Images and International Security
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Images and International Security. / Hansen, Lene.
The Oxford Handbook of International Security. red. / Alexandra Gheciu; William C. Wohlforth. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. s. 593-606 (Oxford Handbooks).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning
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T1 - Images and International Security
AU - Hansen, Lene
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Photographs, cartoons, video—in sum, visual representations—are crucial to how security problems become known and debated. Yet, images have only recently entered security studies as a particular topic in need of research. This chapter shows how technological innovations, major events, and theory development within the larger fields of humanities and the social sciences explain why and how images have entered security studies. Images are important to security politics because they are capable of evoking emotions and they travel across national and linguistic boundaries in ways that words cannot. Striking images have supported the calls for expanding the concept of security to include non-military threats, such as for example HIV/AIDS or famine. But images may also cause conflicts when they are seen as insulting to core values and identities. The study of images is so complex that a pluralistic methodology and multiple epistemologies are warranted.
AB - Photographs, cartoons, video—in sum, visual representations—are crucial to how security problems become known and debated. Yet, images have only recently entered security studies as a particular topic in need of research. This chapter shows how technological innovations, major events, and theory development within the larger fields of humanities and the social sciences explain why and how images have entered security studies. Images are important to security politics because they are capable of evoking emotions and they travel across national and linguistic boundaries in ways that words cannot. Striking images have supported the calls for expanding the concept of security to include non-military threats, such as for example HIV/AIDS or famine. But images may also cause conflicts when they are seen as insulting to core values and identities. The study of images is so complex that a pluralistic methodology and multiple epistemologies are warranted.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - aesthetic politics
KW - cartoons
KW - concepts of security
KW - emotions
KW - epistemology
KW - methodology
KW - photographs
KW - technology
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.39
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.39
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780198777854
SN - 9780191823329
T3 - Oxford Handbooks
SP - 593
EP - 606
BT - The Oxford Handbook of International Security
A2 - Gheciu, Alexandra
A2 - Wohlforth, William C.
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -
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