Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with international war reporters, this article interrogates dominant meanings for warfare and for the civilian death that results. It takes as a case study the 2016 to 2017 battle for Mosul, Iraq. Lauded reportage from Mosul revealed official underestimates of US-caused civilian harm in anti-Islamic State operations, exemplifying journalism's ability to “speak truth to power.” Yet in questioning official death tallies, journalists failed to challenge the rationale offered for this death: an accidental exception or necessary excess to justified violence. The article demonstrates how a humanitarian turn in war reportage transforms war from the effects of policy on populations to the effects of violence on the innocent. Emphasizing the morality of militarism while mystifying its political logic, news coverage of civilian death, widely presumed to function as a critique of mass violence, serves to sanction official rationales for global war.

Isaac Blacksin

Public Culture

Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU.    A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks.    Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.

Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for discussing the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly specific and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and emerging, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.

《Public Culture》是一本经过同行评审的跨学科文化研究期刊，每年出版三期——分别在一月、五月和九月。该期刊由纽约大学媒体、文化与传播系主办。作为四次CELJ奖的获奖者，《Public Culture》在过去三十多年中一直致力于发布具有领域定义性的民族志研究和全球化文化政治分析。期刊为讨论文化、社会和政治差异作为公共现象出现的场所和时机提供了一个论坛，这些现象体现在从特定的地方性事件到全球广告、消费和信息网络等各个方面。来自人文学科和社会科学领域的艺术家、活动家和学者，无论是知名的还是年轻的，均在《Public Culture》的页面上展示他们一些最具创新性和激动人心的作品。

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