dc.contributor.author |
Eddy, Timothy Neil, |
dc.date.accessioned |
2017-08-30T14:15:41Z |
dc.date.available |
2017-08-30T14:15:41Z |
dc.date.issued |
2015 |
dc.date.submitted |
2015 |
dc.identifier.other |
b18354348 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/10912 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, 2015. T:6281 |
dc.description |
Advisor : Dr. Hatim El-Hibri, Assistant Professor, Media Studies ; Members of Committee : Dr. Samer Frangie, Assistant Professor, Political Studies ; Dr. Karim Makdisi, Associate Professor, Political Studies. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-94) |
dc.description.abstract |
Many scholars, foremost among them Mahmood Mamdani, have identified an emerging hegemonic western discourse: the Good Muslim (GM)- Bad Muslim (BM) distinction. By distinguishing between those Muslims who are liberal, secular, and peaceful and those who are violent, anti-modern, and fundamentalist, prominent politicians, pundits, and media elite have avoided the trappings of a bigoted essentialist discourse that views Islam as a monolithic civilization condemned to violence and backwardness. Is this the limit of mainstream progressive discourses on Islam? Because The Daily Show (TDS) is considered to represent the liberal-progressive position within mainstream American politics, it seems like a logical place to launch such an investigation. This project will conduct a discursive analysis of TDS’s coverage of Islam in an attempt to analyze the discursive terrain in which it participates. This analysis concludes that TDS, despite espousing a clearly non-interventionist foreign policy stance on the Muslim world, rearticulates many of the tropes and discourses that feed into the GM-BM distinction |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (94 leaves) ; 30 cm |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
dc.subject.classification |
T:006281 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-. Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Islam and politics -- History -- 20th century. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Terrorism -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Causes. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Discourse analysis -- United States. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Liberalism (Religion) -- United States. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Democratization -- Islamic countries. |
dc.title |
The Daily Show and the Good Muslim - Bad Muslim distinction : an investigation of liberal discourses on Islam - |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. |
dc.contributor.department |
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration. |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut. |