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"Frank Möller's Visual Peace is a searching and original study. While much recent writing about photography and visual culture has focused on violence and conflict, and much of that work has relied on unexamined assumptions about spectatorship, Moller departs in two important and very fruitful ways. He subjects those assumptions to rigorous scrutiny, developing a compelling account of the viewer as 'participant witness,' and he shifts the axis of inquiry from the problem of violence to the prospects for peace. The result is an important and richly rewarding book."
- Mark Reinhardt, Williams College, USA
"Fluently moving across a wide-range of media, Visual Peace offers a lucid reappraisal of the current state of photojournalism. In a refreshingly inquisitive and jargon-free prose, Möller explores what it means to encounter images, and how we may gain and exert agency through them. Making a compelling case for the emerging field of Visual Peace Studies, among the book's many merits is that it engages us both as readers and as viewers, eliciting a space to experience and reflect upon the visual source material on our own. For at stake are not merely what we demand from images, but ultimately what we demand from ourselves."
- Henrik Gustafsson, University of Tromsø, Norway
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Book Title: Visual Peace
Book Subtitle: Images, Spectatorship, and the Politics of Violence
Authors: Frank Möller
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137020406
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02039-0Published: 18 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43749-8Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02040-6Published: 18 October 2013
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 274
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Conflict Studies, Arts, Photography, Media Studies