Visual global politics / edited by Roland Bleiker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Body / Elizabeth Dauphinee -- Borders / Shine Choi -- Celebrity / Tanja Müller -- Children / Katrina Lee-Koo -- Climate / Kate Manzo -- CNN effect / Piers Robinson -- Colonialism / Stephen Chan -- Compassion fatigue / Susan D. Moeller -- Culture / William A. Callahan -- Democracy / Mark Chou -- Development / Kalpana Wilson -- Digital media / Sebastian Kaempf -- Diplomacy / Costas M. Constantinou -- Drones / Lauren Wilcox -- Empathy / Nick Robinson -- Face / Jenny Edkins -- Famine / David Campbell -- Fear / Cynthia Weber -- Finance / James Brassett -- Foreign policy / Simon Philpott -- Gender / Linda Åhäll -- Geopolitics / Klaus Dodds -- Humanitarianism / Lilie Chouliaraki -- Human rights / Sharon Sliwinski -- Icons / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites -- Identity / Iver B. Neumann -- Indigeneity / Sally Butler -- Invisibility / Elspeth van Veeren -- Memory / Nayanika Mookherjee -- Militarisation / Laura Shepherd -- Nation / Shirin M. Rai -- Peace / Frank Möller -- Perpetrators / Susie Linfield -- Pictorial turn / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Protest / Nicole Doerr and Noa Milman -- Rape / Ariella Azoulay -- Refugees / Heather Johnson -- Religion / Erin K. Wilson -- Roma / Anca Pusca -- Satellites / David Shim -- Security / Lene Hansen -- Sexual violence / Marysia Zalevski -- State / Brent Steele -- Surveillance / Rune Saugmann Andersen -- Territory / Jordan Branch -- Time / Michael J. Shapiro -- Trauma / Emma Hutchison -- Travel / Debbie Lisle -- Violence / Mark Reinhardt -- War / James Der Derian -- Witnessing / Alex Danchev.

"We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments and videogames, frame how politics is perceived and enacted. Drones, satellites and surveillance cameras watch us around the clock and deliver images that are then put to political use. Add to this that new technologies now allow for a rapid distribution of still and moving images around the world. Digital media platforms, such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, play an important role across the political spectrum, from terrorist recruitment drives to social justice campaigns.This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics. Written by leading experts in numerous scholarly disciplines and presented in accessible and engaging language, Visual Global Politics is a one-stop source for students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the crucial and persistent role of images in today's world."--Provided by publisher.