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.; Nico Carpentier is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University, Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Docent at Charles University in Prague. His latest book is The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation.

• List of Illustrations;Acknowledgements;Introduction: A Multidisciplinary and Multiperspectival Approach to Conflict;Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier;PART I: THE MATERIALITY OF CONFLICY IN CYPRUS;Chapter 1. Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus: The Problematic Rethinking of a Conflicted Past;Nico Carpentier;Chapter 2. Soundmarks of Conflict in the City Centre of Divided Nicosia;Yiannis Christidis and Angeliki Gazi;Chapter 3.;Bridge Over Troubled...;Susan J Drucker and Gary Gumpert;Chapter 4. Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus: Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and Critiques;Lia-Paschalia Spyridou and Dimitra L. Milioni;PART 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 Press;Christophoros Christophorou and Sanem Sahin;Chapter 6. Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Cypriot Bailout;Vaia Doudaki;Chapter 7. Challenging the Sacredness of 'the Mediated Centre': The Shift of the Media Discourses on Bicommunal Relations in Cyprus after the Crossing Points Opening in 2003;Christiana Karayianni;Chapter 8. The Cypriot 'Occupy the Buffer Zone' Movement: Online Discursive Frames and Civic Engagement;Venetia Papa and Peter Dahlgren;PART III: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM THE OUTSIDE;Chapter 9. Whose Flags are These? Apollon Limassol v. Trabzonspor Football Matches in Turkish Online News and User Comments as a Case of 'Banal Nationalism';Beybin Kejanlioglu and Serhat Guney;Chapter 10. A Treasure in Varosha: The Role of a Cypriot Myth in the Construction of Turkish Nationalist Identity;Aysu Arsoy;Chapter 11. PAX TROIKANA: The U.K. Media and the Symbolic Conflicts on the Cypriot 'Rescue' Programme;Giulia Airaghi and Maria Avraamidou;Chapter 12. Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses of the Cypriot Economic Crisis by Greek Media;Yiannis Mylonas;ALPHAfterword: Studying Conflicts in Cyprus: Lessons Learned for Conflict Studies;Nico Carpentier;Bibliography;Index

"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