Photography and migration /

Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood and pity, so much more can be...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Photography and migration: keywords / Tanya Sheehan. Part I. (Im)mobility: 2. Back to America: photography and Japanese Americans from incarceration to resettlement / Jasmine Alinder ; 3. Residential school photographs: the visual rhetoric of Indigenous removal and containment / Carol Williams ; 4. Animating death: stills that migrate / Anne Teresa Demo
  • Part II. Border: 5. The razor's edge: image and corpo-reality at Europe's borders / Parvati Nair ; 6. Fantasy islands: photography, empathy, and Australia's detention archipelago / Jane Lydon ; 7. The indecisive moment: photoethnography on the undocumented migration trail / Jason De León
  • Part III. Refugee: 8. Refugee photography and the subject of human interest / Thy Phu ; 9. Feelings, Facebook, forced migration: photographs of refugees and effective spaces online / Marta Zarzycka ; 10. The visual politics of climate refugees / T.J. Demos
  • Part IV. Diaspora: 11. Photography and diaspora: a roundtable / Anthony W. Lee with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng Tay ; 12. Intimacy out of doors: landscape, labor, and Chinese diasporic practices of looking / Nadine Attewell ; 13. Kan Azuma and the Japanese Canadian diaspora: perception, identity, and their erosion / Martha Langford.