Journalistic Discourses of the Mumbai Attacks

What is it about?

Looking at Indian newspaper coverage of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, this article shows how a Western-centric and overtly militarized logic created the terms by which the attack could be understood. This logic also pervaded responses to the attack, casting in terms that were familiar to American and Western audiences. Indian-centric narratives emerge in the coverage, actively resisting the urge to case the attacks in strictly American terms.

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Why is it important?

Terrorism and violence is one of the key problematics of our time and by looking at how it is made sensible through popular culture, we can begin to imagine new ways of wrestling with that violence and critiquing it.