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Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians

Matar, Dina

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This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped define, articulate, imagine and intervene implicitly and explicitly in the war, its securitisation, visualisation, mediation, narration, and representation. Together, it suggests, these practices serve to normalise Israel’s epistemic violence against the Palestinians while also depriving them of agency as knowable subjects/agents. It suggests the practice of devoicing the colonised through epistemic violence aims at sowing a narrative that sustains the asymmetry of power in global affairs and attributes a higher moral authority in the ‘Global North’ while widening the gap between the West and the Rest.

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Matar, D. (online). Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462787

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 30, 2025
Online Publication Date Feb 22, 2025
Deposit Date Feb 26, 2025
Publicly Available Date Feb 26, 2025
Journal Third World Quarterly
Print ISSN 0143-6597
Electronic ISSN 1360-2241
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462787
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462787

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