Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
Note on Contributors
Foreword, JP Singh (George Mason University, USA)
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Tom Allbeson (University of Cardiff, UK) and Pippa Oldfield (Teesside University, UK)
Part One: Genealogies
1. Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualizing Peace, Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison (University of Queensland, Australia)
2. Photography, Civilians and the Polemics of Peace: A Historical Perspective, Heide Fehrenbach (Northern Illinois University, USA)
3. Peace Photography and the Temporality of the Aftermath, Frank Möller (University of Tampere, Finland)
4. Tragedy, Recognition and Photography: Affective Traditions of Witnessing, Jennifer Wallace (University of Cambridge, UK)
Part Two: Whose Photography, Whose Peace?
5. Re-framing or De-centering the White Gaze of Peace? Peace Photography, Colonial Durability and Opacity in Dialogue, Astrid Jamar (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and François Makanga (Independent, Belgium)
6. How (Not) to Picture Africa, Martina Bacigalupo in conversation with Sharon Sliwinski
7. Community and Participatory Photography as Peace Photography: Cases from Latin America, Tiffany Fairey (King's College London, UK)
8. Journeys Towards Light, Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Pippa Oldfield
Part Three: From the Archives: Protest Between Activism & Authoritarianism
9. Gender at the Peace Table: Photographic Visualizations of Peacemaking in the First World War, Pippa Oldfield (Teesside University, UK)
10. Peace and its Discontents: Right-Wing Visions of Peace in the Weimar Republic, J.J. Long (Durham University, UK)
11. Publishing for Peace: Newsworthiness, Authorship and Photobooks of the Vietnam Era, Tom Allbeson (Cardiff University, UK)
12. Countering Men's Visions of Destruction with a Vision of Life: Greenham Common's Ecofeminist Imaginaries of Peace, Mathilde Bertrand (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)
Part Four: Aftermaths and Futures
13. Visualizing the Scars of War: Sexual Trauma, Temporality and Post-conflict Photography, Wendy Kozol (Oberlin College, US)
14. The Images That Define Us: A Photo Elicitation Interview, Jacques Nkinzingabo in conversation with Tiffany Fairey
15. Photography, Peace and the Everyday, Paul Lowe (University of the Arts London, UK)
Bibliography
Index
