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Mediating Mobility: Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration
Steffen Kohn
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Description for Mediating Mobility: Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration
Paperback. Series: Nonfictions. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 334.
Images have become an integral part of the political regulation of migration: they help produce categories of legality versus illegality, foster stereotypes, and mobilize political convictions. Yet how are we to understand the relationship between these images and the political in the discourse surrounding migration? How can we, as anthropologists, migration scholars, or documentary filmmakers visually represent people who are excluded from political representation? And how can such visual representations gain political momentum? This volume not only considers the images that circulate with reference to migrants or draw attention to those that accompany, show, or conceal them. The book explores ... Read more
Images have become an integral part of the political regulation of migration: they help produce categories of legality versus illegality, foster stereotypes, and mobilize political convictions. Yet how are we to understand the relationship between these images and the political in the discourse surrounding migration? How can we, as anthropologists, migration scholars, or documentary filmmakers visually represent people who are excluded from political representation? And how can such visual representations gain political momentum? This volume not only considers the images that circulate with reference to migrants or draw attention to those that accompany, show, or conceal them. The book explores ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Nonfictions
Condition
New
Weight
333g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178891
SKU
V9780231178891
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About Steffen Kohn
Steffen Kohn is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and postdoctoral researcher in visual and media anthropology at Freie Universitat Berlin.
Reviews for Mediating Mobility: Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration
This study provides an outstanding contribution to our knowledge regarding the visual representation and analysis of the migrant experience in the contemporary, globalized world. Challenging established discourses of visual representation of migration, and situating his argument within recent advances in the anthropology of contemporary art, phenomenology, and the ethics of representation, the author develops a new anthropology of the moving ... Read more