Description du projet
Le pouvoir politique des images à l’échelle internationale
On dit souvent qu’une image vaut mille mots. Imaginez l’effet des photographies officielles des leaders mondiaux se rencontrant lors d’un sommet sur la politique internationale. Ces images façonnent les événements internationaux et la compréhension générale du public sur des questions actuelles lorsqu’elles sont largement partagées à travers les différents réseaux sociaux. En ce qui concerne les relations entre pays, les images peuvent présenter une dynamique négative ou positive. Le projet VISUAL, financé par l’UE, examinera le rôle des images dans la politique mondiale. Il évaluera également le rôle du genre dans la politique visuelle de reconnaissance. À l’aide d’un cas et d’une méthode d’étude, le projet fournira des connaissances sur la manière dont les images peuvent influencer les relations internationales.
Objectif
Images are an important component of recognition between states: official photographs of high-level summit meetings, or images circulated by state representatives over Twitter, are used to visualise positive or negative interstate relationships that reflect, or challenge, established recognition dynamics. Despite the political importance of recognition, there are currently no studies on the visual politics of this process in International Relations. The purpose of the VISUAL project is to take the field a step further through the development of an innovative and original typology for the visual politics of recognition.
In VISUAL we have the unique opportunity to advance our knowledge of the role images play in global politics. Using a theoretically-driven, exploratory analytical methodology employing a mixed-methods approach, the project theorizes and conceptualises successful and failed recognition by situating images within a process we know is politically significant: EU, NATO and G7 summit meetings and the acrimonious Iran-US relationship. In addition hereto, VISUAL explores the role of gender in the visual politics of recognition, developing a feminist visual methodology, the first of its kind in International Relations. Using the 'case plus study' methodology, VISUAL will address three main research questions across three sub-studies: 1) What are the visual modalities of recognition, successful and failed? 2) How are rival interpretations of recognition in the Iran-US relationship visualised? 3) How are gender norms reproduced or challenged in images signifying successful or failed recognition?
I will significantly benefit from a placement at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, under the supervision of Professor Lene Hansen, as it is the premiere international institution for the theoretical and empirical study of images in the field of International Relations.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
1165 Kobenhavn
Danemark