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The Desertmakers
Travel, War, and the State in Latin America By Javier Uriarte Visit Routledge website for more information This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. By examining accounts of war and travel in the context of the consolidation of state apparatuses in these countries, Uriarte underlines the essential role that war (in connection to empire and capital) has played in the Latin American process of modernization and state formation. In this book, the analysis of British and Latin American travel narratives proves particularly productive in reading the…
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Spaces of War: Corporeal War: CFP Deadline 10th Jan 2020
May 21st-22nd 2020: Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy http://www.warandmedia.org/Spaces/ CFP: Deadline for abstracts 10th January 2020 Submission PAPERS: Please submit an abstract of 250 words with author affiliation and brief biog to: Sarah Maltby: s.maltby@sussex.ac.uk by 10th January 2020 PANELS: Panel submissions are welcome. Panel proposals should include no more than 4 papers in total, a short description (200 words) together with abstracts for each of the papers (150-200 words each including details of the contributor), and the name and contact details of the panel proposer. The panel proposer should co-ordinate the submissions for that panel as a single proposal. Submit to Sarah Maltby: s.maltby@sussex.ac.uk by 10th January 2020 WORKSHOPS: Alongside traditional papers, the expected conference…
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Women, Journalism, Violence
Visit the website of Prof Barbara Barnett to see her work on women journalists who cover violence. Barbara Barnett is based at the University of Kansas, USA and attended the Spaces of War conference in 2018 to discuss her research on women journalists who cover violence. After the conference, she received numerous requests to share the research more widely. Conscious that many journalists do not have access to academic libraries, and in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible, she created her website where she could (re)tell the stories of the journalists she has been working with. Prof. Barnett interviewed over 30 women journalists around the world…
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War Games: Memory, Militarism and the Subject of Play
New Book. Editors: Philip Hammond, Holger Pötzsch Published by Bloomsbury About War Games Many of today’s most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are war-themed titles that play out in what are framed as authentic real-world settings inspired by recent news headlines or drawn from history. While such games are marketed as authentic representations of war, they often provide a selective form of realism that eschews problematic, yet salient aspects of war. In addition, changes in the way Western states wage and frame actual wars makes contemporary conflicts increasingly resemble videogames when perceived from the vantage point of Western audiences. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from games studies, media…
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Spaces of War: Corporeal War
May 21st-22nd 2020 CFP: Deadline for abstracts 17th January 2020: extended on request website: www.warandmedia/Spaces Building on the success of our 2018 international conference ‘Spaces of War: War of Spaces’, the Editors of the Media, War and Conflict Journal are holding our second conference at Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy in May 2020. Alongside traditional papers, the expected conference programme will include film screenings and methodological workshops on Digital verification; Visuality/photography; The archive; Performance that are designed to facilitate the development of new ideas, networks and/or research proposals through dialogue with practitioners. Conference Themes In 2018 we were motivated by a feeling that broad theses on the transformation of war in…
