Conflicted

Reviews / Votes

"Blacksin's clear interpretive voice plies journalism's unconscious, bringing to the fore the fear and trauma that is excised from reporting. Conflicted is a truly extraordinary book-written with aplomb, thoroughly researched, and thoughtful through and through. A landmark text in the literature on the mediation of war."
-Alex Fattal, author of Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia "We live in an age of war and depend for our war stories on the men and women who serve as our witnesses. War reporters are a legendary breed whose vital work has gone largely unexamined-until now. Conflicted is quite simply the most thorough, intelligent, and unflinching examination of conflict reporting ever attempted. Isaac Blacksin has been there and his provocative account made me nod in recognition, grin in appreciation, and shout in outrage. For those transfixed by war-and determined to learn how we really know what we think we know about it-this book is essential reading."
-Mark Danner, author of Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War and Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War "A thoughtful work that draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and psychoanalysis, Conflicted does not make for light reading. It does, however, provide a corrective to a practice like drone warfare and the seemingly easy acceptance of civilian casualties resulting from 'the Global War on Terrorism.' It also calls into question the 'bearing witness' of journalistic professions.... Recommended."-R. C. Cottrell, CHOICE "Conflicted offers a compelling critique of war journalism that challenges conventional narratives and advocates for a more detailed and critical approach to conflict reporting.... This book is essential for anyone interested in the intersection of media, war, and society."-Mahedi Hasan, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "Conflicted: Making News from Global War constitutes a major intervention for critical scholarship, in my view, and as such is essential reading not only for those concerned with war reportage but also for anyone endeavoring to rethink familiar presumptions about journalistic form, practice, and epistemology."-Stuart Allan, International Journal of Press/Politics