It's a Problem of Culture (for Them)

Orientalist Framing in News on Violence Against Women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2415486
AutoresNapoleon Chagnon (0000-0002-4105-5521)
Ano2020
Volume10
Fascículo4
Páginas480-500
Data de publicação2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRace and Justice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2153-3687 • E-ISSN: 2153-3687
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2153368718768374
OpenAlexW2801779404
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas32

This research examines chronological patterns in the social construction of violence against women in the United States and abroad as represented by coverage in the New York Times. It is found that while criminal justice-oriented discourse dominates coverage, the news is less often applying a social problem frame to violence against women occurring in the United States and increasingly linking such violence to culture when it happens in Islamic societies. Thus, coverage contributes to cultural acceptance of an Orientalist binary that juxtaposes "progressive" Western nations with "backward" Eastern ones. Such a finding is consistent with feminist scholarship on Orientalism and discourse surrounding violence against women. This article concludes by considering how such Orientalism serves contemporary neoliberal governmentality

Criminal justice · Criminology · Framing (construction · Governmentality · Islam · Islamophobia · Media studies · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Sex work and related issues · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence