Reading comics for the field of International Relations: Theory, method and the Bosnian War

Hansen, Lene

doi:10.1177/1354066116656763

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“…Like comic books (Hansen 2017; see also: Thorsten 2012) and magazine covers (Hansen 2015;Heck and Schlag 2012), posters are single frame images where text is usually part of the visual itself, thus deconstructing text/image, discursive/non-discursive, agent/agency-less dichotomies.…”

Section: Images As Genderedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing (in)security, gender and silencing: posters in and about the British women’s suffrage movement

Cooper-Cunningham

2019

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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Feminist Security Studies has focused on expanding the referent object to individuals and nonstate collectives, looking beyond the military sector to include questions of identity, and uncovering (in)security in unexpected places. An important part of this debate is over silence, particularly about how certain individuals are silenced and how they might be brought into view. This article looks at the ways images can be used to make gender-specific security problems visible. It holds that text, images, and practices interact to construct (in)security and it outlines a tripartite text-image-practice model for analysing these interactions. Through a case-study of the British women's suffrage movement it illustrates the potential of the text-image-practice model. The suffrage movement leveraged visuals, militancy, and practices like hunger striking to resist attempted silencing by the government across textual, verbal and visual planes. Using the suffrage campaign, the article shows how posters were used to try to silence Suffragettes and how Suffragettes resisted that silencing. Thus, it demonstrates that images are important sites of feminist resistance and security politics that can also communicate a politics of the body. The article also offers an illustration of how historical cases of gender insecurity and resistance as well as their visualisation can be brought into Feminist Security Studies.

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Section: Images As Genderedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seeing (in)security, gender and silencing: posters in and about the British women’s suffrage movement

Cooper-Cunningham

2019

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…In some connection to the increased attention to narratives, 'visual politics' assume the emergence of a visual age where images, photos, movies, television and social media influence how questions of international politics are approached (Callahan 2015;Hansen 2017). The role of visual politics in IR thus far has been to point to visuals as a 'space' that manifests the links between the visual and the political.…”

Section: Stories In the Narrative Visual And Aesthetic Turns In Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

Storytelling in EU public diplomacy: reputation management and recognition of success

Hedling

2019

Place Brand Public Dipl

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This article draws attention to storytelling in public diplomacy. Based on interviews with officials in the European External Action Service (EEAS) and a campaign on social media, it explores storytelling in EU public diplomacy. It treats storytelling as narrative strategies that tap into the power of dramaturgy and visual elements to mediate emotions and identity in international politics. This understanding of storytelling is discussed in relation to three interrelated bodies of literature of relevance to the digitalization of public diplomacy. The study traces how storytelling in the EEAS stems from the norm of engagement, intends for a process of legitimation through techniques of representation, and has the goal of recognition. The analysis illustrates the conceptualization of storytelling focusing on the communication of the European Union's Global Strategy launched in June 2016. The article finds the role of storytelling to be a result of the perceived new urgency of engaging domestic publics in EU foreign policy. In this context the role of stories to evoke emotions and the opportunities on social media to project these stories, are highly valued.

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“…Recent scholarship in the broader field of IR has discussed the significance and implications of visual art and popular culture in global politics (Weldes 2003;Campbell 2007;Dodds 2007;Bleiker 2009;Grayson et al 2009;Hansen 2017;Moore and Shepherd 2010;Buzan 2010;Shim 2017;Thorsten 2012). This approach is often called 'aesthetic' IR and has included an ongoing debate about, and development of, theoretical and analytical approaches.…”

Section: Interpretations Of Power and Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Popular culture and politics: re-narrating the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute

Ling

Nakamura

2019

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Narrative, we argue, can (re)construct social reality. Alternative imaginaries of 'being in the world' can lead to alternative ways of 'doing in the world'. We discuss the current dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands as an example. Westphalian logic would have the two countries come to blows, if not go to war, over the Islands. The Westphalian account of the dispute centres on the key principle of sovereignty. But what if we utilized a different imaginary to re-narrate the conflict? We turn to popular culture in both Japan and China as a guide, and juxtapose two anime, Appleseed and Time of Eve, with one Chinese TV drama, Nirvana in Fire. Each of these upends conventional analyses of the Islands dispute and offers alternative conceptions of sovereignty. We conclude by considering the implications of such alternative imaginaries for the study, if not practice, of international relations. 1 In September 2012, the Japanese government purchased eight uninhabited islets from private ownership, calling them the Senkaku Islands. However, China also claims sovereignty over the same islands, calling them the Diaoyu Tai (Global Times/Xinhua 2012). See Drifte (2003, 2014) and Hunt (2017). 2 Rumours claim that rich oil reserves lie underneath these islets. Others cite the islets' 'strategic location' in the middle of international shipping lanes and fishing grounds (The Economist 2013). 3 Beijing and Tokyo have each increased their military budgets due to tensions in the East

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Reading comics for the field of International Relations: Theory, method and the Bosnian War

Cited by 24 publications

References 47 publications

Seeing (in)security, gender and silencing: posters in and about the British women’s suffrage movement

Seeing (in)security, gender and silencing: posters in and about the British women’s suffrage movement

Storytelling in EU public diplomacy: reputation management and recognition of success

Popular culture and politics: re-narrating the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute

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