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Photographic Practices and the Making of Religion
Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter (2026), 242 pp.
"What role does photography play in the construction and preservation of religious identities and beliefs? Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the essays in this book explore this question, examining the theological reception of photography, its use in artistic and liturgical contexts, and th
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Afterimages of Apartheid: Photography and Resistance
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xxiii, 177 pp.
"Afterimages of Apartheid shows how photographs of the past can be mobilised as a critical tool for understanding the ongoing effects of apartheid in contemporary South Africa. Through close readings of significant images made during and after apartheid, the book shows how photography works as a mea
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Communicating a World-in-Crisis
New York: Peter Lang (2025), xiv, 391 pp.
"We live in a world increasingly defined by systemic, deepening and compounding crises. They threaten not only future human existence but also the planetary web-of-life. With the help of academics, creative practitioners and activists, this book explores some of the innovative ways in which differen
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The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xxiii, 419 pp.
"In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts. Ecological
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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t
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The True Size of Africa
München; Völklingen: Hirmer; Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site (2024), 320 pp.
"Our richly illustrated volume takes a multifaceted approach to the giant continent of Africa, transcending prejudices and stereotypes through cultural history and contemporary art, constant shifts in perspective, and artistic diversity: human history encounters the colonial past and the omnipresenc
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Seeing and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture, and Social Justice
New York: Columbia University Press (2023), xxix, 218 pp.
"In at least some cases, visual images can challenge normative and normalized ways of grasping the world and prompt their viewers to see differently-and even bring people together. Seeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for soci
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Der lange Atem kolonialer Bilder: Visuelle Praktiken von (Ex-)Soldaten und ihren Familien in Südtirol
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2023), 356 pp.
"Kolonialismus ist Teil vieler europäischer Familiengeschichten: Bis heute bewahren Familien Tagebücher, Militaria oder Beutestücke auf, die VorfahrInnen als koloniale AkteurInnen nach Hause gebracht haben. Sie bezeugen nicht nur familiäre Verstrickungen, sondern haben obendrein über Jahrzehnte
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Social media images and conflicts
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 137 pp.
"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela
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Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials
Los Angeles: Sage, 5th ed. (2023), xv, 454 pp.
"Whatever level of experience you have, this classic text will provide you with the key skills you need to complete a visual methods research project, understand the rationale behind each step, and engage with the contexts and power relations that shape our interpretation of visual images. With a cl
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Photographing Central Asia: From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), viii, 431 pp.
"The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the
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Indagaciones sobre imagen y representación visual
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca; Buenos Aires: Teseo (2022), 218 pp.
"En la actualidad el debate sobre la imagen y la cultura visual compromete un amplio abanico de tematizaciones, que van desde la vinculación de la imagen con la magia o el animismo hasta sus cualidades para intervenir en la comunicación textual de las tecnologías digitales. Si bien muchos estudio
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Alfabetización mediática e informacional: Una guía práctica de capacitación
Key Guides
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie, 3rd ed. (2021), 241 pp.
"Hay una variedad de estrategias y enfoques que se pueden aplicar para enseñar a la Alfabetización mediática e informacional (AMI), los cuales se centran en el conocimiento, la actitud y las habilidades. Por supuesto, las y los capacitadores están en la libertad de modificar las metodologías pr
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Visual Media and Development Education in Canadian Schools: 1980–2000
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 45-56
"For two decades, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) prepared pedagogical materials for Canadian schools. This article reviews the role of visual media in the hundreds of publications prepared for Development Education. Samples collected by Marc Rockbrune, Distribution Clerk respon
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Shooting Cameras for Peace: Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict = Disparando cámaras para la paz: Juventud, fotografía y el conflicto armado colombiano
Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum Press (2020), 251 pp.
"As a young Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, determined to democratize the photographic gaze and bring new visions and voices to public debate about Colombia's armed conflict, Alexander L. Fattal founded Disparando Cámaras para la Paz (Shooting Cameras for Peace). The project taught photography to you
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Afrika im Blick der Fotografen = Africa in the view of the photographers
Esslingen: Edition Cantz; Edition Völklinger Hütte (2020), 104 pp.
"Today’s discourses on Africa are manifold – as manifold as the images we have of everyday life there. Both are fed by a Western narrative that saddles the “Black Continent” with all kinds of clichés – whether the stuff of dreams or of nightmares. In images that are at times documentary,
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The Augmented Archive: History in Real Time. An Archaeology of Images of the Egyptian Revolution
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5092-5107
"This study explores the challenges of archiving the Egyptian revolution from 2011, and basically any archive consisting of digital media, specifically in contexts of ongoing political contestation. The text proposes a media-archaeological approach in both theory and practice: The media artist Kaya
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How Kenyans on Twitter Use Visuals as a Form of Political Protest
Kommunikation.Medien, issue 12 (2020), 27 pp.
"The growth of the Internet in the last two decades has helped increase political and civic en-gagement and scrutiny. The growth of a digital economy in Kenya has led to the emergence of a vibrant online community with 89.7 % of the population having access to the Internet. This paper examines how K
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