Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism

Notes

A diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, considers the interaction of politics and the visual in such topics as the political consequences of a photograph taken by an Israeli soldier in a Palestinian house in Ramallah; AIDS activism; images of social suffering in Iran; the “forensic architecture” of claims to truth; and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. Transcending disciplines, they trace a broader image complex whereby politics is brought to visibility through the mediation of specific cultural forms that mix the legal and the visual, the hermeneutic and the technical, the political and the aesthetic.

Editor	Meg McLagan and Yates McKee
Publisher	MIT Press
ISBN	978-1935408246
Reference	P2800
Date	2012
Type	Publication

Keywords

activism aesthetic Alessandro Petti Allan Sekula Amahl Bishara Andrew Herscher Ann Cvetkovich architecture Ariella Azoulay Barbara Abrash Benjamin J. Young Carrie Lambert-Beatty Charles Zerner citizenship colonialism consent documentary Eduardo Cadava Eyal Weizman Faye Ginsburg Fazal Sheikh Felicity D. Scott film holocaust Hugh Raffles Huma Yusuf human rights Iran Jaleh Mansoor Jean-Luc Godard Jonathan Crary Judith Butler Kendall Thomas Kirsten Johnson Leshu Torchin Liza Johnson mediation Meg McLagan Negar Azimi New York Pakistan Pamela Yates performative Peru photography photojournalism race Roger Hallas Sam Gregory Sandi Hilal Sweden Thomas Keenan Trevor Paglen witness Yates McKee Yugoslavia Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

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