Cayli, E;
(2016)
Bear Witness: Embedded Coverage of Turkey’s Urban Warfare and the Demarcation of Sovereignty against a Dynamic Exterior.
Theory and Event
, 19
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Abstract
This essay discusses Turkey’s state television TRT’s factual series Bear Witness (launched in November 2015 and ongoing), which covers the most recent wave of operations by counter-terrorism units in urban centers across the country’s southeast. The series is marked by a bold claim to truthful and impartial coverage, which it seeks to undergird by way of a stylistic and methodological combination of the genres of true crime, citizen journalism, and military surveillance. Bear Witness provides insight into how the state might reconceive sovereignty through televised propaganda in an age when both warfare and its reporting have become ubiquitous and instantaneous: against a spatial and temporal exterior presented as having dynamic boundaries that constantly threaten to engulf the interior across which the state seeks to hold sway.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bear Witness: Embedded Coverage of Turkey’s Urban Warfare and the Demarcation of Sovereignty against a Dynamic Exterior |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/610225 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Embedded war reporting, true crime, counter-terrorism, citizen journalism, drone videography, architecture |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042765 |
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