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Blocking the solution: S ocial representations of threats and (non)dialogue with alternative representations in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers during peace negotiations
- Source :
- Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, J Theory Soc Behav
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper first identifies representations of threats in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers related to the negotiations for a Cyprus settlement. Then, it identifies how alternative representations to these core representations of threats are managed through the use of a number of semantic barriers. Therefore, it problematizes the role (function) that such representations of threats play in undermining the potential for transformative dialogue in a post‐conflict and divided country in need of conflict transformation. Focus is on the editorials of two newspapers during a four‐month period before the collapse of the July 2017 Cyprus peace talks. Both were suspicious and polemic vis‐à‐vis the said negotiations but used different strategies to oppose them. Simerini convened recurrently threats such as Turkification, state dissolution and threats against Hellenism. Phileleftheros focused on the issue of security drawing red lines on various dossiers under discussion in the negotiations. The paper contributes to the theoretical debate of the relationship between social representations and identities and the role of threats and historical narratives in undermining transformative dialogue through the use of semantic barriers. 49 4 460 479
- Subjects :
- Conflict
Social Psychology
Blocking (radio)
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Media studies
Social Sciences
Semantic barriers
Media and Communications
Social representations
Newspaper
Philosophy
Negotiation
Greek cypriots
Cyprus
Realistic threats
Propaganda
Symbolic threats
Sociology
Media analysis
General Psychology
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14685914 and 00218308
- Volume :
- 49
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5d1d6e5ef810fe467134721afc42691f