Crisis, Media

Cultural Writing. Political Science. 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.