Document details

Visual Security Studies: Sights and Spectacles of Insecurity and War

Abingdon; New York, NY: Routledge (2018), xii, 207 pp.

Contains figures, index

Series: Routledge New Security Studies

ISBN 978-1-315-38757-4 (online); 978-1-138-22992-1 (hbk)

1 Introduction: visual security studies / Rune S. Andersen and Juha Vuori, 1
I. VISIONS OF SECURITY TECHNOLOGY/TECHNOLOGICAL SECURITY VISION
2 Scalia.warhead1: securitization discourses in hacktivist video / Adam Fish, 23
3 The gaze, the drone dispositif, and necro-biographies: a brief conceptual intervention / Michael J. Shapiro, 38
4 CCTV oddity: on the archaeology and aesthetics of video surveillance / Paolo Cardullo and James Stevens, 52
II. SECURITY SPECTACLES AND SPECTATORSHIP
5 The humanity of war: iconic photojournalism of the battlefield, 1914-2012 / Lilie Chouliaraki, 71
6 World Drug Day and visual rituals of security in West Africa / Adam Sandor, 91
7 Collaging Iranian missiles: digital security spectacles and visual online parodies / Saara Sarma, 114
III. MAKING SECURITY VISIBLE
8 Leonardo’s security: the participant witness in a time of invisibility / Frank Möller, 133
9 Making norms visible: police uniforms and the social meaning of policing / Xavier T. Guillaume, Juha A. Vuori, and Rune S. Andersen, 150
10 Auto-photographing (in)securities: former young female soldiers' post-war struggles in Monrovia [Liberia], 171
11 Visual security: patterns and prospects / Roland Bleiker, 189