Research Catalog

Title

Observant states : geopolitics and visual culture / edited by Fraser McDonald, Rachel Hughes and Klaus Dodds.

Publication

London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• MacDonald, Fraser, 1972-
• Hughes, Rachel.
• Dodds, Klaus

Description

x, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International library of human geography ; 16

Uniform Title

• International library of human geography 16.
• International library of human geography ; 16.

Subject

• Mass media and war
• Terrorism and mass media
• Mass media > Political aspects
• War in mass media
• Terrorism in mass media
• Geopolitics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: envisioning geopolitics / Fraser MacDonald, Rachel Hughes and Klaus Dodds -- Imaging terror: logos, pathos and ethos / James Der Derian -- Torture and the ethics of photography / Judith Butler -- 'Not to be missed' weapons of mass destruction: displaying the Enola Gay / Timothy W. Luke -- Flying the flag: Pan American Airways and the projection of US power across the interwar Pacific / Alison J. Williams -- Affectivity and geopolitical images / Sean Carter and Derek P. McCormack -- Gameworld geopolitics and the genre of the quest / Rachel Hughes -- 'I used to keep a camera in my top left-hand pocket': the photographic practices of British soldiers / Rachel Woodward, Trish Winter and K. Neil Jenkings -- The scopic regime of 'Africa' / David Campbell and Marcus Power -- Combat zones that see: urban warfare and US military technology / Stephen Graham -- Eye to eye: biometrics, the observer, the observed and the body politic / Emily Gilbert -- Vigilant visualities: the watchful politics of the war on terror / Louis Amoore -- Perpendicular sublime: regarding rocketry and the Cold War / Fraser MacDonald.

ISBN

• 9781845119447 (hbk.)
• 1845119444 (hbk.)
• 9781845119454 (pbk.)
• 1845119452 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010282510

OCLC

• 528443624
• SCSB-12882309

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library