This Image represents youth in the 1960s. The image shows people riding scooters, alongside two men on a motorbike, which represents the mods and rockers subcultures that many young people joined into during the time period.
In regards to the 2011 London riots, the right wing media has presented youth as out of control. They have been represented as starting riots, vandalising things and looting.
Why is mediation important with regards to representation?
In what way does hegemony influence mediation?
- Edward Said explained that at the start of European colonization the Europeans came in contact with the lesser developed countries of the East. They found their civilization and culture very interesting and established the science of orientalism (the study of the orientals/people from these exotic civilisation).
- Said argues Europeans divided the world into two parts; the East (Orient)and the west (Occident) or the civilized and the uncivilised - an artificial boundary
- The Europeans used orientalism to define themselves. Some particular attributes were associated with the Orientals. Europeans defined themselves as the superior race compared to the orientals; and they justified their colonization by this concept. They said that it was their duty towards the world to civilize the uncivilised world
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