Drew Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Drew Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Drew |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tools for Decolonizing Photography
Jennifer Bajorek. Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 352 pp.; 30 color ills.; 102 b/w. $28.95 paperIn the past three decades, s
The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s New Era
Xi Jinping’s rise to power has heralded a new foreign policy that is more assertive and uncompromising toward China’s neighbors, the United States, and the rest of the world. This change presents challenges for the United States and Taiwan in particular which must be addressed with a sense of urgency due to Xi Jinping’s ambitious objectives and his firm grip on the levers of power which increase the likelihood that the Communist Party and governm…
Não há Nada" ("There is Nothing)
By 1983, Mozambique was seven years into independence from Portugal and at war on two fronts. Inside of Mozambique, populations confronted famine and long lines for government services. In response, the government launched Operação Produção, a program that relocated populations from overcrowded cities to the countryside in the northern province of Niassa. Two weeks into the program, state officials required people to present photo IDs. Not only d…
Social freedom and migration in a non-ideal world
In this paper, I identify two key contributions that David Ingram makes to the migration ethics literature, one methodological and one substantive. Ingram’s methodological contribution is to model how non-ideal theorizing can be done without abstracting away the complexities surrounding migration, including how the motivation to migrate is tied to existing institutional structures. He does this by beginning with the powerlessness and coercion exp…
The Diplomacy of Personal Photography
Untitled futures from history’s edge by José Cabral
The liberation movement Frelimo assumed control of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975. Frelimo brought to power its own photographs, and after 1975, it faced having to date and caption this image of independence. Frelimo also had grand image-making ambitions. In order to achieve these visions, Frelimo required the assistance of practitioners, like José Cabral, whose careers as photographers preceded but were not a creation of independence. In the c…
"Aperture Magazine. - "Platform Africa
A new generation of African photographers and photography curators are on the rise. From Nigeria to South Africa to Sudan to Morocco, new photographic training centers and exhibition venues are opening. Photographers based all over Africa are not unaffected by migration and displacement. In spite of this, many choose to prioritize their search for valuable photographic experiences over efforts to redress Western audiences’ impressions of the stat…
Image Matters
The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s New Era
Xi Jinping’s rise to power has heralded a new foreign policy that is more assertive and uncompromising toward China’s neighbors, the United States, and the rest of the world. This change presents challenges for the United States and Taiwan in particular which must be addressed with a sense of urgency due to Xi Jinping’s ambitious objectives and his firm grip on the levers of power which increase the likelihood that the Communist Party and governm…
Image Matters
The Diplomacy of Personal Photography
Untitled futures from history’s edge by José Cabral
The liberation movement Frelimo assumed control of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975. Frelimo brought to power its own photographs, and after 1975, it faced having to date and caption this image of independence. Frelimo also had grand image-making ambitions. In order to achieve these visions, Frelimo required the assistance of practitioners, like José Cabral, whose careers as photographers preceded but were not a creation of independence. In the c…
"Aperture Magazine. - "Platform Africa
A new generation of African photographers and photography curators are on the rise. From Nigeria to South Africa to Sudan to Morocco, new photographic training centers and exhibition venues are opening. Photographers based all over Africa are not unaffected by migration and displacement. In spite of this, many choose to prioritize their search for valuable photographic experiences over efforts to redress Western audiences’ impressions of the stat…
Social freedom and migration in a non-ideal world
In this paper, I identify two key contributions that David Ingram makes to the migration ethics literature, one methodological and one substantive. Ingram’s methodological contribution is to model how non-ideal theorizing can be done without abstracting away the complexities surrounding migration, including how the motivation to migrate is tied to existing institutional structures. He does this by beginning with the powerlessness and coercion exp…
The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s New Era
Xi Jinping’s rise to power has heralded a new foreign policy that is more assertive and uncompromising toward China’s neighbors, the United States, and the rest of the world. This change presents challenges for the United States and Taiwan in particular which must be addressed with a sense of urgency due to Xi Jinping’s ambitious objectives and his firm grip on the levers of power which increase the likelihood that the Communist Party and governm…
Não há Nada" ("There is Nothing)
By 1983, Mozambique was seven years into independence from Portugal and at war on two fronts. Inside of Mozambique, populations confronted famine and long lines for government services. In response, the government launched Operação Produção, a program that relocated populations from overcrowded cities to the countryside in the northern province of Niassa. Two weeks into the program, state officials required people to present photo IDs. Not only d…
Tools for Decolonizing Photography
Jennifer Bajorek. Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 352 pp.; 30 color ills.; 102 b/w. $28.95 paperIn the past three decades, s
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Photography (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works)