Seeing (With, Through, and As) Monsters—An Introduction to the Special Issue
We believe that the representation, construction, manufacture, and exclusion of monsters across genres and media is an increasingly pressing issue for individuals and civil societies on a global scale. The widespread use of exaggerated frames presenting a variety of others as mere threats has deadly...
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| author | Christian Beyer Juliane C. Bockwoldt Emil Lundedal Hammar Holger Pötzsch |
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| description | We believe that the representation, construction, manufacture, and exclusion of monsters across genres and media is an increasingly pressing issue for individuals and civil societies on a global scale. The widespread use of exaggerated frames presenting a variety of others as mere threats has deadly consequences for many people—worldwide. And, ‘Western’ liberal democratic elites urgently need to acknowledge their own role in such processes as the current construction of ‘Monster Assad’ as a Hitler-esque tyrant intending to ‘gas his own people’ or the continuing framing of Iran as ‘a nuclear threat to world peace’ lead by ‘nuke-building, apocalyptic mullahs’ are equally irresponsible and dangerous acts as the presentation of ‘non-normative’ persons as a menace to cultural and societal stability or the assumption that certain people are simply born as terrorists. We believe that as researchers, students, employees, workers, pupils, retirees, and others—in sum: as citizens—, we must be aware of such discursive moves of othering and exclusion and learn to identify these, connect them to underlying interests, and then resist and subvert them to avoid more killings in our or others’ names. This is our responsibility especially as contemporary global crises intensify bringing with them the need for ever new scapegoats to explain away the real contradictions underlying these relentless challenges. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1037103a2a09445190e24dfe1e0227a42024-02-02T14:37:50ZengSeptentrio Academic PublishingNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur0809-16681503-20862019-11-014210.7557/13.5001Seeing (With, Through, and As) Monsters—An Introduction to the Special IssueChristian Beyer0Juliane C. Bockwoldt1Emil Lundedal Hammar2Holger Pötzsch3Torghatten Buss and UiT The Arctic University of NorwayUiT The Arctic University of NorwayUiT The Arctic University of NorwayUiT The Arctic University of NorwayWe believe that the representation, construction, manufacture, and exclusion of monsters across genres and media is an increasingly pressing issue for individuals and civil societies on a global scale. The widespread use of exaggerated frames presenting a variety of others as mere threats has deadly consequences for many people—worldwide. And, ‘Western’ liberal democratic elites urgently need to acknowledge their own role in such processes as the current construction of ‘Monster Assad’ as a Hitler-esque tyrant intending to ‘gas his own people’ or the continuing framing of Iran as ‘a nuclear threat to world peace’ lead by ‘nuke-building, apocalyptic mullahs’ are equally irresponsible and dangerous acts as the presentation of ‘non-normative’ persons as a menace to cultural and societal stability or the assumption that certain people are simply born as terrorists. We believe that as researchers, students, employees, workers, pupils, retirees, and others—in sum: as citizens—, we must be aware of such discursive moves of othering and exclusion and learn to identify these, connect them to underlying interests, and then resist and subvert them to avoid more killings in our or others’ names. This is our responsibility especially as contemporary global crises intensify bringing with them the need for ever new scapegoats to explain away the real contradictions underlying these relentless challenges.https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5001Manufacturing Monsters |
| spellingShingle | Christian Beyer Juliane C. Bockwoldt Emil Lundedal Hammar Holger Pötzsch Seeing (With, Through, and As) Monsters—An Introduction to the Special Issue Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur Manufacturing Monsters |
| title | Seeing (With, Through, and As) Monsters—An Introduction to the Special Issue |
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| title_short | Seeing (With, Through, and As) Monsters—An Introduction to the Special Issue |
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