Anita Howarth
Biographic Data
| ID | 245208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Howarth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Howarth |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0102-6096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Space Construction in Media Reporting: A Study of the Migrant Space in the ‘Jungles’ of Calais
Lecture Capture Policies: A Survey of British Universities
The integration of digital and convergent technologies into the classroom poses policy level challenges for universities, as these constitute a wider process of digitalization and marketization of the higher education institutions (HEIs) ranging from open access publishing to augmenting pedagogy through learning platforms. Digital technologies not only augment teaching and learning, they present HEIs with a multitude of challenges from copyright …
A British national scandal: Hunger, foodbanks, and the deployment of a Dickensian trope
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Contemporary European Studies on 20 Oct 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2020.1839395
The Munchetty controversy: Empire, race, and the BBC
In September 2019, Naga Munchetty, a BBC presenter, was charged by the corporation as having breached its guidelines in sharing her personal experience of racism in reaction to Donald Trump's “Go Back” outburst at four female political opponents, an incident understood worldwide as a racist attack. The BBC, acting on complaints from some viewers, upheld that Munchetty had partially breached its journalistic guidelines in speaking about her experi…
Hunger strike and the force-feeding chair: Guantanamo Bay and corporeal surrender
Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this paper examines the camp as a site of necropolitics where bodies inhabit the space of the Muselmann - a figure Agamben invokes in Auschwitz to capture the predicament of the living dead. Sites of incarceration produce an aesthetic of torture and the force-feeding chair embodies the disciplining of the body and the extraction of pain while imposing the bi…
Calais and Its Border Politics
Communicating the ‘migrant’ other as risk: Space, EU and expanding borders
Forced migration and border spaces as fault lines posing risks to society through the notion of ‘Othering’, remain under-explored in risk literature. With Europe facing its biggest humanitarian crisis with forced migration and displacement due to conflict zones, the borders of the European Union have received renewed attention in media. Refugees and the displaced are often depicted as ‘migrants’ and are seen as transgressing borders as illegitima…
Contamination, deception and 'othering: The Media Framing of the Horsemeat Scandal
Food and consumption practices are cultural symbols of communities, nations, identity and a collective imaginary which bind people in complex ways. The media framed the 2013 horsemeat scandal by fusing discourses beyond the politics of food. Three recurrent media frames and dominant discourses converged with wider political debates and cultural stereotypes in circulation in the media around immigration and intertextual discourse on historical foo…
Constructing the Eastern European Other: The Horsemeat Scandal and the Migrant Other
The Horsemeat scandal in the UK in 2013 ignited a furore about consumer deception and the bodily transgression of consuming something so alien to the British psyche. The imagination of the horse as a noble and mythic figure in British history and sociological imagination was invoked to construct the consumption of horsemeat as a social taboo and an immoral proposition in the British media debates. This paper traces the horsemeat scandal and its m…
Governing risks and benefits: Mobile communication technologies in British universities
Mobile communication technologies (MCTs) pose new opportunities and challenges to university governance. Not only are the devices widespread, they have particular capabilities and constantly changing uses which makes any governing of them difficult. Furthermore most devices are individually owned. Thus universities are unable to directly control how they are used but do have a duty of care towards those learning and teaching within their spaces. …
A ‘superstorm’: When moral panic and new risk discourses converge in the media
There has been a proliferation of risk discourses in recent decades but studies of these have been polarised, drawing either on moral panic or new risk frameworks to analyse journalistic discourses. This article opens the theoretical possibility that the two may co-exist and converge in the same scare. I do this by bringing together more recent developments in moral panic thesis, with new risk theory and the concept of media logic. I then apply t…
The weakest link in existing studies: Media–government risk interactions
This article argues that media-government interactions are critical to the trajectory of risk debates. These interactions are dynamic, entailing multi-faceted shifts in responses and counter-responses –positions, arguments/discourses/representations and actions – during the course of a scare. An exploration of such dynamics in the political-media complex is likely to tell us much about how their shifting relationship, roles and engagements influe…
Participatory Politics, Environmental Journalism and Newspaper Campaigns
This article explores the extent to which approaches to participatory politics might offer a more useful alternative to understanding the role of environmental journalism in a society where the old certainties have collapsed, only to be replaced by acute uncertainty. This uncertainty not only generates acute public anxiety about risks, it has also undermined confidence in the validity of long-standing premises about the ideal role of the media in…
Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization
J. S. Juris Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780822342694, 378 pp. Academic and activist interest in movement
Hunger strike and the force-feeding chair: Guantanamo Bay and corporeal surrender
Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this paper examines the camp as a site of necropolitics where bodies inhabit the space of the Muselmann - a figure Agamben invokes in Auschwitz to capture the predicament of the living dead. Sites of incarceration produce an aesthetic of torture and the force-feeding chair embodies the disciplining of the body and the extraction of pain while imposing the bi…
Participatory Politics, Environmental Journalism and Newspaper Campaigns
This article explores the extent to which approaches to participatory politics might offer a more useful alternative to understanding the role of environmental journalism in a society where the old certainties have collapsed, only to be replaced by acute uncertainty. This uncertainty not only generates acute public anxiety about risks, it has also undermined confidence in the validity of long-standing premises about the ideal role of the media in…
Communicating the ‘migrant’ other as risk: Space, EU and expanding borders
Forced migration and border spaces as fault lines posing risks to society through the notion of ‘Othering’, remain under-explored in risk literature. With Europe facing its biggest humanitarian crisis with forced migration and displacement due to conflict zones, the borders of the European Union have received renewed attention in media. Refugees and the displaced are often depicted as ‘migrants’ and are seen as transgressing borders as illegitima…
The Munchetty controversy: Empire, race, and the BBC
In September 2019, Naga Munchetty, a BBC presenter, was charged by the corporation as having breached its guidelines in sharing her personal experience of racism in reaction to Donald Trump's “Go Back” outburst at four female political opponents, an incident understood worldwide as a racist attack. The BBC, acting on complaints from some viewers, upheld that Munchetty had partially breached its journalistic guidelines in speaking about her experi…
Contamination, deception and 'othering: The Media Framing of the Horsemeat Scandal
Food and consumption practices are cultural symbols of communities, nations, identity and a collective imaginary which bind people in complex ways. The media framed the 2013 horsemeat scandal by fusing discourses beyond the politics of food. Three recurrent media frames and dominant discourses converged with wider political debates and cultural stereotypes in circulation in the media around immigration and intertextual discourse on historical foo…
Constructing the Eastern European Other: The Horsemeat Scandal and the Migrant Other
The Horsemeat scandal in the UK in 2013 ignited a furore about consumer deception and the bodily transgression of consuming something so alien to the British psyche. The imagination of the horse as a noble and mythic figure in British history and sociological imagination was invoked to construct the consumption of horsemeat as a social taboo and an immoral proposition in the British media debates. This paper traces the horsemeat scandal and its m…
The weakest link in existing studies: Media–government risk interactions
This article argues that media-government interactions are critical to the trajectory of risk debates. These interactions are dynamic, entailing multi-faceted shifts in responses and counter-responses –positions, arguments/discourses/representations and actions – during the course of a scare. An exploration of such dynamics in the political-media complex is likely to tell us much about how their shifting relationship, roles and engagements influe…
Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization
J. S. Juris Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008, ISBN: 9780822342694, 378 pp. Academic and activist interest in movement
The weakest link in existing studies: Media–government risk interactions
This article argues that media-government interactions are critical to the trajectory of risk debates. These interactions are dynamic, entailing multi-faceted shifts in responses and counter-responses –positions, arguments/discourses/representations and actions – during the course of a scare. An exploration of such dynamics in the political-media complex is likely to tell us much about how their shifting relationship, roles and engagements influe…
Participatory Politics, Environmental Journalism and Newspaper Campaigns
This article explores the extent to which approaches to participatory politics might offer a more useful alternative to understanding the role of environmental journalism in a society where the old certainties have collapsed, only to be replaced by acute uncertainty. This uncertainty not only generates acute public anxiety about risks, it has also undermined confidence in the validity of long-standing premises about the ideal role of the media in…
A ‘superstorm’: When moral panic and new risk discourses converge in the media
There has been a proliferation of risk discourses in recent decades but studies of these have been polarised, drawing either on moral panic or new risk frameworks to analyse journalistic discourses. This article opens the theoretical possibility that the two may co-exist and converge in the same scare. I do this by bringing together more recent developments in moral panic thesis, with new risk theory and the concept of media logic. I then apply t…
Governing risks and benefits: Mobile communication technologies in British universities
Mobile communication technologies (MCTs) pose new opportunities and challenges to university governance. Not only are the devices widespread, they have particular capabilities and constantly changing uses which makes any governing of them difficult. Furthermore most devices are individually owned. Thus universities are unable to directly control how they are used but do have a duty of care towards those learning and teaching within their spaces. …
Constructing the Eastern European Other: The Horsemeat Scandal and the Migrant Other
The Horsemeat scandal in the UK in 2013 ignited a furore about consumer deception and the bodily transgression of consuming something so alien to the British psyche. The imagination of the horse as a noble and mythic figure in British history and sociological imagination was invoked to construct the consumption of horsemeat as a social taboo and an immoral proposition in the British media debates. This paper traces the horsemeat scandal and its m…
Communicating the ‘migrant’ other as risk: Space, EU and expanding borders
Forced migration and border spaces as fault lines posing risks to society through the notion of ‘Othering’, remain under-explored in risk literature. With Europe facing its biggest humanitarian crisis with forced migration and displacement due to conflict zones, the borders of the European Union have received renewed attention in media. Refugees and the displaced are often depicted as ‘migrants’ and are seen as transgressing borders as illegitima…
Contamination, deception and 'othering: The Media Framing of the Horsemeat Scandal
Food and consumption practices are cultural symbols of communities, nations, identity and a collective imaginary which bind people in complex ways. The media framed the 2013 horsemeat scandal by fusing discourses beyond the politics of food. Three recurrent media frames and dominant discourses converged with wider political debates and cultural stereotypes in circulation in the media around immigration and intertextual discourse on historical foo…
Calais and Its Border Politics
Hunger strike and the force-feeding chair: Guantanamo Bay and corporeal surrender
Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this paper examines the camp as a site of necropolitics where bodies inhabit the space of the Muselmann - a figure Agamben invokes in Auschwitz to capture the predicament of the living dead. Sites of incarceration produce an aesthetic of torture and the force-feeding chair embodies the disciplining of the body and the extraction of pain while imposing the bi…
A British national scandal: Hunger, foodbanks, and the deployment of a Dickensian trope
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Contemporary European Studies on 20 Oct 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2020.1839395
The Munchetty controversy: Empire, race, and the BBC
In September 2019, Naga Munchetty, a BBC presenter, was charged by the corporation as having breached its guidelines in sharing her personal experience of racism in reaction to Donald Trump's “Go Back” outburst at four female political opponents, an incident understood worldwide as a racist attack. The BBC, acting on complaints from some viewers, upheld that Munchetty had partially breached its journalistic guidelines in speaking about her experi…
Lecture Capture Policies: A Survey of British Universities
The integration of digital and convergent technologies into the classroom poses policy level challenges for universities, as these constitute a wider process of digitalization and marketization of the higher education institutions (HEIs) ranging from open access publishing to augmenting pedagogy through learning platforms. Digital technologies not only augment teaching and learning, they present HEIs with a multitude of challenges from copyright …
Space Construction in Media Reporting: A Study of the Migrant Space in the ‘Jungles’ of Calais
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