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Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis (2019)
Journal Article
Holohan. (2019). Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.423

Taking as its starting point Hannah Arendt’s (1994/1943) observations on the public response to the mass exile of Jews during World War Two, I argue that the UK’s mediatized reaction to those escaping conflict during the Mediterranean refugee crisis... Read More about Some Human's Rights: Neo-liberal discourses of otherness in the Mediterranean refugee crisis.

What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration (2014)
Journal Article
Holohan, S. (2014). What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 27 - 45. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00701009

The perceived failure of minority communities to integrate into mainstream culture and society has been of such concern in recent years that there have been a series of political endeavors to shore up notions of citizenship, inclusion, and (national)... Read More about What is a Cohesive Community Anyway? The Role of Mainstream Media in Narratives of (Dis)Integration.

'"We're a Very Normal Family": Representing the Mundane in Channel 4's The Family' (2012)
Journal Article
Holohan. (2012). '"We're a Very Normal Family": Representing the Mundane in Channel 4's The Family'. Media, Culture and Society, 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443711427197

In 1974 Paul Watson’s The Family pioneered the ‘fly-on-the-wall’ technique to build a picture of family life that also exposed inequalities contained in British society. Today, film-maker Jonathan Smith, has updated this format using technologies usu... Read More about '"We're a Very Normal Family": Representing the Mundane in Channel 4's The Family'.

Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7 (2010)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M., Poole, E., & Holohan, S. (2010). Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6(2), 169-186. https://doi.org/10.1386/mcp.6.2.169_1

It is widely agreed that the events which took place on 11 September 2001 have played a large part in reshaping global imaginings about contemporary acts of terrorism and their Islamic perpetrators. Given this transformation in the understanding of t... Read More about Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7.