Research on politics and art explores art’s engagement with politics and its vision of the world it analyzes art’s contribution to both our understanding of politics and problem solving. Art complicates our understandings and perceptions of the world, altering the discursive frames within which the political is negotiated. Put differently, everyday visions of peace constitute particular instances of the international.Īrt can be understood as a form of political discourse as a descriptive, an interpretive, or an explicitly critical approximation or as a vehicle with which to transcend the political. We argue that the analytical perspectives developed in this paper have also relevance beyond our examples: if peace photography can be found here, than it can also be found elsewhere. Third, we concentrate on the potentialities of peace photography in Colombia and Brazil-notorious spaces of everyday violence. Second, we advocate methodological pluralism by examining different analytical sites of peace photography. First, we explore a positive conception of peace at the individual and everyday level of analysis.
In contrast, we provide an alternative approach which aims to broaden our understanding of (the study of) peace in IR. Our illustrative examples show that it is insufficient to think about and analyze visual images only in connection with representations of large-scale violence and interstate war.
We suggest both understanding photography as a social agent promoting visions of peace and incorporating analysis of peace photography into IR's emerging agenda on peace. We move the field's focus on representations of war to representations of peace and develop the concept of peace photography.
In this paper, we engage with IR's recently rediscovered interest in peace and connect it with the visual turn in international relations.
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