Visual securitization : humanitarian representations and migration governance / Alice Massari.
Massari, Alice, author.
2021
HV640.5.S97 M37 2021
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Title
Visual securitization : humanitarian representations and migration governance / Alice Massari.
Author
Massari, Alice, author.
ISBN
9783030711436 (electronic bk.)
3030711439 (electronic bk.)
3030711455
9783030711450
3030711420
9783030711429
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71143-6
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-71143-6 doi
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HV640.5.S97 M37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.8708095691
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.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2021).
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IMISCOE research series.
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Visual securitization.
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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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