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Expelling the victim by demanding voice: the counterframing of transnational Romani activism / Plaut, Shayna

Plaut, Shayna	Journal Article
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2012.

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This article traces how Roma are crafting and changing their representation in the media and thus discursively moving from passive victims to active subjects by engaging in strategic framing and advocacy. I focus on public discussions of the French expulsion of Roma in the summer of 2010. The nature of the coverage and the engagement of Romani voices mark a shift away from the traditional trope of Roma as criminal, victim, or absent. This is part of a shifting process where Roma use media as a political tactic, even to mobilize transnationally as a subaltern counterpublic. This article demonstrates how the tactic of counterframing is employed within Romani and mainstream English-language media and how Roma engage in media activist strategies to shift the frame away from demands for Roma to prove their worth as humans to the need for members of the European Union to prove they are not engaged in systemic economic, political, and social human rights abuses.

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Media ; European Union ; Roma ; Counterpublic ; Counterframing

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Good dalits and bad Brahmins: melodramatic realism in dalit short stories / Brueck, Laura

Brueck, Laura	Journal Article
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2010.

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This article examines the literary strategies that shape contemporary Dalit fictional prose in Hindi. Based on the analysis of two short stories by the prolific Dalit writers Omprakash Valmiki and Jaiprakash Kardam, it is argued that the contributions of Dalit literature arise today not only in the context of a social movement, but are increasingly apparent through the development of a new, hybrid melodramatic-realist literary aesthetic. New critical scholarship of Dalit literature in India is therefore needed to appreciate the ongoing expansion of such forms of literature across linguistic and geographical regions in India as a postmodern sphere of subaltern social protest. Such fresh analytical attention to Dalit strategies of artistic expansion and literary growth will undoubtedly enliven the hitherto largely bland sociological conversations about Dalit literature.

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Realism ; Literature ; Dalits ; Narrative ; Ambedkar ; Counterpublic ;
Melodrama ; Short Stories ; Subalternity

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Power of European fatwas: the minority Fiqh project and the making of an Islamic counterpublic / Caeiro, Alexandre

Caeiro, Alexandre	Journal Article
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2010.

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Minority ; European Fatwas ; Fiqh Project ; Islamic Counter Public ; Counterpublic

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