Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence
Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2236669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam Deprez (0009-0002-0414-7395, Griffith University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ips/olad016 |
| OpenAlex | W4386035428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 28 |
The Israeli military's occupation of Palestinian territory relies heavily on its ability to shape the visual environment and set the terms of how Palestinians may see and be seen. However, the relationship between violent occupation and violent visualities has yet to be fully theorized. This article gathers several conceptual strands-biopolitics, visual biopolitics, and necropolitics-to theorize what I term 'visual necropolitics.' Visual necropolitics is proffered as an analytical tool that furthers our understanding of the violent visual regulations that enable and sustain the conditions for the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and the subjugation of the Palestinian people. To illustrate this, three distinct but related forms of visual violence will be analyzed: the deliberate infliction of ocular trauma through targeting of the eyes, the strategy of maiming in order to prevent telegenic death, and the imposition of visual regulations to govern the death of captured bodies. This theorization allows us to move beyond considering the politics of sight, vision, and representation only as an artifact of the colonial power relations that govern life and death in Palestine, towards understanding how visual violence is a constitutive dimension of occupation. Not only does colonial occupation use visual violence, but it cannot be sustained without it
Biopower · Colonialism · Criminology · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Visual culture · Anthropology · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Photography and Visual Culture
Invited to Witness
Forensic Architecture
The Cruel Radiance
The Polyvalent Politics of Martyr Commemorations in the Palestinian Intifada
Journalism and Witnessing
How Do We Look
Necropenology
Paying Attention to Dead Bodies
Necropolitical Debris
Unplug and Play
Framing Visual Politics
Movement and the ordering of freedom
Scopic regimes and the visual turn in International Relations
Dismembering the dead
The Right to Maim
Biopolitics and checkpoint 300 in occupied Palestine
Israeli Biopolitics
Coloniality and Necropolitics in the Age of Covid-19
Necropolitics
Colonial management of death
Familiar Pixels
Apprehending the 'Telegenic Dead
Occupation, Sight, Landscape
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |