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Distanced suffering: Photographed suffering and the construction of white in/vulnerability

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dc.contributor.authorSzorenyi, A.
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThere has been much debate about the ethics and effectiveness of the circulation of photographs of suffering. An analysis of commentaries and reviews of such photographs shows that the genre interpellates a particular spectator, for whom the “distance” of suffering is viewed from a comfortable centre. This mode of spectatorship is identifiable as “white” in its claim to unmarked privilege. The photographs threaten to destabilise this unmarked privilege in potentially productive ways, but the reproduction of colonial viewing relations means that whiteness remains centred. The paper concludes by attempting to destabilise the centre by bringing the discussion of the relation between suffering and sovereignty closer to “home”.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityAnna Szorenyi
dc.identifier.citationSocial Semiotics, 2009; 19(2):93-109
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10350330902815816
dc.identifier.isbn9781443803267
dc.identifier.issn1035-0330
dc.identifier.issn1470-1219
dc.identifier.orcidSzorenyi, A. [0000-0002-2092-5970]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/58877
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rights© 2009 Taylor & Francis
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10350330902815816
dc.subjectdocumentary photography
dc.subjectwhiteness
dc.subjectspectatorship
dc.subjectsuffering
dc.subjectvulnerability
dc.titleDistanced suffering: Photographed suffering and the construction of white in/vulnerability
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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