<p>"Frank Möller's Visual Peace is a searching and original study. While much recent writing about photography and visual culture has focused on violence and conflict, and much of that work has relied on unexamined assumptions about spectatorship, Moller departs in two important and very fruitful ways. He subjects those assumptions to rigorous scrutiny, developing a compelling account of the viewer as 'participant witness,' and he shifts the axis of inquiry from the problem of violence to the prospects for peace. The result is an important and richly rewarding book."</p>
<p>- Mark Reinhardt, Williams College, USA</p>

<p>"Fluently moving across a wide-range of media, Visual Peace offers a lucid reappraisal of the current state of photojournalism. In a refreshingly inquisitive and jargon-free prose, Möller explores what it means to encounter images, and how we may gain and exert agency through them. Making a compelling case for the emerging field of Visual Peace Studies, among the book's many merits is that it engages us both as readers and as viewers, eliciting a space to experience and reflect upon the visual source material on our own. For at stake are not merely what we demand from images, but ultimately what we demand from ourselves."</p>
<p>- Henrik Gustafsson, University of Tromsø, Norway</p>

This book introduces a new research agenda for visual peace research, providing a political analysis of the relationship between visual representations and the politics of violence nationally and internationally. Using a range of genres, from photography to painting, it elaborates on how people can become agents of their own image.
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This book introduces a new research agenda for visual peace research, providing a political analysis of the relationship between visual representations and the politics of violence nationally and internationally. Using a range of genres, from photography to painting, it elaborates on how people can become agents of their own image.
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List of Figures PART I Introduction - Impressions: Stretching the Limits of Representations 1. Ambiguities, Approximations, Abstractions 2. The Participant Witness 3. Reflections on Photojournalism PART II 4. The Aftermath: Visions of Rwanda Portfolio 1: Rafiki Ubaldo, Temples of Memory 5. Visual Interventions in Rio de Janeiro's Culture of Violence 6. On Combatants and (Other) Victims Portfolio 2: Manuel Botelho, Aerogramas para 2010 7. WHY - ARE - WE - SO - INVOLVED? Unfinished Business Notes
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ISBN
9781137020390
Publisert
2013-10-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Frank Möller is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland.