Visualizing international relations: Challenges and opportunities in an emerging research field

Roland Bleiker
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The visual is central to global politics. Over the past two decades, scholars in the field of international relations have increasingly recognized and examined the numerous and complex ways in which the visual, the political and the international are intertwined. They have scrutinized how a diverse range of global political phenomena – from war, diplomacy and development to election campaigns and refugee policies – are shaped by images and visual artefacts, such as photographs, film, videogames, satellite images, art, surveillance technologies, monuments and architecture. The purpose of this commentary is two-fold. First: I overview this bourgeoning body of literature on visuality in international relations. I discuss the emergence and evolution of this field of research, drawing attention to the significance of the ensuing contributions. Second: I highlight three key challenges that lie ahead: understanding the changing relationship between visuality and digitalization; embarking on more cross-disciplinary inquires; decolonizing research on visual communication. I end with highlighting that understanding the role of visuality goes far beyond appreciating the political impact of images. Visuality goes to the very core of politics because it shapes how we – as individuals and as collectives – see, perceive and enact the political world around us.
可视化国际关系:一个新兴研究领域的挑战与机遇
视觉是全球政治的核心。在过去的二十年里,国际关系领域的学者们越来越认识到并研究了视觉、政治和国际交织在一起的众多复杂方式。他们仔细研究了各种各样的全球政治现象——从战争、外交和发展到竞选活动和难民政策——是如何被图像和视觉人工制品(如照片、电影、视频游戏、卫星图像、艺术、监控技术、纪念碑和建筑)塑造的。这篇评论的目的是双重的。首先,我概述了这一新兴的国际关系可视化文献。我讨论了这一研究领域的出现和演变,提请注意随后的贡献的意义。其次,我强调了未来的三个关键挑战:理解视觉与数字化之间不断变化的关系;开展更多的跨学科调查;视觉传达的非殖民化研究。我最后强调,理解视觉的作用远远超出了欣赏图像的政治影响。视觉性是政治的核心,因为它塑造了我们——作为个人和集体——如何看待、感知和制定我们周围的政治世界。
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