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Spaces of War, War of Spaces ii Spaces of War, War of Spaces Edited by Sarah Maltby, Ben O’Loughlin, Katy Parry and Laura Roselle BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2020 Volume Editor’s Part of the Work © Sarah Maltby, Ben O’Loughlin, Katy Parry and Laura Roselle Each chapter © of Contributors For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. xi constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover image © Simon Norfolk All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2019053917 | ISBN 9781501360312 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501360299 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Mass media and war–Congresses. | Space and time in mass media–Congresses. Classification: LCC P96.W35 .S725 2020 | DDC 303.6/6–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019053917 ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-6031-2 ePDF: 978-1-5013-6029-9 eBook: 978-1-5013-6030-5 Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. 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
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