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Why the Proportional Representation System Fails to Promote Minority Interests?
PCD Online Journal, 2017 Proportional representation (PR) is favoured as the most suitable form of electoral system for multi-ethnic societes because it allows every vote to be counted. It, therefore, provides a strong incentive for minority parties and other political groups to
Minna Thaheer
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Representation of Muslims in French Media and its Impact on Public Perception and Self-Identity [PDF]
Social Science ChronicleThis study examines the representation of Muslims in French media and its effects on public perception and self-identity within Muslim communities, with a specific focus on Muslim girls.
Laurent Dupont
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Multi-faceted representation of Muslims in “Ramy”
, 2022 Research on the representation of Muslims in the media has predominantly focused on stereotypes that misrepresent Muslims. Sutkutė’s (2020) analysis on “The Kite Runner,” and Morey and Yaqin’s (2011) analysis on “Yasmin” both conclude that these narratives affirm the dominant discourse that represents Muslims as primarily violent and oppressive.
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Transnational Feminism, Islam, and the Other Woman: How to Teach
Radical Teacher, 2019 The author argues that “the progressive scholar engaging women’s issues in the Muslim world must strive to do three things: historicize feminism, historicize Islam, and highlight the complexities of representation” – and she explains how.
Perin Gurel
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Majority Members’ Feelings About Political Representation of Muslim Immigrants
Social Psychology, 2016 Abstract. In three survey experimental studies among national samples of the native Dutch, we examined feelings towards Muslim immigrants’ political party representation. The strategy of disengagement (reject political representation) was evaluated most positively, followed by the descriptive representation strategy (participate as Muslims in existing ...
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018 Sophia Rose Arjana’s book Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture raises a timely and critical discussion. The interdisciplinary nature of the book provides insight into various subjects, including women’s studies, theology, and popular ...
Sarah Shapley
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The Muslim-American neighbour as terrorist: The representation of a Muslim family in 24 [PDF]
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2012 Academic literature on movies and TV serials produced in Hollywood documents that Muslim and Arab characters are often represented in a stereotypical and negative manner. The TV serial 24 doesn’t seem to be an exception. 24 has been accused by Muslim interest groups in the United States and by prominent people with Muslim background for stereotyping ...
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Media sebagai Aparatus Ideologis
Jurnal KeislamanThis study examines how mass media function as an ideological apparatus in representing Muslims and producing citizenship identity in Indonesia. Employing a qualitative approach within a critical paradigm and Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis ...
Fresyam Antika Ajeng
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The parliamentary representation of British Muslims [PDF]
, 2010 Parliamentary parties in the British House of Commons tend to experience high levels of voting unity with individual MPs only occasionally dissenting from party policy. Although constituency influence has been used extensively to predict legislative behaviour in candidate-centred electoral environments, it is argued here that constituency preferences ...
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Challenging Media Representations of the Veil
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2000 The image of the Muslim woman’s veil in the popular western media is that it is a symbol of oppression and violence in Islam. The forced covering of women in postrevolutionary Iran, or lately, under the Taliban in Afghanistan seems to confirm this image ...
Katherine Bullock
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