对黑人的命也重要的反应:英国报纸中种族主义的话语建构

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Politics Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI:10.1177/02633957221083974

Flo Bremner

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摘要

2020年5月25日，警察在明尼阿波利斯杀害了乔治·弗洛伊德，随后发生了国际起义，种族主义成为公众讨论的焦点。然而，种族主义没有固定的解释，是不同个人和组织出于各种功能和意识形态目的使用的一个术语。本研究采用混合方法框架，结合批判性种族理论、语料库语言学和话语历史方法，分析了四家英国报纸对种族主义的讨论方式。有人认为，随着抗议活动的进行，系统性种族主义开始在报纸话语中被强调为个人形式的种族主义。然而，记者们继续使用积极的自我展示策略，将种族主义置于自己之外，置于种族主义的“他人”之内，导致他们抽象地反对种族主义，同时可能减少结构变革的可能性。

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Reacting to Black Lives Matter: The discursive construction of racism in UK newspapers

In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020, and the international uprisings which followed, racism moved to the forefront of public discourse. Yet, racism has no fixed interpretation and is a term used by different individuals and organisations for various functional and ideological purposes. This study provides an analysis of the ways that racism is discussed in four UK newspapers using a mixed-methods framework incorporating critical race theory, corpus linguistics, and the discourse-historical approach. It is argued that, as the protests were taking place, systemic racism began to be foregrounded over individualised forms of racism in newspaper discourse. However, journalists continued to use strategies of positive self-presentation to place racism outside of themselves and within racist ‘others’, leading them to stand against racism in the abstract, while potentially diminishing possibilities for structural change.

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