Spaces of War, War of Spaces

290 Pages·2020·8.337 MB·English

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

Spaces of War,
War of Spaces
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Spaces of War,
War of Spaces
Edited by
Sarah Maltby, Ben O’Loughlin,
Katy Parry and Laura Roselle
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Names: Spaces of war, war of spaces conference ( 2018 : Florence, Italy) |
Maltby, Sarah, editor. | O’Loughlin, Ben, editor. | Parry, Katy, 1973-editor. |
Roselle, Laura, editor.
Title: Spaces of war : war of spaces / edited by Sarah Maltby,
Ben O’Loughlin, Katy Parry and Laura Roselle.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019053917 | ISBN 9781501360312 (hardback) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Mass media and war–Congresses. | Space and time in mass
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
Part I Spaces of War
Introduction Ben O’Loughlin and Laura Roselle 3
1 War art, digital media and the audience encounter
Jane Quinn 13
2 The cadastral: Towards a visual forensics of in/visible
spaces of war Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen 35
3 Digital spaces of war: Genre and affective investments
in RT’s representations of the Syrian conflict
Rhys Crilley and Precious Chatterje-Doody 61
4 Conspiracy and the epistemological challenges
of mediatized conflict Eileen Culloty 83
5 Command and control meet the decentralized
network: Conventional militaries, social media
and the information environment Kevin Foster 103
6 The myth of a thousand westerns: Media and
just war theory Sean Aday 123
Part II War of Spaces
7 Liminality, gendering and Syrian alternative media
spaces Dina Matar and Kholoud Helmi 143
8 #shaheed: A metaphotographic study of Kashmir’s
insurgency (2014–2016) Nathaniel Brunt 159
vi CONT ENTS
9 The Plain (a photographic work in progress)
Melanie Friend 179
10 This is not a bomb: Matériel culture and the arms
trade Jill Gibbon 187
11 Dialogic spaces in the situation of conflict: Stepping
stones and sticking points Liudmila Voronova 205
12 Perfect war and its contestations Jolle Demmers,
Lauren Gould and David Snetselaar 231
Conclusion: Where war inhabits Sarah Maltby and Katy
Parry 247
Editor and contributor biographies in alphabetical order 261
Index 266
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
1.1 Distillation of Terror, 2014. © John Keane. Courtesy of
Flowers Gallery 17
1.2 Aluminium Waste Pond at Petkovici, from the Bleed
series, 2005. © Simon Norfolk 19
1.3 Still taken from Space Exodus, 2008. Larissa Sansour.
Reproduced with the kind permission of the artist 21
1.4 Computer visualization Apparent Horizon, 2012.
David Cotterrell. Reproduced with the kind permission
of the artist 23
1.5 PhotoOp, 2005. © kennardphillipps 24
1.6a Through 3D modelling, Forensic Architecture
reconstructed the attack at the Iguala Palacio
de Justicia in Mexico. The Ayotzinapa Platform
enables users to explore the relationship between
thousands of events and hundreds of actors from
the night of 26–27 September 2014. The Ayotzinapa
Case: A Cartography of Violence. Images: Forensic
Architecture, 2017 28
1.6b After police left the scene at Periferico Norte, the
remaining students attempted to protect evidence of the
attacks. They held a press conference with journalists
and teachers after state officials failed to help the
students or process the crime scene. The Ayotzinapa
Case: A Cartography of Violence. Images: Forensic
Architecture, 2017 29
viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
2.1 Negative Publicity. 2011–2016 (series). © Edmund
Clark. Reproduced with kind permission 44
2.2 Negative Publicity. 2011–2016 (series). © Edmund
Clark. Reproduced with kind permission 45
2.3 Negative Publicity. 2011–2016 (series). © Edmund
Clark. Reproduced with kind permission 46
2.4 Negative Publicity. 2011–2016 (series). © Edmund
Clark. Reproduced with kind permission 50
2.5 Negative Publicity. 2011–2016 (series). © Edmund
Clark. Reproduced with kind permission 51
2.6 Negative Publicity. 2011–2016 (series). © Edmund
Clark. Reproduced with kind permission 54
8.1 Hundreds of people gather in Kakapora, Kashmir, for
the funeral of 21-year-old Talib Ahmed Shah, a Kashmiri
Lashkar-e-Taiba militant. © Nathaniel Brunt 160
8.2 Villagers document the funeral of 21-year-old
Talib Ahmed Shah, a Kashmiri Lashkar-e-Taiba
militant. Funerals of militants have become hyper-
photographed events in the post-2013 period. ©
Nathaniel Brunt 160
8.3 A selection of photographs taken by the author in
early 2013. © Nathaniel Brunt 164
8.4 Showkat Ahmed and his mother display a collage of
family photographs in their home in Chittybandi. ©
Nathaniel Brunt 166
8.5 A memorial banner featuring militant photographs
is displayed above a martyr’s graveyard in Pulwama
district south Kashmir. © Nathaniel Brunt 169
8.6 Kashmiri militants Davood Sheikh, Hilal Ahad Wani,
Junaid Mattoo, Mushtaq Ahmed Mir and Farooq Ahmed
pose for photographs with their weapons. All the young
men, members of militant groups Hizbul Mujahideen and
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
Lashkar-e-Taiba, were later killed in ‘encounters’ with
Indian security forces. The photographs were collected
by Nathaniel Brunt in 2016. The collage was made by
Nathaniel Brunt in 2017. Donated to the author by
anonymous, Summer 2016 170
8.7 HM militants Davood Sheikh and Hilal Ahad Wani.
Source: Donated to the author by anonymous,
Summer 2016 171
8.8 Installation view of Nathaniel Brunt, #shaheed, 2017.
Photo courtesy of Toni Hafkenscheid 173
9.1 From The Plain, © Melanie Friend. Original in
colour 180
9.2 From The Plain, © Melanie Friend. Original in colour 181
9.3 From The Plain, © Melanie Friend. Original in
colour 181
9.4 From The Plain, © Melanie Friend. Original in
colour 182
10.1 Bomb stress ball. © Ricky Adam. Reproduced with
kind permission 187
10.2 Grenade stress ball. © Ricky Adam. Reproduced with
kind permission 188
10.3 ‘Welcome to Hell’ sweet. © Ricky Adam. Reproduced
with kind permission 189
10.4 Tank. © Ricky Adam. Reproduced with kind
permission 189
10.5 Ammunition shell. © Ricky Adam. Reproduced with
kind permission 190
10.6 Soldier stress ball. © Ricky Adam. Reproduced with
kind permission 191
10.7 ‘The ultimate protection’ condom. © Ricky Adam.
Reproduced with kind permission 192