"Backlash of the 'betrayed' squaddies": the framing of veteran anti-investigation activism on British news websites
"Backlash of the 'betrayed' squaddies": the framing of veteran anti-investigation activism on British news websites
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“‘背叛’小队的强烈反对”：英国新闻网站上资深反调查活动的框架
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10.1080/23337486.2023.2283642
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2023
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Richards H
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Richards H
本文探讨了针对北爱尔兰遗产调查，围绕老兵领导的抗议活动的流行媒体表述，特定的军事暴力框架是如何出现、巩固和破裂的。出于对广受欢迎的亲军国主义媒体如何应对反激进主义引起关注的令人不安的极端和非法军事暴力事件的好奇，本文利用对反激进主义的新闻报道的语篇分析，质问与正式的法律和真相寻求机制不同的是，合法和非法的暴力行为之间是如何划分的。基于对72篇在线新闻文章中372张照片及其相关文本的分析，我认为，这些报道是围绕着军事暴力是自然和必要的理解而组织的，(重新)产生了一个基本无忧无虑的幻想，即一个同质的国家社区被对其“小兵”的调查所背叛。这些关于军事英雄主义和国家背叛的流畅叙述只允许部分中断，这些军事越轨故事掩盖了国家主导的调查本应寻求解决的暴力行为，从而抑制了它们的破坏潜力。
This article examines how particular frames of military violence emerge, solidify, and fracture around popular media representations of veteran-led protest in response to the Northern Ireland legacy investigations. Curious about how popular ‘pro-militarist’ media navigate unsettling incidents of extreme and unlawful military violence that anti-activism draws attention to, this article uses a discourse analysis of the news coverage of the activism to interrogate how boundaries, distinct to those of formal legal and truth-seeking mechanisms, between ‘legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ violences, are drawn. Based on an analysis of 372 photographs and their attendant texts from 72 online news articles, I argue that the coverage is organized around an understanding of military violence as natural and necessary, (re)producing a largely untroubled fantasy of a homogenous national community betrayed by the investigation of its ‘squaddies’. In allowing only partial ruptures in an otherwise smooth narrative of military heroism and betrayal by the state, these stories of military transgression inhibit the disruptive potential of state-led investigations by obscuring the violence they supposedly seek to address.