Global corpse politics : the obscenity taboo
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Global corpse politics : the obscenity taboo
（Cambridge studies in international relations, 157）
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "Visualizing Corpse Politics Jessica Auchter Several years ago, when the images of Syrian torture victims' dead bodies were released by a photographer who had worked for the Syrian security forces and defected, I printed them out on a communal office printer, since my individual office printer did not print in color. I wanted to have them as a reference to go back to, and given the uncertainty of internet links, I didn't want to rely on being able to access them again online. In fact, having followed the publication of dead body images as an area of academic study for quite some time, I was also concerned that over the following days, the pictures would be removed from public access due to their graphic nature, the same way beheading images had been removed from online platforms and rescinded by media publications, the 9/11 falling body images had steadily been removed over time as they became considered too obscene to be seen (Auchter 2014), and ..."
Contents of Works
- Visualization corpse politics
- Horrifically graphic : the obscene corpse
- The visual politics of ISIS beheadings
- Dead terrorists and dead dictators
- Proof of death : evidence and atrocity
- Displaying the dead body : some conclusions