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creators_name: Poortinga, G. M.
title: Representing 'Middle Eastern' conflicts in the National Geographic Magazine
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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.
date: 2014
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: CG
tutors_name: Buda, D. M.
keywords_local: National Geographic Magazine
keywords_local: Palestine
keywords_local: Israel
keywords_local: Middle East
keywords_local: Critical Discourse Analysis
keywords_local: Conflicts
language_iso: en
titleorder: Representing 'Middle Eastern' conflicts in the National Geographic Magazine
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date_issued: 2014-01-01
description_company: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
citation:   Poortinga, G. M.  (2014) Representing 'Middle Eastern' conflicts in the National Geographic Magazine.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1462/1/S2394162_Gepke_Poortinga_Maste_1.pdf