Conflicted

Making News from Global War

Isaac Blacksin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3824-2 (ISBN)

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How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones? Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be. Turning the lens on journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other prominent publications, Isaac Blacksin shows why news coverage of contemporary conflict, widely presumed to function as a critique of excessive violence, instead serves to sanction official rationales for war.

Blacksin argues that journalism's humanitarian frame—now hegemonic in conflict coverage—serves to depoliticize and remoralize war, transforming war from an effect of policy on populations to a matter of violence against the innocent. Exploring the tension between experience and expression in conditions of violence, and tracking how journalists respond to dominant expectations of reality, Conflicted tells the story of war, reporters, and the consequences of their convergence. As new wars, and new reportage, continue to shape our understanding of armed conflict, this book makes visible both the power and the particularity of war reportage.

Isaac Blacksin is an ethnographer and Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University.

Preface

Introduction: War's Lobby: The Displacements of Journalism in Wartime

Interlude: Cheapening Experience

Part I: The Language of War Reportage and Its Conditions

1. Folklore of the Future: The Certainty of Journalistic Expression

2. Visible System and Invisible Rules: Commodifying Common Sense

Interlude: Available Stories

Part II: The Meaning of War Reportage and Its Exclusions

3. Extermination as Protection: Depoliticizing War, Remoralizing Violence

4. Power Speaking to Truth: Struggles with the Problem of War

Interlude: What to Make of It

Part III: The Practice of War Reportage and Its Contradictions

5. Writing Conflicts: The Tension Between Experience and Expression

6. Agitation at the Margins: Return of the Journalistically Repressed

Interlude: Leaving Mosul

Conclusion: War's Exit: Entangled Possibility in the Age of Endless Conflict

Epilogue: From Mosul to Mariupol

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5036-3824-3 / 1503638243
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3824-2 / 9781503638242
Zustand	Neuware