Spaces of War, War of Spaces

✍ Scribed by Sarah Maltby (editor), Ben O'Loughlin (editor), Katy Parry (editor), Laura Roselle (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Part I: Spaces of War
Introduction • Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle
1 War art, digital media and the audience encounter • Jane Quinn
2 The cadastral: Towards a visual forensics of in/visible spaces of war • Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen
3 Digital spaces of war: Genre and affective investments in RT’s representations of the Syrian conflict • Rhys Crilley and Precious Chatterje-Doody
4 Conspiracy and the epistemological challenges of mediatized conflict • Eileen Culloty
5 Command and control meet the decentralized network: Conventional militaries, social media and the information environment • Kevin Foster
6 The myth of a thousand westerns: Media and just war theory • Sean Aday
Part II: War of Spaces
7 Liminality, gendering and Syrian alternative mediaspaces • Dina Matar and Kholoud Helmi
8 #shaheed: A metaphotographic study of Kashmir’s insurgency (2014–2016) • Nathaniel Brunt
9 The Plain (a photographic work in progress) • Melanie Friend
10 This is not a bomb: Matériel culture and the armstrade • Jill Gibbon
11 Dialogic spaces in the situation of conflict: Stepping stones and sticking points • Liudmila Voronova
12 Perfect war and its contestations • Jolle Demmers, Lauren Gould and David Snetselaar
Conclusion: Where war inhabits • Sarah Maltby and KatyParry
Editor and contributor biographies in alphabetical order
Index