[Commlist] New Book: war reporting and justice

New Book: WAR REPORTING AND JUSTICE by Slavko Gajevic is available now 
from Cambridge Scholars.

 From the publisher:

“This book explores how journalists understand and interpret justice in 
their coverage of wars. Its deep analysis of war reporting offers a new 
understanding of modern, multicultural societies in times of conflict. 
In particular, it explores how the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s gave 
birth to the modern notion of the transnational community.

The text provides new theoretical concepts in order to better understand 
media work during times of war, and offers new definitions of conflict 
and the transnational community as an authority of normative criteria 
for justice. Furthermore, it details a new model for the analysis of 
media texts with step-by-step guidelines and examples that will be very 
useful for media educators, journalism teachers, and students of 
journalism. The book’s novel approach to understanding justice during a 
times of conflict will also be valuable for journalists who cover armed 
conflicts.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. JUSTICE AND CONFLICT: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE

·A discourse of justice from topic to social contract

·Journalistic practices and the formal concept of justice

2. WAR REPORTING AND THE QUESTION OF JUSTICE

·Justice, sovereignty and the transnational community

·Conflict as a transition from Communist to post-Communist societies

·Conflict as a dominant force of news values

·From conflict in news text to a state-citizen dialogue

·The journalistic field and conflict as a de-historicized news event

·War reporting and journalistic struggles for autonomy

·Reconsidering the notion of objectivity through war reporting

3. COLLECTIVE MEMORIES IN WAR REPORTING: A CASE OF THE YUGOSLAV WARS

·News media and the formation of collective memories

·Changing memories of armed conflicts and fixed “memory templates”

·The Holocaust, war reporting and the formal concept of justice

·The Balkan discourse and the construction of a “frozen identity”

·Yugoslavia in contexts of globalisation and the nation-state

·News discourses as standardization of social processes

·Transnational media and an emerging transnational public sphere

4. HOW TO ANALYSE WAR REPORTING: A CASE OF THE YUGOSLAV WARS

·From contested ideas of Yugoslavism to wars as memorized media events

·Yugoslavia’s nations, geopolitics and wars over borders

·The beginning of the Yugoslav wars and the return of history

·A stable international order vs. the issue of justice: echoes in the media

·Dynamics of the Yugoslav conflicts and changes in politics and discourse

·The Yugoslav wars and the three crucial transnational media events

·The 1992 photographs of the “Serb-run concentration camps” in Bosnia

·The beginning of the US-led NATO war against Serbia in 1999

·The declaration of the independence of Kosovo in 2008

5. SAMPLE AND THE METHOD OF TEXTUAL ANALYSIS APPLIED IN THIS RESEARCH

·Critical discourse analysis and editorials as a manifestation of social 
action

·Newspapers as representatives of different media systems

·/The New York Times/ and /Politika/: backgrounds and perspectives

·Editorials in American and Serbian journalistic practices

·The model of newspaper editorials analysis applied in the study

·The procedure of newspaper editorials analysis applied in the study

·Textual analysis, visual memory and the importance of consistent 
methodology

6. THE NOTION OF JUSTICE AND THE SEMANTIC FIELDS OF THE HOLOCAUST, JUST 
WAR AND SOVEREIGNTY

·Justice in /The New York Times/ in 1992: The return of the Holocaust

·Justice in /Politika/ in 1992: the Holocaust as a news story fabricated 
to serve a global militarism

·Justice in /The New York Times/ in 1999: the return of the just war

·Justice in /Politika/’s editorials in 1999: just war as an excuse for 
colonization

·Justice in The /New York Times/ in 2008: human rights vs. sovereignty

·Justice in /Politika/ in 2008: human rights and globalization as a 
coverup for Western hegemony

7. WAR REPORTING: LEGACIES OF THE YUGOSLAV WARS

The book’s Intro & First Chapter are available on the publisher’s 
website: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/war-reporting-and-justice

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