Conflicted making news from global war / Isaac Blacksin.
| Author/creator | Blacksin, Isaac |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024] |
| Description | xiii, 313 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: War's lobby : the displacements of journalism in wartime -- Interlude : cheapening experience -- Folklore of the future : the certainty of journalistic expression -- Visible system and invisible rules : commodifying common sense -- Interlude : available stories -- Extermination as protection : depoliticizing war, remoralizing violence -- Power speaking to truth : struggles with the problem of war -- Interlude : what to make of it -- Writing conflicts : the tension between experience and text -- 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. |
| Abstract | "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, and Lebanon, as well as 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 re-moralize war, transforming it from an effect of policy on populations to an effect of violence on 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024003579 |
| ISBN | 9781503638242 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781503639447 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |