Imaging Toxins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21193011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Peeples (United States Institute of Peace, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-210 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-4032 • E-ISSN: 1752-4040 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17524032.2013.775172 |
| OpenAlex | W4246888329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 25 |
This essay examines how toxins are visually represented in news and popular media. More specifically, it analyzes the function of visual narratives, identity, place, and uncertainty in the construction of the controversial toxicant Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the US military during the Vietnam War to reduce jungle cover and destroy cropland causing devastating health and environmental effects. Toxins present an interesting challenge for visual construction in that they are often invisible and banal in their esthetics. The essay concludes with five observations for understanding the relationship between images and toxins
Aesthetics · Agent Orange · Archaeology · Art · Jungle · Literature · Narrative · Toxicant · Climate Change Communication and Perception · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Medicine · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Remediation Practices in Environmental Communication
Differential Being and Emergent Agitation
Toxic Identification
Fossil fuel violence and visual practices on Indigenous land
Architectural Advocacy
Reform, Justice, and Sovereignty
The Story of an Emerging Energy Issue
Contemporary Environmental Art in China
Connecting the Dots
Politics of Edibility
What’s in the World Is in the Womb
On environments of not knowing
Union Carbide’s “Hand in Things to Come”
The Visual Politics of Environmental Justice
The Colour of Eco-Crime
The green revolution
Agency, Democracy, and Nature
Defining Moments in Risk Communication Research
Images of liberation? Visual framing, humanitarianism and British press photography during the 2003 Iraq invasion
Toxic Sublime
Family of Fallen Leaves
Reading Images - The Grammar of Visual Design
Contrasting visual frames of our times
Picturing environmental risk
Risk, transparency and cover up
The Truth of the Matter
Securing vision
Blood on their hands
Visually branding the environment
Toxic Struggles
Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems
Language, symbols, and media
Introduction
Recognizing Historical Injustice through Photography
Toxic Discourse
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |