This thesis explores the cyclical construction and reproduction of neo-orientalist discourse in the post-9/11 world order, through a qualitative case study comparing and contrasting selected...Show moreThis thesis explores the cyclical construction and reproduction of neo-orientalist discourse in the post-9/11 world order, through a qualitative case study comparing and contrasting selected content from the British tabloid-style newspaper Mail Online, and the militant organization Daesh’s propaganda magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah. Analysis concerns a sample of articles highlighting dichotomies between the conceptual blocs of “Western Civilization” and “Islamic Civilization”; specifically the representation of Daesh on both sides of the discursive equation as a neo-orientalized entity, thereby arguably re-enforcing conceptions of Islam as an inherently barbaric, medieval, and threatening culture and religion. Based on the samples analyzed, this thesis uncovers a self-perpetuating cycle of neo-orientalist representation of Daesh, identifiable on a micro scale in its own publications as well as the British news publication. Similarities concerning the representation of Daesh in the scrutinized samples are identified and deemed problematic, opening discussion into the realm of the ethics and responsibility of contemporary journalism.Show less
The legal forms of migrant education (OETC and OALT) existed in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2004. Both its start and its ending have been linked to changing national models of integration. Five...Show moreThe legal forms of migrant education (OETC and OALT) existed in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2004. Both its start and its ending have been linked to changing national models of integration. Five models by Scholten are compared for the political discourse and the news discourse. These are: assimilationism, multiculturalism, differentialism, transnationalism/post-universalism and universalism. The shifts in the political discourse (differentialism-multiculturalism-universalism-assimilationism) were only to a certain extent comparable to the news discourse. Newspapers as Trouw, De Waarheid, Nederlands Dagblad, Algemeen Dagblad and De Volkskrant showed that the multicultural model of which OETC and OALT were an outcome, should have been put to doubt – and was merely symbolic. Migrant education did not lead to integration from either minorities or the majority. It still accommodated differences between groups. And although a multicultural model has a minimum amount of government interference, the government did play a central role here. Especially De Volkskrant and Trouw have seemed to be on the right end by labeling migrant education in the Netherlands as a legacy of the nation’s past of differentialist pillarization: OETC and OALT as ‘well-meant apartheid’. Notably De Waarheid influenced the political discourse by acting as a claim maker pro-migrant education.Show less
