Landscapes of Distant Suffering
Interrogating Humanitarian Documentary Film Representation of "Harmful" Cultural Practices
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2173307 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Dorothy Atuhura (0000-0003-3077-2266, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda) |
| Ano | 2022 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 343-356 |
| Data de publicação | 2022-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2021.1984216 |
| OpenAlex | W3207643737 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 30 |
Although a wide range of media interventions have been at the forefront of global humanitarian campaigns aimed at eradicating cultural body modification practices categorized as “harmful” in global health and development policy, such practices continue to persist. In this article, I single out one such domain of intervention – transnational humanitarian documentaries – to interrogate how they visualize the spatial landscape within which women and girls participate in these practices and the implications of such visualization for interventions aimed at eradicating them. I articulate the landscape as: the body which is the ultimate inescapable place where women and girls must live, and as a geo-spatial location where that body lives. With illustrations from documentary films on one specific “harmful” practice, female genital mutilation, I show how the visual framing of the landscape engenders: a (mis)conception of the harmed body as only a dystopic place, thus foreclosing the utopic dreams that motivate persistence of mutilation as a path to inhabiting (an)other (heterotopic) place; a spatialized hierarchy of coercive paternalistic interventions with counter-productive effects that have not only compromised the efficacy of mediated eradication campaigns, but have, by extension, inadvertently contributed to the very persistence of those “harmful” practices
Aesthetics · Art · Framing (construction · Paternalism · Political science · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Security and Public Health · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Gender Studies · History · Law
Immediations
New Documentary
In the Flesh
Discourse Coalitions and the Institutionalization of Practice
Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture
Humanitarian Photography
Global humanitarianism and media culture
Distant Suffering
Imperial Eyes
“Under Western Eyes” Revisited
A horrific photo of a drowned Syrian child”
Archival science and postmodernism
Is there a global harm principle
The harm principle and global ethics
Save the child
Violation of Women’s Rights by Harmful Traditional Practices
Eroticism, Sensuality and ‘Women's Secrets’ Among the Baganda
The Discourse of Global Compassion
Rethinking media responsibility in the refugee ‘crisis’
Between Geography and Philosophy
Speaking For, Speaking About, Speaking With, or Speaking Alongside — An Anthropological and Documentary Dilemma
Media witnessing
A Hierarchy of Innocence
The temporality of the landscape
Putting Hierarchy in Its Place
The Body as (Another) Place
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,33 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |