Affective Imageries - Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste

Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste analyzes the political mobilization of images of wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict societies. The book goes beyond traditional analyses of visual politics to offer a new perspective on the construction of affective imageries by considering the importance of poems, photographs and artworks, and calling attention to other ways in which bodies can be affected by conflicts beyond the debate over the physical wounds of war. Connecting debates on visual politics affects and memory studies, and drawing lessons from the East Timorese case, Marcelle Trote Martins reveals how 'affective imageries' are created and mobilized, determining the status of the bodies shown in the images, and the kind of (international) attention they merit.

List of contents

Introduction. Affective Imageries of Timor-Leste
Chapter 1. The Affective Power of the Image
Chapter 2. Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies
Chapter 3. Visualising Atrocities through Poetry: Resistance in East Timor
Chapter 4. Photographs of Horror: Mobilising Solidarity for Timor-Leste
Chapter 5. Seeing the Invisible: The Bodies-in-Suffering in Commemorative Practices in East Timor
Conclusion. A New Framework for Visual Politics

About the author

Marcelle Trote Martins is a Teaching Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University.

Product details

• Authors: Marcelle Trote Martins, Marcelle Trote Trote Martins Martins, Marcelle Trote Martins
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2024
• EAN: 9781666942446
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-244-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, East Timor / Timor-Leste