Theorising Media and Conflict / Edition 1

by Philipp Budka, Birgit Br uchler

Overview

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Through epistemological and methodological reflections and the analyses of various case studies from around the globe, this volume provides evidence for the co-constitutiveness of media and conflict and contributes to their consolidation as a distinct area of scholarship. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789206821
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	04/09/2020
Series:	Anthropology of Media , #10
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philipp Budka is Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. He is the co-editor of Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance (Vienna UniversityPress, 2019) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, and a senior research fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (Berghahn, 2013) and The Cultural Dimension of Peace (Palgrave, 2015), editor of Reconciling Indonesia (Routledge, 2009) and Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of Theorising Media and Practice (Berghahn, 2010) with John Postill, and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

Table of Contents

Preface
Philipp Budka

PART I: KEY DEBATES

Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Theorising Media and Conflict
Birgit Bräuchler and Philipp Budka

Chapter 1. Transforming Media and Conflict Research
Nicole Stremlau

PART II: WITNESSING CONFLICT

Chapter 2 Just a ‘Stupid Reflex’? Digital Witnessing of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Mediation of Conflict
Johanna Sumiala, Minttu Tikka and Katja Valaskivi

Chapter 3. The Ambivalent Aesthetics and Perception of Mobile Phone Videos: A (De-)Escalating Factor for the Syrian Conflict
Mareike Meis

PART III: EXPERIENCING CONFLICT

Chapter 4. Banal Phenomenologies of Conflict: Professional Media Cultures and Audiences of Distant Suffering
Tim Markham

Chapter 5. Learning to Listen: Theorising the Sounds of Contemporary Media and Conflict
Matthew Sumera

PART IV: MEDIATED CONFLICT LANGUAGE

Chapter 6. Trolling and the Orders and Disorders of Communication in ‘(Dis)Information Society’
Jonathan Paul Marshall

Chapter 7. ‘Your Rockets Are Late. Do We Get a Free Pizza?’: Israeli-Palestinian Twitter Dialogues and Boundary Maintenance in the 2014 Gaza War
Oren Livio

PART V: SITES OF CONFLICT

Chpapter 8. What Violent Conflict Tells Us about Media and Place-Making (and Vice Versa): Ethnographic Observations from a Revolutionary Uprising
Nina Grønlykke Mollerup

Chapter 9. An Ayuujk ‘Media War’ over Water and Land: Mediatised Senses of Belonging between Mexico and the United States
Ingrid Kummels

PART VI: CONFLICT ACROSS BORDERS

Chapter 10. Transnationalising the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Media Rituals and Diaspora Activism between California and the South Caucasus
Rik Adriaans

Chapter 11. Stones Thrown Online: The Politics of Insults, Distance and Impunity in Congolese Polémique
Katrien Pype

PART VII: AFTER CONFLICT

Chapter 12. Mending the Wounds of War: A Framework for the Analysis of the Representation of Conflict-Related Trauma and Reconciliation in Cinema
Lennart Soberon, Kevin Smets and Daniel Biltereyst

Chapter 13. Going off the Record? On the Relationship between Media and the Formation of National Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Silke Oldenburg

Chapter 14. From War to Peace in Indonesia: Transforming Media and Society
Birgit Bräuchler

Afterword
John Postill

Index

Editorial Reviews

“The present format does not allow me to do justice to all the contributions, but I can highly recommend the reader to take a closer look at [this volume that] brings new perspectives to the table and helps us move our attention from quantitative evaluations of the role of media in conflicts to the everyday media practices in conflict areas… The book is an ethnographic contribution to the study of media and conflict, adding qualitative research to a field where quantitative studies traditionally have dominated. It is easily accessible,and I believe that it is of relevance for students and researchers within the fields of media, communication and conflict. I hope that the volume finds the audience it deserves.” • Global Media Journal

“This volume is a welcome addition to security and war studies, communication, journalism and social sciences at large. All students who wonder how to study conflict without coming under fire could highly benefit from this book.” • Media, War and Conflict

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