How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war?
Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores humanitarianism and visual culture, community collaboration, collective memory, and imagined futures for creating and sustaining of civil societies. How things look and are perceived are not superficial issues; when it comes to war and conflict, photography is vitally relevant not only to documenting violence, but also to rebuilding peaceful societies.
The volume examines the intersecting issues of visual culture and peacebuilding, including: the genealogies of photography and conflict, decolonisation and the gaze, the significance of archival material, as well as recent peacebuilding initiatives. Exploring multiple forms of peace photography, the volume offers a range of voices from preeminent international scholars, as well as interviews with practicing photographers who have experience of working with post-conflict communities. As such, the book provides a timely investigation into the politics of representation, questioning how photographers might help foster social relationships, transform conflicts, and reconcile communities in the image-oriented cultures.

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Picturing Peace
Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding
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Picturing Peace
Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding
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- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Note on Contributors
- Foreword – J. P. Singh
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Peace Photographies: A Short Introduction
- Part 1 Genealogies
- 1 Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualizing Peace
- 2 Photography, Civilians and the Polemics of Peace: A Historical Perspective
- 3 Peace Photography and the Temporality of the Aftermath
- 4 Tragedy, Recognition and Photography: Affective Traditions of Witnessing
- Part 2 Whose Photography, Whose Peace?
- 5 Re-framing or De-centring the White Gaze of Peace? Peace Photography, Colonial Durability and Opacity in Dialogue
- 6 How (Not) to Picture Africa
- 7 Community and Participatory Photography as Peace Photography: Cases from Latin America
- 8 Journeys Towards Light
- Part 3 From the Archives: Protest Between Activism and Authoritarianism
- 9 Gender at the Peace Table: Photographic Visualizations of Peacemaking in the First World War
- 10 Peace and its Discontents: Right-Wing Visions of Peace in the Weimar Republic
- 11 Publishing for Peace: Newsworthiness, Authorship and Photobooks of the Vietnam Era
- 12 Countering Men’s Visions of Destruction with a Vision of Life: Greenham Common’s Ecofeminist Imaginaries of Peace
- Part 4 Aftermaths and Futures
- 13 Visualizing the Scars of War: Sexual Trauma, Temporality and Post-conflict Photography
- 14 The Images That Define Us: A Photo Elicitation Interview
- 15 Peace, Photography and the Everyday
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright
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