Overview
- Analyses photographic representations and anticipations of peace
- Examines how photography can represent and contribute to peace
- Develops a completely new research agenda for visual peace research
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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About this book
This study thinks with photography about peace. It asks how photography can represent peace, and how such representation can contribute to peace. The book offers an original critique of the almost exclusive focus on violence in recent work on visual culture and presents a completely new research agenda within the overall framework of visual peace research. Critically engaging with both photojournalism and art photography in light of peace theories, it looks for visual representations or anticipations of peace – peace or peace as a potentiality – in the work of selected photographers including Robert Capa and Richard Mosse, thus reinterpreting photography from the Spanish Civil War to current anti-migration politics in Europe. The book argues that peace photography is episodic, culturally specific, process-oriented and considerate of both the past and the future.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“Peace Photography is a stimulating chronicle of existing research and the author’s own analysis of the subject of photography during conflict. Peace photography, like peace journalism, advances a novel rethinking of conventional approaches to the representation of peace and security.” (Toby Nelson, Global Change, Peace & Security, March 20, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Frank Möller is Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), University of Tampere, Finland, where he created and established visual peace research as an integral ingredient of peace and conflict studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peace Photography
Authors: Frank Möller
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03222-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03221-0Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03222-7Published: 17 December 2018
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Photography, International Relations Theory, Journalism