Replete With Danger’

As the military situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, an investigation of recent mainstream news media coverage reveals the extent to which British travel writing continues to inform and influence reporting on ‘Afghan conflicts. Despite the interest of researchers in travel writing's capacity for experimentation and reflexivity, in 2001 journalists began to enlist the help of travel narratives in (re)familiarising British news audiences with Afghanistan. Since the turn of the twentieth century it has been the well-established habit of travellers to superimpose nineteenth-century contexts of traumatic Afghan-British encounter onto contemporary Afghan scenes and settings. This essay examines the way in which travel narratives which are heavily dependent on the work of Rudyard Kipling have helped set the news agenda. Above all, it considers the consequences of this reliance

Afghan · Art · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · Philippine History and Culture · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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• American Journalism On, Before, and After September 11

  James W Carey•Journalism after September 11•2003

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• In the Realm of the Diamond Queen

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• The Unending Revolt’

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• Risk-transfer Militarism, Small Massacres and the Historic Legitimacy of War

  Open Access•Martin Shaw•International Relations•2002

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