Citizenship, Diaspora and the Bonds of Affect
The Passport Photograph
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5808926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lily Cho (0000-0003-2018-9069, Western University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-287 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photography and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-4517 • E-ISSN: 1751-4525 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/175145109x12532077132310 |
| OpenAlex | W2070911994 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 9 |
The foreclosure of emotion in a passport photograph, the identity document that ties a person to a nation, illuminates a contradiction between feeling and citizenship. On the one hand, as these instructions for the passport photographs suggest, emotion obscures the identity of the citizen. On the other, as I will discuss in further detail, emotion, or the capacity for it, is very much a part of the conception of the modern citizen. My paper will take up this contradiction in order to examine the relationship between diaspora and citizenship. Through an exploration of the passport photograph, I argue diasporic subjects lay bare the problem of emotion at the heart of contemporary citizenship
Affect · Contradiction · Diaspora · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Asian Canadian Photopoetics Fred Wah’s “Sentenced to Light”
Picturing Resistance and Resilience
Photographing Imperial Citizenship
Photography between Desire and Grief
The Feeling of Photography, the Feeling of Kinship
Intimacy Among Strangers
‘Birthplace unknown’
Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography
The Queer Optics of the Vietnamese Diaspora
Transactions and Trajectories
Imagining home
Hydrosocial Precarity and Postmillennial Indian Fiction
Disempathy and emotional witnessing in passport photography
I feel I should put that work in
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |