Riotous or Righteous Behaviour? Representations of Subaltern Resistance in the Australian Mainstream Media

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ID15310066
AuthorsAmanda Porter (0000-0001-5898-7125, Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, PO Box 123, Ultimo NSW 2007 Australia.. This article was inspired by articles by Larissa Behrendt and Amy McQuire. The author would like to thank Reece George, Amy McQuire, Raygine Diaquoi, Chris Cunneen and the two anonymous reviewers for their feedback on earlier iterations of this article., corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume26
Issue3
Pages289-304
Publication date2015-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Issues in Criminal Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1034-5329 • E-ISSN: 2206-9542
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10345329.2015.12036022
OpenAlexW2293500500
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

This article examines Australian domestic and international mainstream media coverage of subaltern resistance to police brutality. In particular, it analyses representations of subaltern resistance in Australian mainstream media with reference to riots in Palm Island, Queensland, Australia (November 2004) and in Ferguson, Missouri, United States (November 2014) and tests the appositeness of the theoretical concept of ‘moral panic’ to Australian media coverage of these respective events. In so doing, it exposes contradictions and anomalies in the Australian media's coverage of Indigenous resistance and offers some hypotheses for any apparent discrepancies

Criminology · Indigenous · Mainstream · Media studies · Moral panic · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Publishing · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Subaltern · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law

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