Witnessing famine: the testimonial work of famine photographs and anti-colonial spectatorship
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DOI: 10.1177/1470412919879067
Abstract: The scholarly discussions of photo-documentation as a human rights practice have typically regarded images as a means of making suffering public and provoking affective responses as well as remedial actions. Overwhelmingly, however, liberal humanitarian images… read more here.
Keywords: anti colonial; witnessing famine; famine photographs; photographs ... See more keywords