Spaces of War, War of Spaces
Description
Spaces of War, War of Spaces provides a rich, international and multi-disciplinary engagement with the convergence of war and media through the conceptual lens of 'space'. 'Space' offers a profound, challenging and original framework through which notions of communication, embodiment, enactment, memory and power are interrogated not only in terms of how media spaces (traditional, digital, cultural, aesthetic, embodied, mnemonic) transform the conduct, outcomes and consequences of war for all involved, but how 'war' actors (political, military, survivors, victims) recreate space in a manner that is transformative across political, social, cultural and personal spheres. Foregrounding the work of artists, activists and practitioners alongside more traditional scholarly approaches Spaces of War, War of Spaces engages with the 'messiness' of war and media through the convergence of practice and theory, where showing and embodying is made explicit.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Spaces of War
1.War art, digital media and the audience encounter (Jane Quinn, Birkbeck University of London, UK)
2.The Cadastral: towards a visual forensics of in/visible spaces of war (Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen, Cardiff University, UK)
3.Digital spaces of war: Genre and affective investments in RT's representations of the Syrian conflict (Rhys Crilley and Precious N. Chatterje-Doody, The Open University, UK)
4.Conspiracy and the epistemological challenges of mediatized conflict (Eileen Culloty, Dublin City University, Ireland)
5.Command and control meets the decentralised network: Conventional militaries, social media and the information environment (Kevin Foster, Monash University, Australia)
6.The myth of a thousand westerns: Media and just war theory (Sean Aday, George Washington University, USA)
Part Two: War of Spaces
7.Liminality, gendering and Syrian alternative media spaces (Dina Matar, SOAS University of London, UK and Kholoud Helmi, Enab Baladi Newspaper, Syria)
8.#Shaheed: A metaphotographic study of Kashmir's insurgency (2014-2016) (Nathaniel Brunt, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
9.The Plain (a photographic work-in-progress) (Melanie Friend, University of Sussex, UK)
10.This is not a bomb – matériel culture and the arms trade (Jill Gibbon, Leeds Beckett University, UK)
11.Dialogic spaces in the situation of conflict: stepping stones and sticking points (Liudmila Voronova, Södertörn University, Sweden)
12.Perfect war and its contestations (Jolle Demmers, Lauren Gould, and David Snetselaar Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)
Where War Inhabits: Reflections on Spaces of War
List of Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | 25 Jun 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781501360299 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 32 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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