Citizenship in Between. Looking for Methods to Visual Studies in Spanish Guinea during the Francoist Dictatorship

Abstract

Abstract Citizenship studies have been consolidated as a field of analysis since the 1950s, although debates about the conditions of citizenship status can be traced to earlier times. In this article I discuss how different notions of citizenship may be usefully applied to visual studies for thinking about colonialism and its legacies through the photographic image. Considering the photographic production relating to the final ten years of Spain’s colonial rule of Equatorial Guinea —from its conversion into a province (1958) until its independence (1968)—the article proposes citizenship as a key concept for a political analysis of images in which white Europeans and black Africans interact or which make racial segregation visible.