Poortinga, G. M. (2014) Representing 'Middle Eastern' conflicts in the National Geographic Magazine. Master thesis.
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Abstract
This study examines how and in what ways the Arab-Israeli conflicts are verbally and visually re/presented in the pages of the National Geographic Magazine. The magazine claims to be one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world reaching millions of people. Due to the scale of the phenomenon it is crucial to investigate how National Geographic re/presents people and places from particular cultures or regions in the world, in this case the Arab and Muslim worlds. This study, therefore, embodies the textual and visual re/presentation of the ‘Other’. Starting with the issue of January 1948 up to December 2008, a number of 14 articles/photo stories connected to the Arab-Israeli conflicts depicted in National Geographic Magazine are investigated. To scrutinise visual and verbal representations of the Arab-Israeli conflicts, Said’s theories on ‘Orientalism’ and Barthes’ semiological approach of the study of signs and symbols are employed.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Cultural Geography |
| Supervisor: | Buda, D. M. |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2020 05:28 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2020 05:28 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1462 |
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