Visual Global Politics

Roland Bleiker is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, where he directs an interdisciplinary research program on Visual Politics. Over the past twenty years he has played a leading role in introducing aesthetics, visuality and emotions to the theory and practice of world politics.

"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 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"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"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"Through 50 chapters, covering diverse visual areas as well as a wide range of topics – from body, face and gender to protest, violence and war, Visual Global Politics speaks to an audience far beyond the field of IR, and lives up to its ambition of providing an “accessible, one-stop source for anyone interested in understanding the role that images play in today’s world”."- Inez v. Weitershausen, University of Zurich, Germany

• Mapping Visual Global Politics – Roland Bleiker 1. Body - Elizabeth Dauphinee 2. Borders – Shine Choi 3. Celebrity – Tanja Müller 4. Children - Katrina Lee-Koo 5. Climate - Kate Manzo 6. CNN Effect – Piers Robinson 7. Colonialism – Stephen Chan 8. Compassion Fatigue - Susan D. Moeller 9. Culture - William A. Callahan 10. Democracy – Mark Chou 11. Development – Kalpana Wilson 12. Digital Media – Sebastian Kaempf 13. Diplomacy – Costas M. Constantinou 14. Drones – Lauren Wilcox 15. Empathy – Nick Robinson 16. Face – Jenny Edkins 17. Famine – David Campbell 18. Fear – Cynthia Weber 19. Finance – James Brassett 20. Foreign Policy - Simon Philpott 21. Gender - Linda Åhäll 22. Geopolitics - Klaus Dodds 23. Humanitarianism - Lilie Chouliaraki 24. Human Rights - Sharon Sliwinski 25. Icons - Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites 26. Identity – Iver B. Neumann 27. Indigeneity - Sally Butler 28. Invisibility - Elspeth van Veeren 29. Memory – Nayanika Mookherjee 30. Militarisation – Laura Shepherd 31. Nation - Shirin M. Rai 32. Peace - Frank Möller 33. Perpetrators - Susie Linfield 34. Pictorial Turn – W.J.T. Mitchell 35. Protest - Nicole Doerr and Noa Milman 36. Rape – Ariella Azoulay 37. Refugees – Heather Johnson 38. Religion – Erin K. Wilson 39. Roma – Anca Pusca 40. Satellites - David Shim 41. Security – Lene Hansen 42. Sexual Violence - Marysia Zalevski 43. State – Brent Steele 44. Surveillance – Rune Saugmann Andersen 45. Territory – Jordan Branch 46. Time – Michael J. Shapiro 47. Trauma – Emma Hutchison 48. Travel – Debbie Lisle 49. Violence - Mark Reinhardt 50. War – James Der Derian 51. Witnessing – Alex Danchev