The Power of Images in Global Politics
Images surround everything we do. This omnipresence of images is political and has changed fundamentally how we live and interact in today’s world.
Analysing but Not Seeing: What’s Missing When We Forget Images in IR
Security is not solely constructed discursively but also visually. Dominant securitization theory ignores the latter, leaving it somewhat decontextualized.
Code Red: Colouring the International
Security studies needs to go beyond its chromophobia (its avoidance of colour) and see how colour-use operates in the enactment and (re-)appropriation of security.
From Absence to Absence: The Visual Culture of The ‘War on Terror’
Throughout the last decade, news photography has re-presented the ‘war on terror’, in the form of military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, in ways consistent with military strategy. Much photojournalism exists within and reproduces an ‘eternal present’, obscuring the frames that narrow its perspective, rendering casualties and context as absent.
