Bibliograph

Visual Securitization, Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance, by Alice Massari

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Label

Visual Securitization, Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance, by Alice Massari

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Visual Securitization

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1253473585

Responsibility statement

by Alice Massari

Series statement

IMISCOE Research Series,, 2364-4087Open Access e-Books

Sub title

Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance

Summary

This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations' visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes place in three different ways. First of all, even if marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of mainstream media and political accounts that have depicted refugees in terms of threats. Secondly, and more consistently, through a representation of Syrian displaced people that, despite the undeniable innovative aesthetic patterns focusing on dignity and empowerment, continue to reinforce a visual narrative around refugees in terms of victimhood and passivity. The reproduction of a securitized account takes also place through the dialectic between what is made visible in the pictures and what is not. At the same time the book identifies visual glimmers and minor displacements in the humanitarian discourse that have the potentiality to produce alternative discourses on refugees and displacement beyond the mainstream securitized ones. By showing how relief organizations' visual representation contributes to the securitization of the refugee issue, this book provides a great resource to students and academics in migration, visuality, humanitarianism and securitization, as well as social scientists and policy-makers.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: The Theory and Methodology of Visual Securitization -- Chapter 2. Humanitarianism, Securitization and Humanitarian Communication -- Chapter 3. A Visual Approach -- Part II: Humanitarian Representation and Migration Governance -- Chapter 4. Humanitarian Ngos and Global Governance: One, no One and One Hundred Thousand Humanitarian Ngos -- Chapter 5. Threatening - The Refugee as a Threat -- Chapter 6. Threatened, The Refugee as the Referent Object -- Chapter 7. The (In)Visibility of Migrants -- Chapter 8. Conclusion

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