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Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe

Palgrave Macmillan

Editors:

  1. Irena Reifová

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Media Studies, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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  2. Martin Hájek

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Sociology, Institute of Sociological Studies Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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  • Counters the dominant emphasis on the West in media studies by looking at cultural negotiations of class and poverty in different regions of Europe

  • Extends the variety of genres and types of media whose shaming practices are analyzed, by focusing on realms other than reality television – without omitting its substantial role in stigmatization of poverty

  • Contributes to the regeneration of the study of class in media and cultural studies

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  9. Disparaging ‘the Assisted’: Shaming and Blaming Social Welfare Recipients in Romania and Hungary

    • Hanna Orsolya Vincze, Andreea Alina Mogoș, Radu Mihai Meza
    Pages 143-162

  10. Othering Without Blaming: Representing Poverty in Flemish Factual Entertainment

    • Alexander Dhoest, Marleen te Walvaart, Koen Panis
    Pages 163-182

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 243-254
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About this book

The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. Class and poverty are not understood as certain things and actions, or concepts and numbers; both class and poverty are assumed to be, above all, particular social relationships or a set of relations between people, things and symbols. 

Without denying that contempt for the destitute Other is an affect found throughout history and in various socioeconomic contexts, the chapters in this book – through their concern with the mediated gaze on class – narrate predominantly the challenges brought about by the media’s spectacular take on poverty and low status as they (at least) coincide with the neoliberal era. 

This volume will be essential reading for the scholars specialising in the study of media and social inequalities form the vantage points of Media Studies, Sociology, Anthropology or European Studies. 

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Keywords

  • Media shaming
  • Poverty in Europe
  • Representations of poverty
  • Reality television
  • Negotiations of class
  • Class in media
  • Poverty in media
  • Poverty porn programming
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Media Studies, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Irena Reifová

  • Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Sociology, Institute of Sociological Studies Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Martin Hájek

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About the editors

Irena Reifová is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. She is focusing on cultural studies, theory of popular culture, television studies and post-socialist mediated memory. Since 2016 she has been working as ECREA General Secretary. 

Martin Hájek is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. His research interests are normative orders of society, symbolic interactionism, discourse and narrative analysis. He is the author of a monograph on various types of textual analysis and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. 
 
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe

  • Editors: Irena Reifová, Martin Hájek

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73543-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73542-5Published: 06 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73545-6Published: 06 July 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73543-2Published: 05 July 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 254

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: European Culture, European Film and TV, Social Structure

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