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Coping with potentially incompatible identities: Accounts of religious, ethnic, and sexual identities from British Pakistani men who identify as Muslim and gay
(2010)
This study explores how a group of young British Muslim gay men (BMGM) of Pakistani background in non-gay affirmative religious contexts understood and defined their sexual, religious, and ethnic identities, focusing upon ...
Human Responses to Climate Change: Social Representation, Identity and Socio-Psychological Action.
(Environmental Communication, 2014)
Climate change is one of the most important global challenges in the twenty-first century, given that a changing climate is likely to have negative and potentially irreversible consequences for the environment and human ...
Social representations of the Holocaust and Jewish Israeli identity construction: insights from identity process theory.
(Taylor and Francis/ Routledge, 2011)
This study explores how a group of young Israeli Jews understood and defined their ethno-national identities, focusing upon the role of social representations of the Holocaust in the construction of Jewish Israeli identity. ...
Representing the "Zionist Regime": Mass Communication of Anti-Zionism in the English-language Iranian Press
(British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2014)
Anti-Zionism constitutes an important ideological building-block of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). This paper provides insight into the mass communication of anti-Zionism in the English-language Iranian Press in order ...
Images of Extreme Weather: Symbolising Human Responses to Climate Change
(2014)
Extreme weather events have been increasingly in the news, accompanied by images. At the end of 2011, when such reports were ever present, the International Panel on Climate Change published a draft report on extreme weather ...
Reconciling social psychology and socio-linguistics can have some benefits: language and identity among second generation British Asians
(British Psychological Society, 2009)
Given the pervasiveness of language in social life and the implications that language use can have for one’s individual and collective identities, attempts were made to explore the theoretical and empirical advantages in ...
Media representations of British Muslims and hybridised threats to identity.
(Springer, 2010)
Muslims have never before occupied such a central position in the British media, given their general absence from more ‘normalised’ representational positions such as in popular soaps, literature and reality television. ...
Delegitimizing Jews and Israel in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoon Contest.
(Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2013)
In 2006, the Iranian government-aligned newspaper Hamshahri sponsored The International Holocaust Cartoon Contest. The stated aim of the contest was to denounce “Western hypocrisy on freedom of speech,” and to challenge ...
Identity threat among British Muslim gay men.
(The British Psychological Society, 2010)
Being gay in a heteronormative world can be difficult and stressful, but for Muslims who identify as gay, life can be particularly problematic. This is due primarily to negative social representations of homosexuality ...
“I never faced up to being gay”: Sexual, religious and ethnic identities among British South Asian gay men
(Taylor and Francis/ Routledge, 2012)
This paper presents the findings from a comparative qualitative study of British Indian and British Pakistani gay men, all of whom self-identified as members of their religious communities. Data were analysed using thematic ...
