Visual Appropriation

A Self-reflexive Qualitative Method for Visual Analysis of the International

Bibliographic Data

ID2236623
AuthorsFrank Möller (0000-0003-1964-4669, Tampere University), Rasmus Bellmer (0000-0001-6350-2292, Tampere University), Rune Saugmann (0000-0002-6936-8845, Tampere University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume16
Issue1
Publication date2022-04-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olab029
OpenAlexW4200163745
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited46

This article introduces visual appropriation as a method in critical international political thinking and acting, contributing to the evolving repertoire of multiple, pluralist methods for visual analysis of international relations operating in a digital visual environment. We define appropriation as reuse of existing visual material-either in its entirety or in part-without substantially altering the immanent characteristics of the appropriated material. As appropriators, scholars are producers of images who capitalize on and actively participate in digital visuality (seeing-changing-sharing). Appropriators are both image-analysts and image-actors but distinct from both, contributing not only to the visual analysis, but also to the visual construction of international relations. Approaching the international through appropriation grants researchers increased agency and responsibility vis-à-vis existing visual materials 'out-there.' Rather than exploring a digital space of visual images produced and appropriated by others, researchers consciously and deliberately partake in the production and dissemination of images. As a result, we highlight how we-as scholars and as citizens-are facing research-ethical problematiques linked to ways of showing and seeing inevitably emanating from appropriation

Agency (philosophy) · Appropriation · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual Literacy · Visual research · Visual rhetoric · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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