The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media by Christiana Spens

Author:Christiana Spens
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030048822
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

‘Seeing’ terrorists in the media provokes similar questions regarding what to do with them, usually with clear answers involving punishment and death, since they are not only made visible as objects of intrigue, but their visibility is also framed as a matter of national or international security. That these caricatures of evil and barbarism exist compels viewers to support action to control them and expel them. Their being made visible is the highlighting of a problem, or a taboo, using racial difference and visual motifs to communicate that these individuals are ‘other’ as well as evil . If they are ‘other’ and evil , then it is thought justified that they be punished and killed; they are taboo people who should be purged from society, according to the norms of Western culture. This attitude, since it is so based in visual racial difference, clearly implies further demonisation of those people who happen to share those visual attributes, too, risking racism and Islamophobia more generally.

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