[ecrea] call for book chapters - Reporting from the Wars 1850 – 2015‬‬

Call for Book Chapters


‪Reporting from the Wars 1850 – 2015‬‬


Editors: Barry Turner, Geoff Adams and Sanem Şahin

‪The book will be a compilation of historical and contemporary stories 
of the war correspondent and battlefield photographer from the earliest 
days of modern war reporting to the present. It will seek to determine 
the changes in style, method and practice of the work of the war 
correspondent and examine the changes in attitudes to, and how the 
public view war from the high point of imperialism to the present day 
jihad. ‬‬

‪By mixing historical analysis with contributions from modern war 
reporters it will analyse such subjects as the role of propaganda in 
winning over the public to support wars of aggression, the portrayal of 
war as entertainment, the use of technology in war reporting and the 
lives, and sadly often the deaths of those who take on this most 
dangerous and disturbing vocation. It is proposed to assemble 15 
chapters written by war correspondents and academics to produce an 
edited volume suitable for academic study and public interest 
simultaneously. ‬‬

‪The target audience therefore will not simply be for the academic or 
specialist reader but will hopefully appeal to all with an interest in 
the subject of war reporting and history. ‬The book will explore how 
emerging technologies, publicity and propaganda, the perceptions of 
morality and the various relationships between the press, military and 
governments have evolved since the Crimean War to the present day – and 
how this has affected war and conflict reporting.‬

We propose three sections to this edited book, which will cover the 
following topics:
The origin of the war correspondent
Starting with the Crimean War, the first major war covered by 
photographers this can look at how modern technology made war reporting 
a ‘news’ item in real time.  Before the introduction of this technology 
ware reporting was more closely related to story telling weeks after the 
event sometimes supported by artists stylized impressions of the 
fighting.  This chapter can look at the difference to war reporting this 
technology made on both the reporters themselves and the perceptions of 
their audience.  Consideration under this theme would be given to the 
effect of visual technology from the earliest portable cameras to the 
visual imagery of the digital age.

War reporting as a means to victory
For a nation to fight a war it has to be popular.  Even dictatorships 
and authoritarian regimes need public support in order to prosecute a 
war to success.  History is littered with unpopular wars unsupported by 
the population with almost inevitable defeat at the hand of the enemy or 
the people at home.  This chapter can look at the methods used from the 
early days of war reporting to the present to examine how publicity and 
propaganda can convince the public that the war is a ‘just war’.

War reporting and the morality of war
These chapters will look at the way that the morality of war is 
expressed in press reporting from the crudest propaganda to the subtlest 
manipulation and spin.  The relationship of reporters to the military 
and government would be examined as would the concepts of a righteous or 
war and the ‘war on terror.  Themes would include the portrayal of 
coalitions of the willing and the reporting of Jihad.

Please send 250 word abstracts to Sanem Şahin ((ssahin /at/ lincoln.ac.uk)) no 
later than 30 November 2015.




        Dr. Sanem Sahin | Lecturer
College of Arts
University of Lincoln. Brayford Pool, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. LN6 7TS
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