his own words, took "the initiative in creating the internet" two decades ago, much has been written about the way we produce, consume, participate, think, and live with digital media and "new" communication technologies (CNN, 1999).Gore's claim was, of course, widely parodied, but while his gallant claim has become a glib footnote in internet history, the heroic narrative of epochal transformation that he attempted to write him…
Ideology critique
Taking our bearings from Stuart Hall’s essay from 1982, ‘The rediscovery of “ideology”: return of the repressed in media studies’, we argue in this discussion piece for the need to pick up the tools of ideology critique once again. Quite simply, the contemporary moment where accelerating inequality is masked by blame of the poor and of migrants demands it. The case is made first through a critique of ideological responses to the economic crisis a…
They Called a War, and Someone Came
This article examines the intensely mediated debate on the relationship between ideological affinity and political implication that followed the documenting of the 'citational ecology' of Breivik's 2083 compendium. Focusing on the recurring trope of war in counter-jihad blog posts and mainstream media comment, it argues that the invocation of 'war' is important beyond limiting debates on incitement and 'moral responsibility'. Following Butler (20…
The crisis of ‘multiculturalism’ in Europe
During the last decade, European countries have declared a ‘crisis’ of multiculturalism. This crisis has gained significant political traction, despite the empirical absence of a failed experiment with multiculturalism. This introduction focuses on the narrative of multicultural backlash, which purports that ‘parallel societies’ and ‘intolerable subjects’ and practices have been allowed to flourish within European societies. Beyond particular con…
Budgetjam! A communications intervention in the political-economic crisis in Ireland
This essay reflects on a communications intervention organized immediately following the ‘bailout’ provided to Ireland by the troika of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB), and preceding the implementation of an ‘austerity’ budget designed to further the transfer of banking debt to the sovereign. Reacting to the steadfast official narrative that ‘there is no alternative’, and the gene…
Getting integration right? Media transnationalism anddomopoliticsin Ireland
This article examines the transnational media environments and experiences of Nigerian and Chinese nationals living in Ireland. It theorizes empirical research in the context of the mode of integration governance developed in the Republic of Ireland during a period of significant in-migration. Building on a theory of domopolitics, it suggests that Ireland's short-lived integration regime deployed culture and interculturalism as resources for the …
The crisis of ‘multiculturalism’ in Europe
During the last decade, European countries have declared a ‘crisis’ of multiculturalism. This crisis has gained significant political traction, despite the empirical absence of a failed experiment with multiculturalism. This introduction focuses on the narrative of multicultural backlash, which purports that ‘parallel societies’ and ‘intolerable subjects’ and practices have been allowed to flourish within European societies. Beyond particular con…
Budgetjam! A communications intervention in the political-economic crisis in Ireland
This essay reflects on a communications intervention organized immediately following the ‘bailout’ provided to Ireland by the troika of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB), and preceding the implementation of an ‘austerity’ budget designed to further the transfer of banking debt to the sovereign. Reacting to the steadfast official narrative that ‘there is no alternative’, and the gene…
On Are we all postracial yet
If the postracial is a coherent formation, it is produced not by ideological lockstep but by distributed affinities and relations in a transnational space of interconnection and exchange. The neoliberal erasure of ' ...the structural conditions of racial reproduction and racist articulation' (34) and the clouding of the historicity of racisms produces postraciality as 'the illusion that the dream of the nonracial has already been realized' (180).…
Ideology critique
Taking our bearings from Stuart Hall’s essay from 1982, ‘The rediscovery of “ideology”: return of the repressed in media studies’, we argue in this discussion piece for the need to pick up the tools of ideology critique once again. Quite simply, the contemporary moment where accelerating inequality is masked by blame of the poor and of migrants demands it. The case is made first through a critique of ideological responses to the economic crisis a…
The meanings of racism
Understandings of racism are produced and circulated in contemporary networked media forms, contributing new opportunities to both extend and challenge racializing discourses, images and frameworks. This study investigated how the concept of racism is used in Finnish public debate by employing a computational text analysis technique to derive topics related to racism from a large corpus of news media content and online discussion forum comments. …
Taboo news about Sweden
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of Sweden as a racialised spatial imaginary in the emerging transnational networks of far-right media production. Departing from President Donald Trump’s widely reported remarks, in 2017, as to “what happened last night in Sweden”, it examines the racializing discourses through which Sweden is constructed as a dark future to be averted; a failed social experiment in immigration and …
No apologies for cross-posting
This article proposes points of departure for researching the circulation and assemblage of racist ideas and racializing discourses in the trans-media space of interactive, hybrid digital media. It contends that racist mobilizations are increasingly invested in organized and opportunistic communicative actions that depend on the integration of interactive digital media to a wider media ecology and European political environment. Further, if socia…
Shifting Formations, Formative Infrastructures
This introduction to the special issue departs from elaborating on the issues explored in a project examining right-wing politics and “debates” about racism in Finland. It situates the research gathered in the collection in terms of a shared focus on the disparate networks of organised and opportunistic cultural producers that invest time and labour in the production of racialising and othering discourse and aesthetics, and on the modes and forms…
Critical Academy under Attack
Scholars working within different critical theory traditions are not unfamiliar with the experience of encountering dismissive representations of their work, including from parts of the academy that disavow the politics of academic research and knowledge production. However, the political project of delegitimizing critical research and scholarship seems to be intensifying. Signifiers like “critical theory”, “critical race theory” and “gender theo…
Publicness and commoning
In this article, we examine publicness during the pandemic, with a particular focus on the conditions it creates or constricts for engagement, solidarity and collective action. We interrogate the intensive publicness of the crisis to reflect on its assumed and established equation with progressive political possibility - transparency, accountability and democratic procedure. Theoretically, we cut into the contemporary ambiguity of publicness by p…
Islamophobia, race and the attack on antiracism
In our work together, going back to the mid-2000s, we have always felt that it was impossible to engage fully with the ever circulating, scavenger nature of race and racism from the narrow Anglo-American vantage point that often predominates and orients public and scholarly discussions. Especially, when attempting to think with and against race in Europe and to excavate the attempts to ‘bury it alive’ we always attempted to seek out the parallels…
After the end of multiculturalism
This article assesses the public service media (PSM) ‘turn to diversity’ in several European contexts and examines the ways in which this emerges from a rejection of multiculturalism that is at once politically sustained and analytically inchoate. It approaches PSM as national institutions conditioned to mediate coherent images of society. In contemporary European societies, this positions PSM in a field in which integrationist imaginaries of the…
Getting integration right? Media transnationalism anddomopoliticsin Ireland
This article examines the transnational media environments and experiences of Nigerian and Chinese nationals living in Ireland. It theorizes empirical research in the context of the mode of integration governance developed in the Republic of Ireland during a period of significant in-migration. Building on a theory of domopolitics, it suggests that Ireland's short-lived integration regime deployed culture and interculturalism as resources for the …
Gavan Titley's Racism and Media
In the current conjuncture the role of the media in popularizing and, sometimes, shaping public discourses and debates about race and racism. As we have seen over the past two decades or so questio
Racism and media, in a moment of crisis and opportunity
This article provides the author's reply to the four book responses by Dreher, Georgiou, James and Saha. The discussion focuses on how their analytical engagement with the book's treatment of the ambivalences of digital media culture raise pertinent questions for focusing on anti-racism in media work and practices. It does so while reflecting on the extraordinary conditions of antiracist protest and revolt during which it was written in June 2020
Technology and the Question of Empowerment
Since Al Gore, in his own words, took "the initiative in creating the internet" two decades ago, much has been written about the way we produce, consume, participate, think, and live with digital media and "new" communication technologies (CNN, 1999).Gore's claim was, of course, widely parodied, but while his gallant claim has become a glib footnote in internet history, the heroic narrative of epochal transformation that he attempted to write him…
They Called a War, and Someone Came
This article examines the intensely mediated debate on the relationship between ideological affinity and political implication that followed the documenting of the 'citational ecology' of Breivik's 2083 compendium. Focusing on the recurring trope of war in counter-jihad blog posts and mainstream media comment, it argues that the invocation of 'war' is important beyond limiting debates on incitement and 'moral responsibility'. Following Butler (20…
The distribution of nationalist and racist discourse
The abstract is included in the text
Mourning and longing
In her essay ‘Neoliberalism and the end of liberal democracy’, Wendy Brown suggests that critical political theory needs to ‘mourn liberal democracy’ in order to develop a transformative vision of ‘the good’. The problem, as Brown outlines it, is not only that – to varying extents and in different scales across democratic states – market rationality has hollowed out representative structures and processes and organizes social life but also that ‘…
The “War on Terror” and Non-alignment
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The Crises of Multiculturalism
Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval practices subverting national ‘ways of life’ and universal values. This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the ri…
Circuits of Aversion
Since ‘9/11’, commentators, politicians and media discourse in a range of European contexts have increasingly drawn on narratives of the ‘crisis of multiculturalism’ to make sense of a broad range of events and political developments. For all this focus, multiculturalism has rarely amounted to more than a patchwork of initiatives, rhetoric and aspirations in any context, and has been subject to a long and well-documented history of ‘backlash’. Mu…
The crisis of ‘multiculturalism’ in Europe
During the last decade, European countries have declared a ‘crisis’ of multiculturalism. This crisis has gained significant political traction, despite the empirical absence of a failed experiment with multiculturalism. This introduction focuses on the narrative of multicultural backlash, which purports that ‘parallel societies’ and ‘intolerable subjects’ and practices have been allowed to flourish within European societies. Beyond particular con…
Budgetjam! A communications intervention in the political-economic crisis in Ireland
This essay reflects on a communications intervention organized immediately following the ‘bailout’ provided to Ireland by the troika of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB), and preceding the implementation of an ‘austerity’ budget designed to further the transfer of banking debt to the sovereign. Reacting to the steadfast official narrative that ‘there is no alternative’, and the gene…
Getting integration right? Media transnationalism anddomopoliticsin Ireland
This article examines the transnational media environments and experiences of Nigerian and Chinese nationals living in Ireland. It theorizes empirical research in the context of the mode of integration governance developed in the Republic of Ireland during a period of significant in-migration. Building on a theory of domopolitics, it suggests that Ireland's short-lived integration regime deployed culture and interculturalism as resources for the …
They Called a War, and Someone Came
This article examines the intensely mediated debate on the relationship between ideological affinity and political implication that followed the documenting of the 'citational ecology' of Breivik's 2083 compendium. Focusing on the recurring trope of war in counter-jihad blog posts and mainstream media comment, it argues that the invocation of 'war' is important beyond limiting debates on incitement and 'moral responsibility'. Following Butler (20…
National Conversations
No apologies for cross-posting
This article proposes points of departure for researching the circulation and assemblage of racist ideas and racializing discourses in the trans-media space of interactive, hybrid digital media. It contends that racist mobilizations are increasingly invested in organized and opportunistic communicative actions that depend on the integration of interactive digital media to a wider media ecology and European political environment. Further, if socia…
After the end of multiculturalism
This article assesses the public service media (PSM) ‘turn to diversity’ in several European contexts and examines the ways in which this emerges from a rejection of multiculturalism that is at once politically sustained and analytically inchoate. It approaches PSM as national institutions conditioned to mediate coherent images of society. In contemporary European societies, this positions PSM in a field in which integrationist imaginaries of the…
Technology and the Question of Empowerment
Since Al Gore, in his own words, took "the initiative in creating the internet" two decades ago, much has been written about the way we produce, consume, participate, think, and live with digital media and "new" communication technologies (CNN, 1999).Gore's claim was, of course, widely parodied, but while his gallant claim has become a glib footnote in internet history, the heroic narrative of epochal transformation that he attempted to write him…
Ideology critique
Taking our bearings from Stuart Hall’s essay from 1982, ‘The rediscovery of “ideology”: return of the repressed in media studies’, we argue in this discussion piece for the need to pick up the tools of ideology critique once again. Quite simply, the contemporary moment where accelerating inequality is masked by blame of the poor and of migrants demands it. The case is made first through a critique of ideological responses to the economic crisis a…
Mourning and longing
In her essay ‘Neoliberalism and the end of liberal democracy’, Wendy Brown suggests that critical political theory needs to ‘mourn liberal democracy’ in order to develop a transformative vision of ‘the good’. The problem, as Brown outlines it, is not only that – to varying extents and in different scales across democratic states – market rationality has hollowed out representative structures and processes and organizes social life but also that ‘…
These people protesting might not be so strident if their own jobs were on the line’
In this article, the authors examine the ways in which the social movement in Ireland opposed to the Iraq war was represented in the national press. The article draws upon data generated by the largest research project of its type ever conducted in an Irish context. The authors considered representations of the anti-war movement in 11 daily and Sunday newspapers over a period of 9 months. One of the principal threads that ran through newspaper co…
On Are we all postracial yet
If the postracial is a coherent formation, it is produced not by ideological lockstep but by distributed affinities and relations in a transnational space of interconnection and exchange. The neoliberal erasure of ' ...the structural conditions of racial reproduction and racist articulation' (34) and the clouding of the historicity of racisms produces postraciality as 'the illusion that the dream of the nonracial has already been realized' (180).…
After Charlie Hebdo
As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a war that has split across nations and continents. The attacks set in motion a steady creep towards ever more repressive state surveillance, and have fuelled the resurgence of the far right across Europe and beyond, while leaving the left dangerously divided. These developments raise profound questions about a number of…
Pitstop of Death’
The airport at Shannon, County Clare, in the west of Ireland, has been a strategically important US military stopping-point in the wars of the twenty-first century and consequently has at times become a focal point for the various forms of protest that have been adopted by the Irish peace movement. This study, drawing upon a database of Irish national newspaper articles dealing with the anti-war movement from September 2002 to May 2003 – a period…
Racism and Media
The meanings of racism
Understandings of racism are produced and circulated in contemporary networked media forms, contributing new opportunities to both extend and challenge racializing discourses, images and frameworks. This study investigated how the concept of racism is used in Finnish public debate by employing a computational text analysis technique to derive topics related to racism from a large corpus of news media content and online discussion forum comments. …
Taboo news about Sweden
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of Sweden as a racialised spatial imaginary in the emerging transnational networks of far-right media production. Departing from President Donald Trump’s widely reported remarks, in 2017, as to “what happened last night in Sweden”, it examines the racializing discourses through which Sweden is constructed as a dark future to be averted; a failed social experiment in immigration and …
Broadcasting the Movement and Branding Political Microcelebrities
This paper examines how the video-sharing platform YouTube was utilized by networks of anti-immigration activists that began emerging in Finland during the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. By combining network analysis with qualitative analysis, we identified three central strategies of video activism: movement building through documentation, discursive controversy generation, and personal branding practices. These strategies are firmly supporte…
The distribution of nationalist and racist discourse
The abstract is included in the text
Gavan Titley's Racism and Media
In the current conjuncture the role of the media in popularizing and, sometimes, shaping public discourses and debates about race and racism. As we have seen over the past two decades or so questio
Racism and media, in a moment of crisis and opportunity
This article provides the author's reply to the four book responses by Dreher, Georgiou, James and Saha. The discussion focuses on how their analytical engagement with the book's treatment of the ambivalences of digital media culture raise pertinent questions for focusing on anti-racism in media work and practices. It does so while reflecting on the extraordinary conditions of antiracist protest and revolt during which it was written in June 2020
Shifting Formations, Formative Infrastructures
This introduction to the special issue departs from elaborating on the issues explored in a project examining right-wing politics and “debates” about racism in Finland. It situates the research gathered in the collection in terms of a shared focus on the disparate networks of organised and opportunistic cultural producers that invest time and labour in the production of racialising and othering discourse and aesthetics, and on the modes and forms…
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Law (23 works) · Politics (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Media studies (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (10 works)