Reporting beyond the pale: UK news discourse on drones in Pakistan

This article on drone strikes in Pakistan offers a distinctive empirical case study for critical scholarship of counterterrorism. By asking how cosmopolitanism has developed through UK news discourse, it also provides a constructivist contribution to the literature on drones. I argue that UK news di...

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Published in:Critical studies on terrorism 2017-01, Vol.10 (1), p.138-161
Main Author: Pope, Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic staff
Accountability
Activism
Case studies
Comprehension
Constructivism
Cosmopolitanism
Counterterrorism
critical discourse analysis
Discourse
Discourse analysis
Drones
Mass media
News media
Otherness
Pakistan
Risk
Scholarship
Scrutiny
Telecommunications policy
Terrorism
UK news media
United Kingdom
Unmanned aerial vehicles
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Summary:This article on drone strikes in Pakistan offers a distinctive empirical case study for critical scholarship of counterterrorism. By asking how cosmopolitanism has developed through UK news discourse, it also provides a constructivist contribution to the literature on drones. I argue that UK news discourse is not cosmopolitan because it focuses on risk and places the Other beyond comprehension. US-UK networked counterterrorism operations have complicated accountability, and while a drive for certainty promoted more scrutiny of policy, news media outlets, academics and activists turned to statistical and visual genres of communication that have inhibited understanding of the Other.
ISSN:1753-9153
1753-9161
DOI:10.1080/17539153.2016.1178486