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Visual Securitization - Alice Massari

Visual Securitization

Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
XV, 204 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-71145-0 (ISBN)
CHF 59,90 inkl. MwSt

This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations' visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes place in three different ways. First of all, even if marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of mainstream media and political accounts that have depicted refugees in terms of threats. Secondly, and more consistently, through a representation of Syrian displaced people that, despite the undeniable innovative aesthetic patterns focusing on dignity and empowerment, continue to reinforce a visual narrative around refugees in terms of victimhood and passivity. The reproduction of a securitized account takes also place through the dialectic between what is made visible in the pictures and what is not. At the same time the book identifies visual glimmers and minor displacements in the humanitarian discourse that have the potentiality to produce alternative discourses on refugees and displacement beyond the mainstream securitized ones. By showing how relief organizations' visual representation contributes to the securitization of the refugee issue, this book provides a great resource to students and academics in migration, visuality, humanitarianism and securitization, as well as social scientists and policy-makers.

Alice Massari works in the humanitarian sector since 2007 as researcher, aid worker and consultant. She holds an M.A. in International Relations and a Ph.D. in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy). She is currently working as humanitarian affairs officer for UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and has worked as expert on migration for the European Commission, and as aid worker for NGOs in Africa and the Middle East. Her research and writing focus on migration, humanitarianism, visuality and securitization.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Theory and Methodology of Visual Securitization.- Chapter 2. Humanitarianism, Securitization and Humanitarian Communication.- Chapter 3. A Visual Approach.- Part II: Humanitarian Representation and Migration Governance.- Chapter 4. Humanitarian Ngos and Global Governance: One, no One and One Hundred Thousand Humanitarian Ngos.- Chapter 5. Threatening - The Refugee as a Threat.- Chapter 6. Threatened, The Refugee as the Referent Object.- Chapter 7. The (In)Visibility of Migrants.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie IMISCOE Research Series
Zusatzinfo XV, 204 p. 13 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 343 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Graphentheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte Humanitarian communication • Humanitarianism and politics • Humanitarian NGOs and global governance • Humanitarian photography • Humanitarian representation of Syrian displacement • Migration Governance • NGOs visual communication • open access • Securitization of the refugee issue • Syrian people on the move' invisibility • Syrian people on the move’ invisibility • Threatening images • Transnational humanitarian NGOs • visual analysis • Visual glimmers • Visuality of Syrian displacement • Visual securitization • Visual social semiotics
ISBN-10 3-030-71145-5 / 3030711455
ISBN-13 978-3-030-71145-0 / 9783030711450
Zustand Neuware
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