Spaces of War, War of Spaces

Sarah Maltby is Professor of Media and Communications at Sussex University, UK, and Founder and Coordinator of the War and Media Network (www.warandmedia.org). Her work focuses on military-media practice, the intersection of media, memory and identity in war and conflict, and representations of war and peace in military, journalistic and artistic output. Ben O'Loughlin is Professor of International Relations and Director of the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His work explores how political actors use communication to exercise power and influence.Katy Parry is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Her work focuses on visual politics and activism, images of war and representations of contemporary soldiering. Laura Roselle is Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies and Director of the Turnage Family Fund for the Study of Political Communication at Elon University, USA. Her work focuses on power and narrative construction.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: Spaces of War1.War art, digital media and the audience encounter (Jane Quinn, Birkbeck University of London, UK)2.The Cadastral: towards a visual forensics of in/visible spaces of war (Nicolette Barsdorf-Liebchen, Cardiff University, UK)3.Digital spaces of war: Genre and affective investments in RT’s representations of the Syrian conflict (Rhys Crilley and Precious N. Chatterje-Doody, The Open University, UK) 4.Conspiracy and the epistemological challenges of mediatized conflict (Eileen Culloty, Dublin City University, Ireland)5.Command and control meets the decentralised network: Conventional militaries, social media and the information environment (Kevin Foster, Monash University, Australia)6.The myth of a thousand westerns: Media and just war theory (Sean Aday, George Washington University, USA)Part Two: War of Spaces7.Liminality, gendering and Syrian alternative media spaces (Dina Matar, SOAS University of London, UK and Kholoud Helmi, Enab Baladi Newspaper, Syria) 8.#Shaheed: A metaphotographic study of Kashmir’s insurgency (2014-2016) (Nathaniel Brunt, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)9.The Plain (a photographic work-in-progress) (Melanie Friend, University of Sussex, UK)10.This is not a bomb – matériel culture and the arms trade (Jill Gibbon, Leeds Beckett University, UK)11.Dialogic spaces in the situation of conflict: stepping stones and sticking points (Liudmila Voronova, Södertörn University, Sweden)12.Perfect war and its contestations (Jolle Demmers, Lauren Gould, and David Snetselaar Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) Where War Inhabits: Reflections on Spaces of WarList of ContributorsIndex

This work is an important intervention, particularly in its illuminating of the vital contribution of artists, activists and other practitioners, to understandings of the interconnectedness and interdependence of war and media. The engaging and original case studies bring the subject matter alive. And the collection as a whole is a bold statement of how the conceptual lens of space makes us read warfare anew.