Visual Global Politics
About this book
We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments and videogames, frame how politics is perceived and enacted. Drones, satellites and surveillance cameras watch us around the clock and deliver images that are then put to political use. Add to this that new technologies now allow for a rapid distribution of still and moving images around the world. Digital media platforms, such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, play an important role across the political spectrum, from terrorist recruitment drives to social justice campaigns.
This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics. Written by leading experts in numerous scholarly disciplines and presented in accessible and engaging language, Visual Global Politics is a one-stop source for students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the crucial and persistent role of images in today's world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Mapping visual global politics
- 1 Body
- 2 Borders
- 3 Celebrity
- 4 Children
- 5 Climate
- 6 CNN effect
- 7 Colonialism
- 8 Compassion fatigue
- 9 Culture
- 10 Democracy
- 11 Development
- 12 Digital media
- 13 Diplomacy
- 14 Drones
- 15 Empathy
- 16 Face
- 17 Famine
- 18 Fear
- 19 Finance
- 20 Foreign policy
- 21 Gender
- 22 Geopolitics
- 23 Humanitarianism
- 24 Human rights
- 25 Icons
- 26 Identity
- 27 Indigeneity
- 28 Invisibility
- 29 Memory
- 30 Militarisation
- 31 Nation
- 32 Peace
- 33 Perpetrators
- 34 Pictorial turn
- 35 Protest
- 36 Rape
- 37 Refugees
- 38 Religion
- 39 Roma
- 40 Satellites
- 41 Security
- 42 Sexual violence
- 43 State
- 44 Surveillance
- 45 Territory
- 46 Time
- 47 Trauma
- 48 Travel
- 49 Violence
- 50 War
- 51 Witnessing
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- List of illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index
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