“This book is a landmark step in addressing the role of visuality in global politics. Rich, diverse, and innovative, it represents a vital contribution to understanding some of the most pressing analytic and political questions of our time.” Michael C Williams, University of Ottawa, Canada “This sparkling collection of essays brings the visual aspects of global politics to the fore, challenging the traditional scholarly focus on texts. It illuminates the power of images in shaping the way we interpret and respond to global phenomena. The book will quickly become an indispensable resource for all scholars of international politics and law.” Hilary Charlesworth, Melbourne Law School, Australia “This is a wonderful anthology. Typically these alphabetical collections are best for reference, but I was surprised to find myself reading through from one to the next. Many of the entries speak to each another, and together they paint the best available picture of images as ‘political forces.’ Visual culture studies has often made the promise of being political in a way that art history hasn’t, but this is the only book that puts the politics first. It will be a useful reference for the current political moment, in which each of us has the responsibility to witness, interpret, and also produce political images.” James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA “We live in an age of the visual turn in politics, one in which images work upon several registers of life. But the professoriate still mostly responds to politics through the hegemony of the textual. Visual Global Politics takes several huge steps to redress this imbalance. Consisting of multiple image-rich essays, it engages bodies, borders, torture, climate, democracy, security and several other domains by addressing their image/word intertexts. A timely and indispensable volume.” William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, USA Visual Global Politics 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 cam - paigns. 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. Roland Bleiker is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, where he directs an interdisciplinary research program on Visual Politics. His work has introduced aesthetics, visuality and emotions to the study of world politics. Interventions Edited by: Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University, UK and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick, UK The series provides a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary work that engages with alternative critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic and cultural approaches to international relations and global politics. In our first 5 years we have published 60 volumes. We aim to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics. We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: just contact us for advice or proposal guidelines. Proposals should be submitted directly to the Series Editors: • Jenny Edkins ([email protected]) and • Nick Vaughan-Williams ([email protected]). ‘As Michel Foucault has famously stated, “knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting”. In this spirit The Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR’s traditional geopolitical imaginary.’ Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA For a full list of available titles please visit www.routledge.com/series/INT Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations Governmentalities of Security, Protection, and Police Marc G. Doucet Politics of Visibility and Belonging From Russia’s “Homosexual Propaganda” Laws to the Ukraine War Emil Edenborg Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa The Case of NATO in Libya Susannah O’Sullivan The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden Visual Global Politics Edited by Roland Bleiker Visual Global Politics Edited by Roland Bleiker First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Roland Bleiker; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Roland Bleiker to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Names: Bleiker, Roland, editor. Title: Visual global politics / edited by Roland Bleiker. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Interventions | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017042159| ISBN 9780415726061 (hbk) | ISBN 9780415726078 (pbk) | ISBN 9781315856506 (ebk) Subjects: LCSH: Mass media and international relations. | Visual communication—Political aspects. | Digital media—Political aspects. | Social media—Political aspects. Classification: LCC P96.I53 V57 2018 | DDC 320.01/4—dc222 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042159 ISBN: 978-0-415-72606-1 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-72607-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-85650-6 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK Every effort has been made to contact copyright-holders. Please advise the publisher of any errors or omissions, and these will be corrected in subsequent editions. In memory of Alex Danchev Contents Mapping visual global politics 1 ROLAND BLEIKER 1 Body 30 ELIZABETH DAUPHINEE 2 Borders 35 SHINE CHOI 3 Celebrity 42 TANJA R. MÜLLER 4 Children 48 KATRINA LEE-KOO 5 Climate 55 KATE MANZO 6 CNN effect 62 PIERS ROBINSON 7 Colonialism 68 STEPHEN CHAN 8 Compassion fatigue 75 SUSAN D. MOELLER 9 Culture 81 WILLIAM A. CALLAHAN 10 Democracy 88 MARK CHOU 11 Development 94 KALPANA WILSON x Contents 12 Digital media 99 SEBASTIAN KAEMPF 13 Diplomacy 104 COSTAS M. CONSTANTINOU 14 Drones 111 LAUREN WILCOX 15 Empathy 115 NICK ROBINSON 16 Face 121 JENNY EDKINS 17 Famine 127 DAVID CAMPBELL 18 Fear 134 CYNTHIA WEBER 19 Finance 139 JAMES BRASSETT 20 Foreign policy 144 SIMON PHILPOTT 21 Gender 150 LINDA ÅHÄLL 22 Geopolitics 157 KLAUS DODDS 23 Humanitarianism 163 LILIE CHOULIARAKI 24 Human rights 169 SHARON SLIWINSKI 25 Icons 176 ROBERT HARIMAN AND JOHN LOUIS LUCAITES 26 Identity 182 IVER B. NEUMANN 27 Indigeneity 189 SALLY BUTLER 28 Invisibility 196 ELSPETH VAN VEEREN Contents xi 29 Memory 201 NAYANIKA MOOKHERJEE 30 Militarisation 209 LAURA J. SHEPHERD 31 Nation 215 SHIRIN M. RAI 32 Peace 220 FRANK MÖLLER 33 Perpetrators 224 SUSIE LINFIELD 34 Pictorial turn 230 W.J.T. MITCHELL 35 Protest 233 NICOLE DOERR AND NOA MILMAN 36 Rape 237 ARIELLA AZOULAY 37 Refugees 244 HEATHER L. JOHNSON 38 Religion 251 ERIN K. WILSON 39 Roma 258 ANCA M. PUSCA 40 Satellites 265 DAVID SHIM 41 Security 272 LENE HANSEN 42 Sexual violence 279 MARYSIA ZALEWSKI 43 State 284 BRENT J. STEELE 44 Surveillance 288 RUNE SAUGMANN 45 Territory 294 JORDAN BRANCH xii Contents 46 Time 300 MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO 47 Trauma 306 EMMA HUTCHISON 48 Travel 314 DEBBIE LISLE 49 Violence 321 MARK REINHARDT 50 War 328 JAMES DER DERIAN 51 Witnessing 332 ALEX DANCHEV Acknowledgements 339 Contributors 345 List of illustrations 353 Bibliography 356 Index 391 Mapping visual