Political Visual Literacy

IF 3.5 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-04 DOI:10.1093/ips/olad010

Yoav Galai

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Abstract

Visual politics is a fast-growing field and much of it is focused on images that inspire criticism. This tendency results in a lack of attention to oppressive visual practices. A political visual literacy approaches all visual practices as being layered with different “visual truths” that were developed in response to political commitments over time. These “visual truths” inflected visual practices in ways that may outlive the political settings in which they were first articulated. Most important of these is the desire to capture human difference that framed the development of visual technologies and is still embedded in a range of visual practices. The methodology I develop here links a conjunctural analysis of visual tools and practices and the visual truths implicated in them with their operationalisation by actors as cultural tools through the framework of mediated action. I develop this approach by interrogating two layered and harmful visual practices: the White-centrism of visual technologies and the racialised origins of transphobic visualities in automatic gender recognition technology.

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政治视觉素养

视觉政治是一个快速发展的领域，其中大部分都集中在引发批评的图像上。这种倾向导致人们对压迫性视觉实践缺乏关注。政治视觉素养将所有视觉实践视为与不同的“视觉真理”分层，这些“视觉真相”是随着时间的推移为响应政治承诺而发展起来的。这些“视觉真理”以某种方式影响了视觉实践，可能比它们最初表达的政治环境更长久。其中最重要的是捕捉人类差异的愿望，这种差异构成了视觉技术的发展，并且仍然嵌入到一系列视觉实践中。我在这里开发的方法将视觉工具和实践以及其中包含的视觉真理的连词分析与行为者通过中介行动框架将其作为文化工具进行的操作联系起来。我通过质疑两种分层的有害视觉实践来发展这种方法：视觉技术的白人中心主义和自动性别识别技术中跨性别恐惧视觉的种族化起源。

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International Political Sociology Multiple-

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.