Shooting Gaza
Israel'S Visual War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12979129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Jones (0000-0002-3603-3467, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-56 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/194277861100400104 |
| OpenAlex | W2466942750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
In this paper I show how the imaging and representation of war is becoming ever more central to its conduct: warfare is being fought through what I call ‘image-fare’. I focus on the 23-day war on Gaza that began on the 27 th December 2008, and make four interconnected claims about the relationship between visuality, law and violence. First, the strategic use of images by the Israeli military in Gaza served a legitimizing function that positions Israel as always and already the lawful victim, scripting Hamas as terroristic perpetrators, belonging to a resolutely “hostile” space (i.e. Gaza). Second, these visualities ‘work’ via the appeal to the immediacy of images; Israel insists on the factual, and thus legal, veracity of its own visual forms while rendering their – Palestinian – visual forms voyeuristic and intrinsically biased. Third, contesting these visualities and exposing the inconsistencies of the Israeli framing is difficult when taking into account the ways in which the visual fields of war are structured by ‘visual economies’ which regulate and mediate global media, and which construct new publics in the process of doing so. Wary of overstating the power of Israeli framings, while understating the possibilities of challenging those framings, I finish by considering what role the circulation of the visual archive might have in challenging Israeli visualities
Appeal · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Immediacy · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · Visual culture · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Public Spaces through Art
Vision, Race, and Modernity
Observant States
A painful labour
Photographic Interventions in Post-9/11 Security Policy
Shooting Gaza
A liminal territory
Regarding the pain of others
Seeing Red
The Death of the Civilian
Horrific Blindness
The Civil Contract of Photography
Martyr bodies in the media
Getting by the Occupation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |