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dc.contributor.authorBliuc, Ana-Maria
dc.contributor.authorMcGarty, Craig
dc.contributor.authorHartley, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorMuntele Hendres, Daniela
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:10:57Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:10:57Z
dc.date.created2013-03-04T20:00:51Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationBliuc, Ana-Maria and McGarty, Craig and Hartley, Lisa and Muntele Hendres, Daniela. 2012. Manipulating national identity: the strategic use of rhetoric by supporters and opponents of the 'Cronulla riots' in Australia. Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 (12): pp. 2174-2194.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43929
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01419870.2011.600768
dc.description.abstract

This research explores the role of opinion-based groups in understanding responses to racist violence such as the 2005 Cronulla riots in Australia. Traditionally, explanations of collective action in social psychology and sociology focus on conflict between broad social categories. We propose that the responses to the riots can be understood not only as inter-group conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims, or an in-group argument amongst non-Muslims, but as a bona fide inter-group conflict between supporters and opponents of the riots. We argue that these groups use rhetoric in attempts to claim dominant status within society by aligning their identities with positively valued social categories such as ethnicities and national identities. The analysis of rhetoric from the groups supporting and opposing the riots demonstrates consistent, albeit contested, attempts to align support for the riot with the Australian national category in conflict with countervailing attempts to align opposition to the riot with the same national category.

dc.publisherRoutledge: Taylor & Francis Group
dc.titleManipulating national identity: the strategic use of rhetoric by supporters and opponents of the 'Cronulla riots' in Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume35
dcterms.source.number12
dcterms.source.startPage2174
dcterms.source.endPage2194
dcterms.source.issn0141-9870
dcterms.source.titleEthnic and Racial Studies
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