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Making Humanitarian Crises
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the international networks of solidarity. Questioning certain emotions assumed to underlie humanitarianism such as sympathy, empathy and compassion, they demonstrate how the experience of such emotions has shifted over time. Understanding images as emotional objects, contributors from a wide horizon of disciplines explore how their production, circulation and reception has been crucial to the perception of humanitarian crises in a long-term historical perspective.
Observing Conflict Escalation in World Society
How do conflicts escalate? This is one of the major questions in conflict research. To offer further answers, Richard Bösch follows a tripartite agenda: First, he develops a constructivist methodology for the study of conflict escalation embedded in a Luhmannian systems theoretical world society perspective. Bösch argues that conflicts can be observed as social systems and he looks at the process of conflict escalation by analysing communication. Second, this analysis offers two case studies: the Maidan protests in Ukraine 2013-2014 and Mali's crisis 2010-2012. Third, it gives insights on how systems theoretical research can be beneficial for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Comics and Migration
Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have in relation to migration. The volume examines both individual works of comic art and examples of practical applications of comics from across the world. Comics are well-suited to create understanding, highlight truthful information, and engender empathy in their audiences, but are also an art form that is preconditioned or even limited by its representational and practical conventions. Through analyses of various practices and representations, this book questions the uncritical belief in the capacity of co...
The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance
Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this “aesthetics of resistance” is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the “aesthetics of rule.” Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.
The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature
The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives, and experiences that have shaped the post-1989 world. The contributors examine a broad range of literary texts and critical approaches that cover the spectrum between voluntary and forced migration. In doing so, they reflect the shift in recent years from the author-centric study of migrant writing to a more inclusive conception of migration literature. The book contains se...
Knowledge and Expertise in International Interventions
Knowledge about violent conflict and international intervention is political. It involves power struggles over the objects of knowing (problematization/silencing), how they are known (epistemic practices), and what interpretations are taken into account in policymaking and implementation. This book unearths the politics, power and performances involved in the social construction of seemingly neutral concepts such as facts, truth and authenticity in knowing about violent conflict and international intervention. Contributors foreground problems of physical and social access to information, explore practices generating knowledge actors’ authority and legitimacy, and analyse struggles over com...
Abiayalan Pluriverses
Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often siloed disciplines. This edited collection brings together different disciplinary experiences and perspectives to this objective, weaving together researchers, artists, instructors, and authors who have found ways of bridging Indigenous and Hispanic studies through trans-Indigenous reading methods, intercultural dialogues, and reflections on translation and epistemology. Each chapter brings rich context that bears on some aspect of the Indigenous Americas and its crossroads with Hispanic studies, from Canada to Chile. Such a hemispheric and interdisciplinary approach offers innovative and significant means of challenging the coloniality of Hispanic studies.
Intersektionale Solidaritäten
Allyship, network, and community: these concepts have recently returned to the center of (queer) feminist, gender-specific, and intersectional theories and practices. The book's contributions address successes and challenges of queer-feminist, anti-racist, and intersectional alliances in their local, regional, and global interconnectedness, as well as examples of queer, non-heteronormative, inter*, and trans* collectives and solidarities.
Politische Bilder lesen
Politik und ihre Vermittlung erfolgen vermehrt über mediale, insbesondere bildliche Kommunikation. Politische Bilder erzählen und deuten (retrospektive) Geschichte(n) und beeinflussen Verhalten und Denkweisen, indem sie Machtverhältnisse und Gesellschaftsstrukturen erzeugen, spiegeln, legitimieren und verfestigen. Ein Verständnis für politische Vorgänge muss daher auch über ein Bilderverständnis erfolgen. Die Beiträger*innen präsentieren interdisziplinäre Ansätze an der Schnittstelle von Visueller Kultur, Kunstgeschichte, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft und Visueller Politik. Der Sammelband stellt somit einen Werkzeugkasten für bildanalytischen Methoden bereit, wobei der Unmittelbarkeit des visuellen Materials ein Nacheinander des Lesens gegenübergestellt wird.
Handbuch Religion in Konflikten und Friedensprozessen
Krieg, politische Gewalt und Frieden stellen zentrale Themen der internationalen Politik dar. Elementar geht es darum, ersteres zu verhindern und letzteres zu befördern. Vor diesem Hintergrund reflektiert das Handbuch die Rolle, die der Religion in Konflikten und Friedensprozessen zukommt. Mit seinen insgesamt fast 100 Beiträgen von Autorinnen und Autoren verschiedener Fachdisziplinen bietet es eine umfassende, systematische Übersicht zu diesem Themenfeld. Ausgehend von drei zentralen Kategorien – Recht, Gewalt und Frieden – erfolgt eine differenzierte Sicht auf verschiedene religiöse Traditionen. In die Betrachtung einbezogen wurden die abrahamitischen Religionen Judentum, Christentum und Islam, die dharmischen Religionen Hinduismus und Buddhismus sowie der Daoismus und Konfuzianismus als die vorherrschenden Orientierungen im sinischen Kulturkreis.
