Cyprus and its Conflicts

Vaia Doudaki is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University. Her research focuses on representations, identities, and discourse in media. Her most recent work on the current economic crisis has been published in journals such as Journalism, European Journal of Communication and Javnost – The Public.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: A Multidisciplinary and Multiperspectival Approach to ConflictVaia Doudaki and Nico CarpentierPART I: THE MATERIALITY OF CONFLICT IN CYPRUSChapter 1. Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus: The Problematic Rethinking of a Conflicted PastNico CarpentierChapter 2. Soundmarks of Conflict in the City Centre of Divided NicosiaYiannis Christidis and Angeliki GaziChapter 3.Bridge Over Troubled…Susan J. Drucker and Gary GumpertChapter 4. Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus: Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and CritiquesLia-Paschalia Spyridou and Dimitra L. MilioniPART II: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM WITHIN (NORTH AND SOUTH)Chapter 5. The ‘Others’ in Peace Talks: Representation of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot PressChristophoros Christophorou and Sanem ŞahinChapter 6. Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Cypriot BailoutVaia DoudakiChapter 7. Challenging the Sacredness of ‘the Mediated Centre’: The Shift in Media Discourses on Bicommunal Relations in Cyprus after the Crossing Points Opening in 2003Christiana KarayianniChapter 8. The Cypriot ‘Occupy the Buffer Zone’ Movement: Online Discursive Frames and Civic EngagementVenetia Papa and Peter DahlgrenPART III: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM THE OUTSIDEChapter 9. Whose Flags are These? Apollon Limassol v. Trabzonspor Football Matches in Turkish Online News and User Comments as a Case of ‘Banal Nationalism’D. Beybin Kejanlioglu and Serhat GüneyChapter 10. A Treasure in Varosha: The Role of a Cypriot Myth in the Construction of Turkish Nationalist IdentityAysu ArsoyChapter 11. Pax Troikana: The U.K. Media and the Symbolic Conflicts on the Cypriot ‘Rescue’ ProgrammeGiulia Airaghi and Maria AvraamidouChapter 12. Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses of the Cypriot Economic Crisis by Greek MediaYiannis MylonasConclusion: Studying Conflicts in Cyprus: Lessons Learned for Conflict StudiesNico CarpentierIndex

“Doudaki and Carpentier’s book brings together essays from disparate disciplines to provide readers with a new and refreshing way of looking at this ongoing conflict…[It] makes a significant contribution to the literature, offering a creative, fresh perspective on Cyprus, focusing on the split between the symbolic and the material and how these contrast when trying to make sense of conflict dynamics. The wide variety of voices, which are all brought under a strong theme of symbols, conflict, and identity, offer the reader, especially social psychologists, an important case study.” • Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology“While the empirical focus of this book is on the specific context of a divided Cyprus, the authors address a set of issues that extend much further. At the heart of this edited collection is a sophisticated engagement with one of the core dichotomies in social theory, namely that between the symbolic and the material. The contributions address various articulations of this tension in the context of a long-term conflict and show how an analysis of media, broadly defined, helps us to understand the intricate relationship between the two.” • Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics“This essay collection is a valuable contribution not only to Cyprus specifically, but to conflict studies more broadly. It innovatively combines discursive and material analyses of the Cyprus conflict, providing a forum for distinctive authorial voices while maintaining a coherent, complex, and dynamic theoretical framework.” • Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University