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Migrants, Refugees and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies, 2018

Migrants, Refugees and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies, 2018

Deminoritization: Strategic Essentialism and the politics of Difference. Eds. Mounir Triki, Chokri Smaoui and Sami Nighaoui. Kairouan: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, 2017

My paper is focused on the way British newspapers covered Eastern European immigration into Brita... more My paper is focused on the way British newspapers covered Eastern European immigration into Britain from 2004 to 2007, a lapse of time involving the two waves of the fifth EU enlargement. This enlargement resulted in a large influx of Eastern Europeans, considered by John Salt, a geographer at University College London, and Ian Fitzgerald, from Northumbria University, as the biggest influx in British history which surprised everybody, contributing to the re-emergence of the immigration issue and its impact on British society. Articles covering the influx of Eastern Europeans and the related issues, published in three daily newspapers: the Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Mirror, are qualitatively analyzed, using framing, a recognized tool in media studies. The intention is to study the link between media frames and public opinion in relation to the influx and its impact on people’s attitudes about white European immigrants from Eastern Europe. This is carried out by comparing media representations to opinion polls dealing with the most important issues facing the country. I shall argue that daily newspapers’ representations affected Britons’ attitudes about the influx, thus creating a new ‘other’ in multicultural Britain.

Deviation(s) by Mounir Guirat and Mounir Triki, (eds). Sfax, Tunisia: Faculty of Letters and Humanities and Laboratory on Approaches to Discourse (LAD) Publications, 2014

This paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 1 manipulated Parliament during the Falklands ... more This paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 1 manipulated Parliament during the Falklands 2 crisis. Two of her speeches 3 are highlighted, given their significance in showing Thatcher's ability, through the verbal strategies she followed, to get the backing of Parliament and her own population to sending a large task force to retake the remote Islands, regardless of the views of her opponents. My research instrument is evasion, a recognised indirectness strategy in political discourse. I shall suggest that Thatcher was evasive during the Falklands crisis to defuse opposition and to ensure parliamentary support for the war and her handling of it.

Academic Research. Sfax: University of Sfax, Faculty of Letters and Humanities , 2014

My paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 2 reacted to the Argentine invasion during and a... more My paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 2 reacted to the Argentine invasion during and after the crisis. The invasion and Britain's repossession of the Falkland Islands 3 transformed both the British political landscape and Thatcher's own authority. Thatcher's winning the 1983 British elections, partly due to her handling of the Falklands crisis, allowed her to shape the British socio-political scene for quite a long time. I seek to show that Thatcher used two different lenses to look at the Falklands crisis: one during the conflict and another sometime later. Five speeches 4 delivered during the crisis are juxtaposed to later statements in her memoirs The Downing Street Years. I shall argue that Thatcher handled the Falklands crisis in the way she had intended, as a female Prime Minister in a parliament dominated by men. But with hindsight she looked at the crisis from another perspective as a writer of a significant episode in Britain's history, implying that the whole event should be reconsidered or rewritten.

Books by Fathi Bourmeche

Sadok Damak, and Fathi Bourmeche, eds. Sfax, Tunisia: CAEU Med Ali Editions. [ISBN: 978-9973-33-602-6], 2021

Shaping Public Opinion captures the essence of the debates that stemmed from the First Internatio... more Shaping Public Opinion captures the essence of the debates that stemmed from the First International Symposium on Media and Cultural Studies. The volume claims that the notion of public opinion is elusive and fuzzy, necessitating certain frames, ideological and political ones in particular, for a better grasp of its nature and scope. Besides, this notion has long constituted the concern of scholars from different horizons, probably starting with Plato, Aristotle, and later Hobbs and Jean Jacques Rousseau, who conceived of public opinion as people’s long-standing social practices and behavioral traditions. By modern standards, the notion has acquired new meanings all of which are as innovative and avant-garde as puzzling and baffling.

Migrants, Refugees and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies, 2018

Migrants, Refugees and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies, 2018

Deminoritization: Strategic Essentialism and the politics of Difference. Eds. Mounir Triki, Chokri Smaoui and Sami Nighaoui. Kairouan: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, 2017

My paper is focused on the way British newspapers covered Eastern European immigration into Brita... more My paper is focused on the way British newspapers covered Eastern European immigration into Britain from 2004 to 2007, a lapse of time involving the two waves of the fifth EU enlargement. This enlargement resulted in a large influx of Eastern Europeans, considered by John Salt, a geographer at University College London, and Ian Fitzgerald, from Northumbria University, as the biggest influx in British history which surprised everybody, contributing to the re-emergence of the immigration issue and its impact on British society. Articles covering the influx of Eastern Europeans and the related issues, published in three daily newspapers: the Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Mirror, are qualitatively analyzed, using framing, a recognized tool in media studies. The intention is to study the link between media frames and public opinion in relation to the influx and its impact on people’s attitudes about white European immigrants from Eastern Europe. This is carried out by comparing media representations to opinion polls dealing with the most important issues facing the country. I shall argue that daily newspapers’ representations affected Britons’ attitudes about the influx, thus creating a new ‘other’ in multicultural Britain.

Deviation(s) by Mounir Guirat and Mounir Triki, (eds). Sfax, Tunisia: Faculty of Letters and Humanities and Laboratory on Approaches to Discourse (LAD) Publications, 2014

This paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 1 manipulated Parliament during the Falklands ... more This paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 1 manipulated Parliament during the Falklands 2 crisis. Two of her speeches 3 are highlighted, given their significance in showing Thatcher's ability, through the verbal strategies she followed, to get the backing of Parliament and her own population to sending a large task force to retake the remote Islands, regardless of the views of her opponents. My research instrument is evasion, a recognised indirectness strategy in political discourse. I shall suggest that Thatcher was evasive during the Falklands crisis to defuse opposition and to ensure parliamentary support for the war and her handling of it.

Academic Research. Sfax: University of Sfax, Faculty of Letters and Humanities , 2014

My paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 2 reacted to the Argentine invasion during and a... more My paper is focused on the way Margaret Thatcher 2 reacted to the Argentine invasion during and after the crisis. The invasion and Britain's repossession of the Falkland Islands 3 transformed both the British political landscape and Thatcher's own authority. Thatcher's winning the 1983 British elections, partly due to her handling of the Falklands crisis, allowed her to shape the British socio-political scene for quite a long time. I seek to show that Thatcher used two different lenses to look at the Falklands crisis: one during the conflict and another sometime later. Five speeches 4 delivered during the crisis are juxtaposed to later statements in her memoirs The Downing Street Years. I shall argue that Thatcher handled the Falklands crisis in the way she had intended, as a female Prime Minister in a parliament dominated by men. But with hindsight she looked at the crisis from another perspective as a writer of a significant episode in Britain's history, implying that the whole event should be reconsidered or rewritten.

Sadok Damak, and Fathi Bourmeche, eds. Sfax, Tunisia: CAEU Med Ali Editions. [ISBN: 978-9973-33-602-6], 2021

Shaping Public Opinion captures the essence of the debates that stemmed from the First Internatio... more Shaping Public Opinion captures the essence of the debates that stemmed from the First International Symposium on Media and Cultural Studies. The volume claims that the notion of public opinion is elusive and fuzzy, necessitating certain frames, ideological and political ones in particular, for a better grasp of its nature and scope. Besides, this notion has long constituted the concern of scholars from different horizons, probably starting with Plato, Aristotle, and later Hobbs and Jean Jacques Rousseau, who conceived of public opinion as people’s long-standing social practices and behavioral traditions. By modern standards, the notion has acquired new meanings all of which are as innovative and avant-garde as puzzling and baffling.