Prof Gavan Titley
Biography
I am a Professor in the Department of Media Studies, where I have worked since 2005.
My longstanding research interests and commitments are in the politics of race, racism and multiculturalism in European politics, and the generative role of media and communications in this politics.
In this field my most recent book is the The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto (2024) with Anamik Saha and Francesca Sobande, for Polity Press's Media Manifesto series.
In this field my most recent book is the The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto (2024) with Anamik Saha and Francesca Sobande, for Polity Press's Media Manifesto series.
Previous books include Racism and Media (Sage Publications, 2019), The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, written with Alana Lentin (Zed Books 2011), the co-edited National Conversations: Cultural Diversity and Public Service Media (Intellect Books 2014) and After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism, Free Speech (Zed Books 2017).
I am currently interested in ideas and understandings of freedom of speech in a context of democratic crisis and communicative abundance. In exploring this theme I have published Is Free Speech Racist? (Polity Press, 2020) and I am currently working on a further book, What is Free Speech For? for Bristol University Press's new What Is It For? series.
I am a PI on the EU Horizon Europe-funded project 'RESIST: Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances Against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics' (2022 - 2026).
I currently act as supervisor to two doctoral projects: Sian Cowman's (Hume Fellow Scholarship holder) study of the media construction and political consequences of the category of 'climate migration', and Conall Ó Fátharta's (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship holder) study of processes and practices of journalistic framing in the public revelation of Church and State scandals 1990-2020.
I am a Docent in Media and Communications at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. With Alana Lentin, I edit the book series Challenging Migration Studies (Rowman & Littlefield). I write occasionally for The Guardian (profile here)
In 2022 I was awarded the annual Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Research Achievement Award, and was also the overall winner of the Maynooth University Research Achievement Award.
I currently act as supervisor to two doctoral projects: Sian Cowman's (Hume Fellow Scholarship holder) study of the media construction and political consequences of the category of 'climate migration', and Conall Ó Fátharta's (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship holder) study of processes and practices of journalistic framing in the public revelation of Church and State scandals 1990-2020.
I am a Docent in Media and Communications at the Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. With Alana Lentin, I edit the book series Challenging Migration Studies (Rowman & Littlefield). I write occasionally for The Guardian (profile here)
In 2022 I was awarded the annual Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Research Achievement Award, and was also the overall winner of the Maynooth University Research Achievement Award.
Research Interests
My research is primarily focused on the study of racisms in Europe, with an emphasis on the transnational construction of public discourse, the production of racism in hybrid media systems, the politics of 'post-racial' public spheres, and discourses for the 'management of difference' in media and public life. I am also interested in the translation and adaptation of political philosophy in media and communications theory, and the status of mediated communications in social and political theory. More recently I have been researching institutional and actor understandings of free speech and 'hate speech' in connective media networks.
Book
Year | Publication | |
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2024 | Anamik Saha; Francesca Sobande; Gavan Titley (2024) The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto. Cambridge UK: Polity Press. | |
2020 | Gavan Titley (2020) Is Free Speech Racist?. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. [Link] | |
2019 | Gavan Titley (2019) Racism and Media. London: Sage Publications. | |
2011 | Gavan Titley, Alana Lentin (2011) The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age. London: Zed Books. [Link] | |
2010 | Gavan Titley (2010) Broadcasting in the New Ireland: Mapping and Envisioning Cultural Diversity. Dublin: NUIM/BCI. [Full-Text] |
Edited Book
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Nikunen K., M. Pantti, G Titley (Ed.). (2021) Nationalisms and Racisms on Digital Media: Special Issue of Television & New Media. London: Sage Publications, [Link] | |
2017 | Gavan Titley, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany, Aurelien Mondon (Ed.). (2017) After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism, Free Speech. London: Zed Books, [Link] | |
2014 | Gavan Titley, Miyase Christensen (Ed.). (2014) Technology and Emancipation, special issue of Popular Communication. London: Taylor & Francis, | |
2014 | Gavan Titley, Karina Horsti, Gunilla Húlten (Ed.). (2014) National Conversations? Public Service Broadcasting and Cultural Diversity. Bristol: Intellect Books, [Link] | |
2012 | Gavan Titley, Alana Lentin (Ed.). (2012) Multicultural 'crisis' in Europe? Special issue of The European Journal of Cultural Studies. London: Sage Publications, [Full-Text] | |
2010 | Gavan Titley, Mark Maguire (Ed.). (2010) Integration? Special issue of Translocations: Migration and Social Change. Dublin: DCU/UCD, [Full-Text] | |
2008 | Gavan Titley, Alana Lentin (Ed.). (2008) The Politics of Diversity in Europe. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, [Link] | |
2004 | Gavan Titley (Ed.). (2004) Resituating Culture. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Georgiou M.; Titley G. (2022) 'Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis'. International Journal of Cultural Studies, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2021 | Titley, G., A. Lentin (2021) 'Islamophobia, race and the attack on antiracism in France'. French Cultural Studies, 32 (3):296-310. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558211027062 [Full-Text] | |
2021 | Titley, G; Nikunen, K; Pantti, M (2021) 'Shifting Formations, Formative Infrastructures: Nationalisms and Racisms in Media Circulation'. Television and New Media, 22 :103-111. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Titley G. (2020) 'Racism and media, in a moment of crisis and opportunity'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43 (13):2386-2394. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Laaksonen, SM; Pantti, M; Titley, G (2020) 'Broadcasting the Movement and Branding Political Microcelebrities: Finnish Anti-Immigration Video Practices on YouTube'. Journal of Communication, 70 :171-194. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Gavan Titley (2020) 'Notes on the distribution of nationalist and racist discourse'. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1780245 [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Pantti, M; Nelimarkka, M; Nikunen, K; Titley, G (2019) 'The meanings of racism: Public discourses about racism in Finnish news media and online discussion forums'. European Journal of Communication, 34 :503-519. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Titley G. (2019) 'Taboo news about Sweden: the transnational assemblage of a racialized spatial imaginary'. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 39 (11-12):1010-1023. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Browne H.; Coulter C.; Flynn R.; Hetherington V.; Titley G. (2018) '‘Pitstop of Death’: Irish newspaper coverage of Iraq war protests at Shannon airport*'. Irish Political Studies, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Colin Coulter, Harry Browne, Roddy Flynn, Vanessa Hetherington, Gavan Titley (2016) 'These people protesting might not be so strident if their own jobs were on the line’: Representations of the ‘economic consequences’ of opposition to the Iraq war in the Irish national press'. Media, War and Conflict, 9 (2):113-136. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635216637635 [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Titley, G (2016) 'On Are we all postracial yet?'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39 :2269-2277. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | Fenton, N; Titley, G (2015) 'Mourning and longing: Media studies learning to let go of liberal democracy'. European Journal of Communication, 30 :554-570. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Downey, J; Titley, G; Toynbee, J (2014) 'Ideology critique: the challenge for media studies'. Media, Culture and Society, 36 :878-887. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Titley, G. (2014) 'No apologies for cross-posting: European trans-media space and the digital circuitries of racism'. CROSSINGS: JOURNAL OF MIGRATION & CULTURE, Vol. 5 . [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Titley G (2014) ''After the end of multiculturalism: public service media and integrationist imaginaries for the governance of difference''. GLOBAL MEDIA AND COMMUNCATION, 10 . [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Titley, G (2013) 'Budgetjam! A communications intervention in the political-economic crisis in Ireland'. Journalism, 14 :292-306. [DOI] | |
2013 | Titley, G. (2013) 'They called a war, and someone came: the communicative politics of Breivik’s ideoscape '. NORDIC JOURNAL OF MIGRATION RESEARCH, 3 . [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Titley, G (2012) 'Getting integration right? Media transnationalism and domopolitics in Ireland'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35 :817-833. [DOI] | |
2012 | Titley G, A Lentin (2012) '‘The crisis of multiculturalism in Europe: mediated minarets, intolerable subjects''. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15 :123-138. [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Dr Gavan Titley (2011) 'Circuits of aversion: the transnational mediation of multicultural crisis'. IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGYJOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, 19 :43-59. [Full-Text] | |
2010 | Maguire, M. and Titley, G. (2010) 'The Body and Soul of Integration'. Translocations: Migration and Social Change, 6 :1-19. [Full-Text] | |
2008 | Titley, G. (2008) 'Backlash! Just in Case: Political Correctness, Immigration and the Rise of Preactionary Discourse in Irish Public Debate'. 38 :94-110. [Full-Text] | |
2008 | Titley, G. (2008) 'Youth, Intercultural Learning and Cultural Politics in Europe: Some Current Debates'. YOUTH STUDIES IRELAND, 3 . [Full-Text] | |
2008 | Titley, G. (2008) 'Media transnationalism in Ireland: an examination of Polish media practices'. TRANSLOCATIONS: THE IRISH MIGRATION, RACE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION REVIEW, 3 . [Full-Text] | |
2004 | Titley, G. (2004) 'Everything Moves? Beyond Culture and Multiculturalism in Irish Public Discourse'. 31 . [Full-Text] | |
2003 | Titley, G. (2003) 'The Nation as Location: Transnational Discussions of the Image of St Lucia'. JOURNAL OF THE FINNISH ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 2 . | |
2003 | Newby, A and G. Titley (2003) 'The “War on Terror” and Non-Alignment'. Peace Review, 15 . [Full-Text] | |
2003 | Titley G (2003) 'Cultivating Habitats of Meaning: Broadcasting and Interculturalism in Ireland'. Irish Communications Review, 8 . [Full-Text] | |
2001 | Titley G (2001) ''Global Theory and Touristic Encounters'. Irish Communications Review, 7 . [Full-Text] |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | G. Titley (2021) 'Race & ethnicity studies and citizen media' In: The Routledge Encylopedia of Citizen Media. London : Routledge. | |
2020 | Gavan Titley (2020) 'Racisms, Migration and Media: A Reflection on Mutable Understandings and Shifting ‘Problem Populations’' In: The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration. London UK : Sage Publications. [Link] | |
2014 | G. Titley (2014) ''Migration'' In: The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cambridge : Wiley Blackwell. | |
2018 | Lentin, A; Titley, G (2018) ''Non, je ne serai jamais Charlie': Anti-Muslim Racism, Transnational Translation, and Left Anti-racisms' In: MUSLIMS, TRUST AND MULTICULTURALISM: NEW DIRECTIONS. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE. [DOI] | |
2017 | Gavan Titley (2017) 'Becoming symbolic: From Charlie Hebdo to 'Charlie Hebdo'' In: After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism, Free Speech. London : Zed Books. [Link] | |
2015 | Titley G. (2015) 'All aboard the migration nation' In: Ireland Under Austerity: Neoliberal Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions. | |
2014 | Gavan Titley, Alana Lentin (2014) 'More Proof, If Proof Were Needed: Spectacles of Secular Insistence, Multicultural Failure, and the Contemporary Laundering of Racism' In: Rosi Braidotti et al(Eds.). The Postsecular Condition. : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2014 | Lentin, A; Titley, G (2014) 'More Proof, If Proof Were Needed: Spectacles of Secular Insistence, Multicultural Failure, and the Contemporary Laundering of Racism' In: TRANSFORMATIONS OF RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: POSTSECULAR PUBLICS. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE. | |
2013 | Kerr, A; King-O' Riain, R; Titley, G (2013) 'Transnational media networks and the 'migration nation'' In: MIGRATIONS: IRELAND IN A GLOBAL WORLD. MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS. [Full-Text] | |
2014 | Titley G. (2014) 'Ireland, the ‘migration nation’: Public service media responses metween discourse and desire' In: National Conversations: Public Service Media and Cultural Diversity in Europe. | |
2014 | Titley, G (2014) 'Ireland, the 'Migration Nation': Public Service Media Responses Between Discourse and Desire' In: NATIONAL CONVERSATIONS: PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN EUROPE. OXFORD : INTELLECT LTD. | |
2013 | Cola M.; Nikunen K.; Dhoest A.; Titley G. (2013) '‘Lost in mainstreaming’?: Ethnic minority audiences for public and private television broadcasting' In: Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity. [DOI] | |
2012 | Titley, G (2012) 'In the Discourse Laboratory: Migrant Media and the Politics of Migration' In: MEDIATING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN A GLOBALIZED PUBLIC SPACE. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE. | |
2011 | Titley, G; Kerr, A (2011) 'Polish Migrants and Media Transnationalism' In: GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: IRELAND IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD. ALDERSHOT : ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD. | |
2014 | Dr Gavan Titley (2014) '‘Ireland, the “migration nation”: public service media responses between discourse and desire’' In: Titley, Gavan, Karina Horsti & Gunilla Húlten(Eds.). National Conversations? Public Service Broadcasting and Cultural Diversity. London : Intellect Books. | |
2014 | Dr Gavan Titley (2014) '‘Introduction: National conversations: public service media and cultural diversity in Europe’' In: Titley, Gavan, Karina Horsti & Gunilla Húlten(Eds.). National Conversations? Public Service Broadcasting and Cultural Diversity. London : Intellect Books. | |
2013 | Dr Gavan Titley, Dr Aphra Kerr, Dr Rebecca King O'Riain (2013) 'Transnational media networks and the “Migration Nation”’' In: Mary Gilmartin & Allen White(Eds.). Migrations: Ireland in a Global World:. Manchester : Manchester University Press. [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Dr Gavan Titley, Dr Alexander Dhoest, Dr Kaarina Nikunen, Dr Marta Cola (2013) '‘Lost in mainstreaming’? Ethnic minority audiences for public and private broadcasting'' In: Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schroder, Lawrie Hallett(Eds.). Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity. London : Routledge. | |
2012 | Dr Gavan Titley (2012) '‘In the discourse laboratory: migrant media and the politics of migration’' In: Isabelle Rignoni, Eugenié Saitta(Eds.). Mediating Cultural Diversity in a Globalised Public Space. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2012 | Dr Gavan Titley (2012) '‘After the failed experiment: intercultural learning in a multicultural crisis’' In: Ohana, Yael & Hendrik Otten(Eds.). Where do You Stand? Intercultural Learning and Political Education in Contemporary Europe. Frankfurt : VS Verlag. | |
2011 | Dr Gavan Titley, Dr Aphra Kerr (2011) '‘Here, there and everywhere: Polish media transnationalism’' In: Bryan Fanning, Ronaldo Munck(Eds.). Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation: Ireland in Europe and the World. Farnham : Ashgate. | |
2010 | Titley, G (2010) 'Celtic, Christian and Cosmopolitan: ‘Migrants’ and the Mediation of Exceptional Globalisation' In: Ging, Debbie, Michael Cronin & Peadar Kirby(Eds.). Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques, Resources. Manchester : Manchester University Press. | |
2009 | Titley, G (2009) 'Pleasing the crisis: anxiety and recited multiculturalism in the European communicative space' In: Inka Salovaara Möring(Eds.). Manufacturing Europe: Spaces of Democracy, Diversity and Communication. Göteborg : Nordicom. | |
2008 | Titley, G. and A. Lentin (2008) 'More Benetton than Barricades? The Politics of Diversity in Europe' In: G. Titley and A. Lentin(Eds.). Politics of Diversity in Europe. Strasbourg : Council of Europe Publishing. | |
2004 | Titley, G (2004) 'Resituating Culture: an Introduction' In: Gavan Titley(Eds.). Resituating Culture. Strasbourg : Council of Europe Publishing. | |
2004 | Titley, G (2004) 'Culture as Experience, Idea and Rhetoric' In: Lauritzen, Peter & Hendrik Otten(Eds.). Jugendarbeit und Jugendpolitik in Europa. Frankfurt : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften. | |
2004 | Titley, G (2004) 'All Sights Reserved: All-Inclusive Resorts and the Imagined Caribbean' In: Sandra Courtman(Eds.). Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana: New Directions in Caribbean Studies. Kingston : Ian Randle Publishers. | |
2003 | Newby, A. and G. Titley (2003) '9-11 and the Death of Neutrality: Finland, Ireland and NATO' In: Kangaspuro, Markku & Teemu Matinpuro(Eds.). Suomi ja Nato: Eurooppalaisia näkökulmia sotilasliitosta (Finland and Nato: European Perspectives on Military Alignment). Helsinki : Like. | |
2000 | Titley, G (2000) 'Irish Cultural Studies?' In: Mathews, P.J(Eds.). New Voices in Irish Criticism. Dublin : Four Courts Press. |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2012 | Maguire, M., M. Gilmartin & G. Titley (2012) 'Heart of Bourdieu: an interview with Loic Wacquant' Irish Journal of Anthropology, 15 . [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Dr Gavan Titley (2012) '‘Turning TINA: Budgetjam! And the Irish political-economic crisis’' Global Civil Society Yearbook (LSE), 10 . | |
2010 | Dr Gavan Titley (2010) 'Never ending, never open: Finnish ‘immigration debates’ in European context' Perspectives on European Security Yearbook 2010, 2 . | |
2009 | Dr Gavan Titley et al (2009) ''What do we mean when we say integration? A discussion'' Irish Journal of Anthropology, 12 . [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Dr Gavan Titley (2009) 'Meltdown makeover: TV3's The Apprentice' Irish Film and Television Review – 2008. Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, 4 . |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2014 | Gavan Titley (2014) 'Islamophobia and the politics of Empire'. [Book Review] | |
2013 | Titley, G (2013) Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece. LONDON: [Book Review] [DOI] | |
2013 | Dr Gavan Titley (2013) 'Sustainable Politics and the Crises of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece’. [Book Review] | |
2009 | Dr Gavan Titley (2009) 'Seaview'. [Book Review] | |
2009 | Dr Gavan Titley (2009) 'On Bryan Fannings New Guests of the Irish Nation. [Book Review] | |
2009 | Gavan Titley (2009) ‘Projecting Migration: Trancultural Media Practice’. [Book Review] | |
2008 | Dr Gavan Titley (2008) 'The BBC's Meet the Immigrants'. [Book Review] |
Editorial
Year | Publication | |
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2014 | Christensen M.; Titley G. (2014) Technology and the Question of Empowerment. [Editorial] [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Magazine Article
Newspaper Articles
Technical Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2010 | Dr Gavan Titley (2010) 'Ireland', in Protecting the News: Civil Society and the Media, report of the Carnegie UK Making Good Society. [Technical Publication] [Full-Text] | |
2004 | Dr Gavan Titley (2004) Youth Work with Boys and Young Men as a Means to Preventing Violence in Everyday Life. [Technical Publication] | |
2002 | Titley, G. and P. Merry (2002) Media Literacy and Image Education in Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK. Brussels: [Technical Publication] |
Working Paper
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