Emotions and the Visual Representation of Human Suffering

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ID23402810
AutoresJ Auchter (0000-0002-2686-5948, Université Laval, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Páginas439-452
Data de publicação2024-11-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoThe Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197698532.013.33
OpenAlexW4404519792
ISBN9780197698532
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas25

This chapter discusses the connections between emotions and visual representation. It begins by examining how visual representation is often granted a privileged status as the way emotion is rendered accessible. This chapter offers a skeptical view of this notion that the visual is the only, or at least the key, way of accessing emotions, noting that this can reify particular types of representations, especially photographs. It suggests that, through this claim, photographs become reified as truth even more because they purportedly grant access to the unrepresentable “real” of the realm of emotion. Rather than considering specific visual representations such as images or media representations, the chapter instead considers the visual grammar through which emotional encounters occur in international relations (IR), including how emotions become visible to the researcher, particularly in the context of research on human suffering, a key subject of IR study.

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