Transnational activists, news media representations, and racialized 'politics of life': The christian peacemaker team kidnapping in Iraq

Citizenship Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-331

  Mahrouse, Gada ^a  

^a Simone DeBeauvoir Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activism; Canadian national identity; Humanitarianism; Orientalism; Racialization; Representations; Sexuality; Transnational solidarity; White privilege

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; CRIME; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; NATIONAL IDENTITY; RACE; WESTERN WORLD;

ASIA; BAGHDAD [IRAQ]; EURASIA; IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70349570423     PISSN: 13621025     EISSN: 14693593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13621020903011005     Document Type: Article

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