General Information

Language

English.

Published

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2023.

Physical Description

354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Pinney, Christopher, (editor contributor.)

Binaisa, Naluwembe, (editor contributor.)

Buthpitiya, Vindhya, (editor contributor.)

Kalantzis, Konstantinos, (editor contributor.)

Selejan, Ileana, (editor contributor.)

Young, Sokphea, (editor contributor.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, the PhotoDemos Collective traces the resonances between political representation and photographic representation. The authors emphasize photography as lived practice and how photography's performative, transformative, and transgressive possibilities facilitate the articulation of new identities. They analyze photography ranging from family albums to social media to state and public archives, showing how it points to unknown futures and destinations in the context of social movements, the aftermath of atrocity and civil war, and the legacies of past injustices. By foregrounding photography's future-oriented, open-ended, and contingent nature and its ability to subvert and reconfigure conventional political identifications, this volume demonstrates that as much as photography looks to the past, it points to the future, acting in advance of social reality"--

Subjects

Subject

Photography > Political aspects.

Photography > Social aspects.

Documentary photography.

Photography in ethnology.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Christopher Pinney ; with the PhotoDemos Collective (Naluwembe Binaisa, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Christopher Pinney, Ileana L. Selejan, and Sokphea Young).

Content

Introduction. Photographing : or, the future of the image / Christopher Pinney -- "The truth is in the soil" : the political work of photography in northern Sri Lanka / Vindhya Buthpitiya -- Visual citizenship in Cambodia : from apocalypse to visual "political emancipation" / Sokphea Young -- Photography, citizenship, and accusatory memory in the Greek crisis / Konstantinos Kalantzis --Insurgent archive : the photographic making and unmaking of the Nicaraguan revolutionary state / Ileana L. Selejan -- "We are moving with technology" : photographing voice and belonging in Nigeria / Naluwembe Binaisa -- Citizenship, contingency, and futurity : photographic ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh / Christopher Pinney.

ISBN

9781478020769

9781478020004

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	770 PIN		Reference	-

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