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

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.

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

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50701 Cultural and economic geography
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Full Text
• 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
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

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