Media and the Politics of Offence

Name: Media and the Politics of Offence
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
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Anne Graefer(Editor)

Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)

Published on 15. July 2019

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XI, 258 pages

978-3-030-17573-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called 'right to offend' is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a 'political correctness gone mad' that stifles 'free speech'. Against the backdrop of these current developments, this book aims to generate a productive dialogue among scholars working in a variety of intellectual disciplines, geographical locations and methodological traditions. The contributors share a concern about the complex and ambiguous nature of offence as well as about the different ways in which this so-called 'negative affect' comes to matter in our everyday and socio-political lives. Through a series of instructive case studies of recent media provocations, the authors illustrate how being offended is more than an individual feeling and is, instead, closely tied to political structures and power relations.

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"This valuable collection of essays helps to foster a more sophisticated approach to important questions of offensiveness in public discourse. Situating offence in relation to structures of power, the book is diverse in its empirical cases and analytical approaches; takes us beyond westernised contexts as well as including them; and deals with a range of different forms of expression, representation and practice." (Michael Pickering, Loughborough University, UK)

"This collection is both timely and extremely welcome in a climate where issues of offence have become of central political importance. Wide-ranging in its scope, the book provides an accessible introduction to the contemporary entanglements ofmedia, offence, controversy, civility and affect." (Feona Attwood, Professor of Cultural Studies, Communication and Media, Middlesex University, UK)

"This is a significant and timely collection exploring the knotty business of mediated offence in contemporary political landscapes.. A must-read for scholars and students in media and communications, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and political science." (Sharon Lockyer, Brunel University London, UK)

"This multi-disciplinary volume highlights the increasingly central use of offence as a communicative resource for taking a stance, staging protests, silencing others and gaining a voice, combining classic thinkers such as Goffman with up-to-the-minute case studies. A must-read for divisive times." (Caroline Tagg, Open University, UK)

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