Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation

Celine-Marie Pascale is a professor of Sociology and an affiliate professor of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. Her research concerns language, inequality, and epistemology. She is the author of two award-winning books, Making Sense of Race, Class and Gender (Routledge, 2007) and Cartographies of Knowledge (Sage, 2011). In addition, she edited a field-defining international collection of original scholarship, Social Inequality & the Politics of Representation (Sage, 2013). She is the author of more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Introduction - Celine-Marie Pascale SECTION ONE: CLASS 1. Class Invisibility and Stigmatization: Irish Media Coverage of a Public Housing Project in Limerick - Martin Power, Amanda Haynes and Eoin Devereaux 2. Inequality and Representation: Critical Discourse Analysis of News Coverage about Homelessness - Viviane de Melo Resende and Viviane Tamalho 3. Poverty and the Survival of Discourses of Discrimination: Otomi Speakers in Mexico - Roland Terborg and Laura Garcia Landa 4. Race-Class Intersections as Interactional Resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Kevin Whitehead SECTION TWO: RACE 5. The Representation of Ehtnic-cultural Otherness: The Roma Minority in Serbian Press - Natasa Simeunovic Bajic 6. You Are Trying to Make Race an Issue! Race-baiting and Social Categorizatino in US Immigrant Debates - Shiao-yun Chiang 7. Global Media and Cultural Identities: The Case of Indians in Post-Amin Uganda - Hemant Shah 8. Representing and Reconstructing Chinatown: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Place Names in Urban Planning Policies of Washington, DC - Jackie Jia Lou SECTION THREE: SEXUALITY 9. Sexual Citizenship and Suffering Subjects: Media Discourse about Teenage Homosexuality in South Korea - Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree 10. Hidden Sex: Behind the Veil and in the Forest - Sanya Osha 11. The Bad and the Good (Queer) Immigrant in Italian Mass Media - Valentina Pagliai 12. The Surplus of Paradoxes: Queering/Images of Sexuality and Economy - Antke Engel SECTION FOUR: GENDER 13. Positioning the Veiled Woman: An Analysis of Austrian Press Photographs in the Context of the European Headscarf Debates - Ricarda Drueeke, Susanne Kirchhoff and Elisabeth Klaus 14. Constructing the Other: Young Men's Talk on Ethnic and Racist Violence - Kjerstin Andersson 15. Language as a Means of 'Civilizing' Kurdish Women in Turkey - Ebru Sungun 16. Contested Identity: Transgendered People in Malaysia - Caesar DeAlvais, Maya Khemlani David and Francisco Perlas Dumanig SECTION FIVE: NATION 17. Language and Identity: Minority Language Policy, Turkish Soap Operas and Language in the Bulgarian Mediascape - Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova 18. Tiny Neitzen Mocking Great Firewall: Research on the Discourse of Power and Politics of Representation in China, 2005-2010 - Weizhun Mao 19. Framing Extreme Violence: Collective Memory-Making in Argentina - Roberta Villalon 20. The Changing Dynamics of Political Discourse About Orphans in Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods - Margarita Astoyants

"If anyone ever doubted the power of language to make the most egregious inequalities acceptable, natural, and even ordinary, then they should read Pascale's magisterial book, whose fascinating case studies cover the globe. She projects the politics of representation as a critical field that cuts across disciplines and defines new, exciting directions for Sociology." -- Michael Burawoy "This splendid collection will give English-language readers vivid pictures of the way inequalities work across different continents, cultures, and situations. This is the kind of scholarship we urgently need to transform our knowledge, and help transform our world." -- Raewyn Connell "Bringing together critical analysis of representations of inequality by scholars in twenty countries on five continents, this book makes an important contribution to international comparison of production and treatment of inequalities, as well as to placing scholarship from different parts of the world on a more equal footing than we are accustomed to." -- Norman Fairclough "This unique collections presents wide-ranging forms of textual analysis on the articulations of social inequality in a global perspective. It not only addresses in novel ways different forms and locations of inequalities, ranging from class to nation and from China to Mexico, but also provides deep insights on the relationship between language and the social and between representation and the production of truth. The book makes substantial contributions to the fields of Sociology and Cultural Studies and broadly in the domain of theoretically informed empirical research." -- Anriban Das One of the most impressive aspects of this collection is its scope and range. It covers inequalities in twenty countries across five continents, and so effectively displaces the usual sociological focus on Europe or North America while also avoiding a centre/periphery approach. [...] The book occupies a fertile place midway between sociology and cultural studies, and places scholarship from around the world on an equal footing. It is in the end this round-the-world scope of the book that remains its most appealing feature, and turns its abundance of topic and treatment into a worthwhile sociological project. -- Michael Pickering