{"product_id":"conflicted-making-news-from-global-war-hardback-9781503638242","title":"Conflicted; Making News from Global War (Hardback) 9781503638242","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConflicted\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaking News from Global War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsaac Blacksin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503638242\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Blacksin's clear interpretive voice plies journalism's unconscious, bringing to the fore the fear and trauma that is excised from reporting. \u003ci\u003eConflicted\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly extraordinary book—written with aplomb, thoroughly researched, and thoughtful through and through. A landmark text in the literature on the mediation of war.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Alex Fattal, author of \u003ci\u003eGuerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia\u003c\/i\u003e \"We live in an age of war and depend for our war stories on the men and women who serve as our witnesses. War reporters are a legendary breed whose vital work has gone largely unexamined—until now. \u003ci\u003eConflicted\u003c\/i\u003e is quite simply the most thorough, intelligent, and unflinching examination of conflict reporting ever attempted. Isaac Blacksin has been there and his provocative account made me nod in recognition, grin in appreciation, and shout in outrage. For those transfixed by war—and determined to learn how we really know what we think we know about it—this book is essential reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Mark Danner, author of \u003ci\u003eStripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSpiral: Trapped in the Forever War\u003c\/i\u003e \"A thoughtful work that draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and psychoanalysis, \u003ci\u003eConflicted\u003c\/i\u003e does not make for light reading. It does, however, provide a corrective to a practice like drone warfare and the seemingly easy acceptance of civilian casualties resulting from 'the Global War on Terrorism.' It also calls into question the 'bearing witness' of journalistic professions.... Recommended.\"—R. C. Cottrell, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eConflicted\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling critique of war journalism that challenges conventional narratives and advocates for a more detailed and critical approach to conflict reporting.... This book is essential for anyone interested in the intersection of media, war, and society.\"—Mahedi Hasan, \u003ci\u003eJournalism \u0026amp; Mass Communication Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eConflicted: Making News from Global War\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a major intervention for critical scholarship, in my view, and as such is essential reading not only for those concerned with war reportage but also for anyone endeavoring to rethink familiar presumptions about journalistic form, practice, and epistemology.\"—Stuart Allan, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Press\/Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, \u003ci\u003eConflicted\u003c\/i\u003e challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be. Turning the lens on journalists from \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlacksin argues that journalism's humanitarian frame—now hegemonic in conflict coverage—serves to depoliticize and remoralize war, transforming war from an effect of policy on populations to a matter of violence against the innocent. Exploring the tension between experience and expression in conditions of violence, and tracking how journalists respond to dominant expectations of reality, \u003ci\u003eConflicted\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: War's Lobby: The Displacements of Journalism in Wartime\u003cbr\u003e  Interlude: Cheapening Experience\u003cbr\u003e  Part I: The Language of War Reportage and Its Conditions\u003cbr\u003e  1. Folklore of the Future: The Certainty of Journalistic Expression\u003cbr\u003e  2. Visible System and Invisible Rules: Commodifying Common Sense\u003cbr\u003e  Interlude: Available Stories\u003cbr\u003e  Part II: The Meaning of War Reportage and Its Exclusions\u003cbr\u003e  3. Extermination as Protection: Depoliticizing War, Remoralizing Violence\u003cbr\u003e  4. Power Speaking to Truth: Struggles with the Problem of War\u003cbr\u003e  Interlude: What to Make of It\u003cbr\u003e  Part III: The Practice of War Reportage and Its Contradictions\u003cbr\u003e  5. Writing Conflicts: The Tension Between Experience and Expression\u003cbr\u003e  6. Agitation at the Margins: Return of the Journalistically Repressed\u003cbr\u003e  Interlude: Leaving Mosul\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: War's Exit: Entangled Possibility in the Age of Endless Conflict\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: From Mosul to Mariupol\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610708635928,"sku":"9781503638242","price":103.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/conflicted-making-news-from-global-war-hardback-9781503638242","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}