Reporting beyond the pale: UK news discourse on drones in Pakistan |
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| Authors: | Mark Pope |
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| Institution: | Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Constructivism drones terrorism critical discourse analysis cosmopolitanism Pakistan UK news media |
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