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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.
List 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
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 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.
Summary
Brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.
