Cyprus and Its Conflicts

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: A Multidisciplinary and Multiperspectival Approach to Conflict

Part I — The Materiality of Conflict in Cyprus

Chapter 1 — Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus: The Problematic Rethinking of a Conflicted Past

Chapter 2 — Soundmarks of Conflict in the City Centre of Divided Nicosia

Chapter 3 — Bridge over Troubled …

Chapter 4 — Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus: Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and Critiques

Part II — Conflict Representations of Cyprus from Within (North and South)

Chapter 5 — The 'Others' in Peace Talks: Representation of 'Us' and 'Them' in the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot Press

Chapter 6 — Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Cypriot Bailout

Chapter 7 — Challenging the Sacredness of 'the Mediated Centre': The Shift in Media Discourses on Bicommunal Relations in Cyprus after the Crossing Points Opening in 2003

Chapter 8 — The Cypriot 'Occupy the Buffer Zone' Movement: Online Discursive Frames and Civic Engagement

Part III — Conflict Representations of Cyprus from the Outside

Chapter 9 — Whose Flags Are These? Apollon Limassol vs. Trabzonspor Football Matches in Turkish Online News and User Comments as a Case of 'Banal Nationalism'

Chapter 10 — A Treasure in Varosha: The Role of a Cypriot Myth in the Construction of Turkish Nationalist Identity

Chapter 11 — Pax Troikana: The U.K. Media and the Symbolic Conflicts of the Cypriot 'Rescue' Programme

Chapter 12 — Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses of the Cypriot Economic Crisis by Greek Media

Conclusion — Studying Conflicts in Cyprus: Lessons Learned for Conflict Studies

Index