The problem of different post-colonial spatial contexts in
television news about distant wartime suffering

J 2019

The problem of different post-colonial spatial contexts in television news about distant wartime suffering

DOBOŠ, Pavel

Basic information

Original name

The problem of different post-colonial spatial contexts in television news about distant wartime suffering

Authors

DOBOŠ, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

International Communication Gazette, London, SAGE Publications, 2019, 1748-0485

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50701 Cultural and economic geography

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.877

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/19:00109017

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048518822607

UT WoS

000486198300008

Keywords (in Czech)

Česká televize; vzdálené utrpení; imaginativní geografie; Mali; mediace; orientalismus; Palestina; Sýrie; televizní zpravodajství; válka

Keywords in English

Czech Television; distant suffering; imaginative geographies; Mali; mediation; Orientalism; Palestine; Syria; television news; war

Abstract

V originále

The point of departure of the article is distant suffering studies. The article tries to supplement them by theses from post-colonial and critical spatial theories that were elaborated in post-colonial geography. Through post-colonial imaginative geographies, the spatial context shapes Western television performances of wartime suffering. This is demonstrated by empirical examples of mediation of wars in Mali, Palestine and Syria, from the news of Czech Television. In the Malian case, the space is homogenized as a violent African space, where suffering is moral. In the Palestinian case, the space is divided into rational Israeli and barbaric Palestinian space, where Palestinians’ suffering is neglected, if Israel stays evidently rational. In the Syrian case, the suffering is accented, however, only if Syrians seem to want to de-Orientalize themselves. These cases demonstrate that there is always a need to be spatially sensitive in respect to mediated distant suffering from post-colonial regions.

Links

MUNI/A/1576/2018, interní kód MU

Name: Komplexní výzkum geografického prostředí planety Země

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

DOBOŠ, Pavel. The problem of different post-colonial spatial contexts in television news about distant wartime suffering. International Communication Gazette. London: SAGE Publications, 2019, vol. 81, 6-8, p. 644-663. ISSN 1748-0485. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048518822607.

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DOBOŠ, Pavel. The problem of different post-colonial spatial contexts in television news about distant wartime suffering. \textit{International Communication Gazette}. London: SAGE Publications, 2019, vol.~81, 6-8, p.~644-663. ISSN~1748-0485. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048518822607.

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