Borderland

Decolonizing the Words of War

Chrisanthi Giotis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-756580-3 (ISBN)

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Every two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994, there has been ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has uprooted millions of people and resulted in the deaths of millions more. In the West, we have entered a political era where our border policies are underpinned by unending wars. At this critical juncture, how can journalists, especially those engaged in foreign correspondence, tell these stories? How can they make connections across time and space, and across politics, economics, environments, and crucially, people? Given its colonial history, are these connections possible for the profession of foreign correspondence?

In Borderland, Chrisanthi Giotis argues that decolonization is possible and necessary for the development of a truly global, public sphere. New global narratives need to meaningfully include the voices, and knowledge, of those with the least power who are caught in resource-fuelled wars. Drawing on insights from postcolonial studies, international relations, development studies, and philosophy, which are brought to life through auto-ethnographic descriptions and analysis of "behind-the-scenes" events, Giotis introduces new reporting techniques for foreign correspondents. Borderland argues that decolonized reporting techniques will help journalists--and their audiences--move beyond the sociohistorical and political myopia that prevents us from communicating and understanding the reality of a complex world.

Chrisanthi Giotis is a lecturer in journalism at the University of South Australia and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Transition at the University of Technology Sydney. Her decolonial research focuses on connecting marginalized communities with working journalists and has been used by reporters in Australian newsrooms, including the ABC and the Australian Financial Review. A former journalist and deputy editor in Australia and the UK, she focused on government, Indigenous affairs, and social enterprise reporting, and led her own entrepreneurial journalism project that reported from 10 African countries.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Global Polity

Part One: Words

Chapter 1: Long Dark Shadows in our Heads
Chapter 2: Writing with Interlocutors

Part Two: Worlds

Chapter 3: The Spacetime Behind the Storylines
Chapter 4: The Hero Correspondent and the Hidden Fixer
Chapter 5: Reporting the Local and Global of Borderlands
Chapter 6: Decolonizing and Reimagining
Conclusion: Flaming the Fanonian Spark

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	JOURNALISM AND POL COMMUN UNBOUND SERIES
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 156 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-756580-8 / 0197565808
ISBN-13	978-0-19-756580-3 / 9780197565803
Zustand	Neuware