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Abstract

In the present study, I investigate the construction of otherness in the Greek anti-racist short film . Drawing on Critical Discourse Studies, I argue that although the film appears to combat racism, it simultaneously reproduces practices of discrimination. This contradiction is achieved via , namely a multi-layered and, thus, difficult to detect form of racism (Weaver 2011, 2016). More specifically, by combining Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) grammar of visual design with Bucholtz and Hall’s (2005) model for identities-in-interaction, I show that the film allows two different representations of otherness: (i) the caring Other, which resists the stereotype of the criminal migrant (anti-racist positioning) and (ii) the useful Other, which regulates migrant inclusion via eligibility criteria of usefulness (racist positioning).

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2024-10-17
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