What violent conflict tells us about media and place-making (and vice versa): Ethnographic observations from a revolutionary uprising

TY - CHAP

T1 - What violent conflict tells us about media and place-making (and vice versa)

T2 - Ethnographic observations from a revolutionary uprising

AU - Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The increasing mobility of media has in recent years led some scholars to argue for a decline in the significance of place in relation to media. This chapter argues for the importance of understanding media as vitally emplaced in the phenomenological world and it uses violent conflict to develop this point. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with information activists and journalists during the Egyptian uprising, this chapter contests understandings of media as doubling or making place insignificant. Rather, it develops an understanding of media as place-making to allow for an analysis of the entanglements of people and things related to media, showing how media are emplaced in the phenomenological world in the same way that violence is. Doing so, the chapter sheds light on how media can contribute to opening up places to other places and thus influence movements of people and things in conflict.

AB - The increasing mobility of media has in recent years led some scholars to argue for a decline in the significance of place in relation to media. This chapter argues for the importance of understanding media as vitally emplaced in the phenomenological world and it uses violent conflict to develop this point. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with information activists and journalists during the Egyptian uprising, this chapter contests understandings of media as doubling or making place insignificant. Rather, it develops an understanding of media as place-making to allow for an analysis of the entanglements of people and things related to media, showing how media are emplaced in the phenomenological world in the same way that violence is. Doing so, the chapter sheds light on how media can contribute to opening up places to other places and thus influence movements of people and things in conflict.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Conflict

KW - Egypt

KW - Entanglements

KW - Materiality

KW - Media

KW - Place

KW - Place-making

M3 - Book chapter

VL - Berghahn Series Anthropology of Media

T3 - Anthropology of Media

BT - Theorising Media and Conflict

A2 - Postill, John

A2 - Budka , Philipp

A2 - Bräuchler , Birgit

PB - Berghahn Books

ER -