Theorising Media and Conflict

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Theorising Media and Conflict

Edited by: Philipp Budka and Birgit Bräuchler

Volume 10 in the series Anthropology of Media

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206838

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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 University Press, 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.

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 University Press, 2019) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Philipp Budka Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
PART I. KEY DEBATES
Introduction Anthropological Perspectives on Theorising Media and Conflict Birgit Bräuchler and Philipp Budka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Transforming Media and Conflict Research Nicole Stremlau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
PART II. WITNESSING CONFLICT
2. Just a ‘Stupid Reflex’? Digital Witnessing of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Mediation of Conflict Johanna Sumiala, Minttu Tikka and Katja Valaskivi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3. The Ambivalent Aesthetics and Perception of Mobile Phone Videos A (De-)Escalating Factor for the Syrian Conflict Mareike Meis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
PART III. EXPERIENCING CONFLICT
4. Banal Phenomenologies of Conflict Professional Media Cultures and Audiences of Distant Suffering Tim Markham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5. Learning to Listen Theorising the Sounds of Contemporary Media and Conflict Matthew Sumera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
PART IV. MEDIATED CONFLICT LANGUAGE
6. Trolling and the Orders and Disorders of Communication in ‘(Dis)Information Society’ Jonathan Paul Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
PART V. SITES OF CONFLICT
8. What Violent Conflict Tells Us about Media and Place-Making (and Vice Versa) Ethnographic Observations from a Revolutionary Uprising Nina Grønlykke Mollerup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
9. An Ayuujk ‘Media War’ over Water and Land Mediatised Senses of Belonging between Mexico and the United States Ingrid Kummels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
PART VI. CONFLICT ACROSS BORDERS
10. Transnationalising the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Media Rituals and Diaspora Activism between California and the South Caucasus Rik Adriaans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
11. Stones Thrown Online The Politics of Insults, Distance and Impunity in Congolese Polémique Katrien Pype Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
PART VII. AFTER CONFLICT
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
13. Going off the Record? On the Relationship between Media and the Formation of National Identity in Post- Genocide Rwanda Silke Oldenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
14. From War to Peace in Indonesia Transforming Media and Society Birgit Bräuchler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Afterword John Postill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 350

eBook

Published: April 9, 2020
ISBN: 9781789206838