The Image World of Maternal Mortality
Visual Economies of Hope and Aspiration in the Global Campaigns to Reduce Maternal Mortality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8065417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M E Macdonald (0000-0002-8432-5544, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 263-285 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-4364 • E-ISSN: 2151-4372 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hum.2019.0013 |
| OpenAlex | W2963848879 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay explores the aesthetic and narrative conventions of the still and moving images deployed in global campaigns to reduce maternal mortality since the 1980s. I focus on how an international community of advocates, policy makers, and practitioners choose, understand, and use images to create awareness, rouse public sympathy and interest, and call people to action on this issue. I argue that the global maternal health community has constructed an "image world" not of suffering but of hope and aspiration by which they hope to foment the shared sense of humanity and impulse to act that is said to be at the heart of humanitarianism
Action (physics · Humanity · Impulse (physics · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Sympathy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Law · Social Psychology
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What Reproductive Justice Brings to and Requires of The Feminist Economics Project
A Calculated Appeal
ICPD at Thirty
Medicalisation, depoliticisation and reproductive stratification
Behind the measures of maternal and reproductive health
Anti-Politics Machine
Talking about pictures
Conclusion
Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture
Aesthetics and Anaesthetics
Too far to walk
The boundaries of the self and the unhealthy other
Health as a meaningful social practice
Safe motherhood, unsafe abortion
Delicious Horrors
Speechless Emissaries
A Message in a Bottle
Playing the Numbers Game
The suffering stranger
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |