Global Corpse Politics: The Obscenity Taboo

ISBN-13: 9781009054386 / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str.

Chattanooga) Auchter Jessica (University of Tennessee

Opis

What makes a photograph of a dead body obscene? Auchter's genealogy of obscenity argues that this process is highly political.

Recenzje

'What can the dead tell us about global politics? In this thoughtful and considerate book, Jessica Auchter refuses to see dead bodies as the grisly remnants of global politics. Instead, she explains how corpses work to constitute global politics, focusing particular attention on how dead bodies have been used to both re-humanise and de-humanise the people that populate international landscape. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in images of death that circulate in the media because it provides the theoretical tools we need to understand how death is seen, whose deaths are seen, and what these death reveal about the living world we inhabit.' Thomas Gregory, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland

Spis treści

1. Visualizing corpse politics; 2. Horrifically graphic: the obscene corpse; 3. The visual politics of ISIS beheadings; 4. Dead terrorists and dead dictators; 5. Proof of death: evidence and atrocity; 6. Displaying the dead body: Some conclusions.