[eccr] Out now - Sarai Reader 4: Crisis/Media

>Dear Friends,
>
>We are happy to announce the print and web publication of Sarai Reader 04 
>: 'Crisis/Media' . Please find more details about the book below.
>
>We would welcome responses, reviews and critiques of the publication, and 
>discussions based on its contents. If you would like to write a review of 
>the book, and wish to obtain a review copy, do write to 
>(publications /at/ sarai.net), mentioning details of the publication where the 
>review will appear, and when it is likely to be published.
>
>The contents of the book may also be translated into other languages, and 
>published elsewhere. We, and the authors, would like to be informed.
>
>Looking forward to your responses
>
>The Editorial Collective, Sarai Reader 04
>
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>Sarai Reader 04 : Crisis/Media
>Published by the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing
>Societies, Delhi, 2004 [cc]
>
>Edited by - Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi, Awadhendra
>Sharan, Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram [Sarai-CSDS, Delhi] and Geert Lovink
>[Amsterdam]
>
>ISBN 81-901429-3-3
>Price:  Rs. 295, US $ 15, Euro 15
>496 pages
>
>---------------------------------------------
>'Crisis/Media', the fourth publication in the Sarai Reader series, 
>examines issues of global crises - (war, civil conflict, terrorism and 
>state terror, the deep instabilities of everyday life, technologies of 
>surveillance and political life, threats to the freedom of expression) - 
>and critically analyses the representation of these crises in the media. 
>Are the
>crises in the media also instances of crises of the media? Have current 
>forms of media practice lost the ability to articulate questions of 
>conflict and contention, other than in terms of crises ? Can media 
>practitioners evolve
>forms of practice that are not beholden to the idea of Crisis? The Sarai 
>brings together several distinguished critical voices,  as well as new, 
>emerging writers from all over the world (and especially from South Asia) 
>to attend to ideas, situations, contexts and dillemmas related to crises 
>and the media.
>
>Authors include : Arundhati Roy, Ranjit Hoskote, Taslima Nasrin, Geert 
>Lovink, Soenke Zehle, Nandita Haksar, Toby Miller, Martin Shaw, Ravi 
>Vasudevan, Shahid Amin, Ivo Skoric, Nancy Adajania, Raqs Media Collective, 
>Nitin Govil, Ranjani Mazumdar, Shohini Ghosh and others.
>
>For the complete table of contents, and the text of the introduction, see 
>below. The complete text of Crisis/Media, like the entire contents of 
>previous readers, is available for free browsing and download as pdf files at
>http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader4.html
>
>For Purchase, Distribution and Other Enquiries, mail to - 
>(publications /at/ sarai.net)
>
>or, contact -
>Publications
>Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
>29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054, India
>Tel : (+91) 11 2396 0040
>http://www.sarai.net
>E mail : (dak /at/ sarai.net)
>
>Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab
>
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>TABLE OF CONTENTS OF SARAI READER 04 : CRISIS/MEDIA
>
>Introduction I
>
>APPROACHING CRISIS
>Bearing Inconvenient Witness: Notes in Pro/Confessional Mode - Ranjit Hoskote
>Peace is War: The Collateral Damage of Breaking News - Arundhati Roy
>Financialization, Emotionalization and Other Ugly Concepts - Toby Miller
>Interventionist Media in Times of Crisis - Soenke Zehle
>Western Wars and Peace Activism: Social Movements in Global Mass-Mediated 
>Politics - Martin Shaw
>
>IMAGE DISTURBANCE
>Let us Become Children! Training, Simulations and Kids - Kristian Lukic
>What is to be Done? - Bhrigupati Singh
>Disreputable and Illegal Publics: Cinematic Allegories in Times of Crisis 
>- Ravi Vasudevan
>Protesting Capitalist Globalization on Video - Oliver Ressler
>Barcelona Pictures - Sasja Barentsen
> From One Crisis to the Next: The Fate of Political Art in India - Nancy 
> Adajania
>On Representing the Musalman - Shahid Amin
>Machines Made to Measure: On the Technologies of Identity and the 
>Manufacture of Difference - Raqs Media Collective
>
>CRISIS MEDIA - CASE STUDIES
>Media Representations of the Kargil War and the Gujarat Riots - Subarno 
>Chatterji
>Small Town News - Taran N. Khan
>'Out of the Box': Telelvisual Representations of North East  India - Daisy 
>Hasan
>Lost in Transit: Narratives and Myths of The Crash of Egypt Air Flight 990 
>in Egyptian and American Newspapers - Mahmoud Eid
>Of Nasty Pictures and 'Nice Guys': The Surreality of Online Hindutva - 
>Christiane Brosius
>Media Looking Beyond Crisis? The Urdu/Pakistani Press in New York after 
>9/11 - Rehan Ansari
>Tried by The Media: The S A R Geelani Trial - Nandita Haksar
>
>TRUTH/TESTIMONY
>'I Saw it on CNN so it Must be True...Wrong !' - Craig Etcheson
>'CNN Made Me Do (Not Do) It' : Assessing Media Influence on US 
>Interventions in Somalia and Rwanda - Lyn S. Graybill
>Left To Their Own Devices: The Impact of Informal Information and 
>Communication Networks on Security in the Tanzanian Refugee Camps - Amy West
>Readers vs. Viewers - Ivo Skoric
>Cracks in the Urban Frame: The Visual Politics of 9/11 - Ranjani Mazumdar
>Truth Telling, Gujarat and the Law - Arvind Narrain
>
>CAUTION: REPORTERS AT WORK
>Massacres and the Media: A Field Reporter Looks Back on Gujarat 2002 - 
>Darshan Desai
>The Everyday Life of a Srinagar Correspondent: Reporting from Kashmir - 
>Muzamil Jaleel
>A Reporter in Prison - Iftikhar Gilani
>Covering Kashmir: The Datelines of Despair - Basharat Peer
>Mumbai(Dongri)-Gujarat-Mumbai-Kashmir: Pages from my Diary - Zainab Bawa
>
>
>WAR CORRESPONDENCES: FIRST PERSON PLURAL
>Thoughts on Afghanistan in Five Parts - Meena Nanji
>On Experiencing Afghanistan - Daphne Meijer
>The Afghan eXplorer - The Computing Culture Group - MIT Media Lab
>Waiting: Entries from a Filmmaker's Diary in and around Tel Aviv - Anna 
>Faroqhi
>Last Email from the Gaza Strip - Rachel Corrie
>Guerrila News Network's Digital Documentaries: Interview with Stephen 
>Marshall - Geert Lovink
>Synchronicities: Baghdad/Delhi - Anand Vivek Taneja
>Portrait of a Day in Baghdad - Paul Chan
>Diary of a News Cameraman: Baghdad, July 2003 - Shakeb Ahmed
>Rescued Pages of War-Sense - Tarun Bhartiya
>
>DEEP INSTABILITIES
>Politics in the Picture: Witnessing Environmental Crises in the Media - 
>Sanjay Kak
>The Toxic Times of India: The Plastic Monster and a State of Emergency - 
>Ravi Agarwal
>Remembering SARS in Beijing: The Nationalist Appropriation of an Epidemic 
>- Sanjay Sharma
>Evictions - Projections: Watching Dharmendra in Suburban Lagos - Hansa 
>Thapliyal
>Mediated Guilt: The Illusion of Participation in Delhi's Social Welfare 
>Advertisements - Omar Kutty
>Journey through a Disaster: A Filmmaker's Account of the Gujarat 
>Earthquake, 2001 - Batul Mukhtiar
>
>CYBERMOHALLA STREET LOGS
>LOG OO1, 20th October, 2003 - Dakshinpuri Cybermohalla Media Lab
>
>INFORMATION = POLITICS
>P2P: Power to the People - Janko Röttgers
>War in the Age of Pirate Reproduction - Nitin Govil
>Floss and the 'Crisis': Foreigner in a Free Land? - Martin Hardie
>Introducing AIDC as a Tool for Data Surveillance
>- Beatriz Da Costa  + Jamieson Schulte + Brooke Singer
>Anagrams of Orderly Discorder (For the New Global Order) - Geoff Cox, 
>Joasia Krysa + Adrian Ward
>The Tools and Tactics of A Festival: Looking Back at N5M4 - David Garcia
>The Revenge of Low-tech: Autolabs, Telecentros and Tactical Media  in São 
>Paulo - Ricardo Rosas
>
>CONTESTING CENSORSHIP -
>Reasonable Restrictions and Unreasonable Speech - Lawrence Liang
>'The Whole Constitution Goes for Six': Legislative Privileges and the 
>Media - Sudhir Krishnaswamy
>Censorship Myths and Imagined Harms - Shohini Ghosh
>Homeless Everywhere: Writing in Exile - Taslima Nasreen
>
><ALT/OPTION>
>Manifesto Against Labour - Gruppe Krisis
>Digital Declaration - Infossil Corrective
>
>Notes on Contributors
>Acknowledgements
>
>--
>Monica Narula [Raqs Media Collective]
>Sarai:The New Media Initiative
>29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
>www.sarai.net
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