38 research outputs found
On Looking: Lynching Photographs and Legacies of Lynching after 9/11
On looking at lynching photograph
Just Joking? Chimps, Obama and Racial Stereotype
Public racist stereotypes after the election of Barack Obam
The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
One of the most pressing challenges in the world today is access to clean water. This chapter explores the crises of contaminated water in Flint, water shutoffs in Detroit, and larger questions about the control of water by private corporations and the changing nature of urbanization. As neoliberal policies seek to privatize infrastructure and essential resources, the resulting crises illustrate the disastrous results of decisions driven by profit rather than the public good and demonstrate the need for a rethinking of the urban imaginary to produce a radically democratic, anticapitalist form of global urbanization
The Auschwitz Memorial Museum and the Case of the Gypsy Portraits
A unique dispute over ownership rights to artwork in the case of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum vs. former camp prisoner Dinah Gottliebova Babbitt illuminates underlying moral questions about the Holocaust and post-Holocaust culture
Technologies of War, Media, and Dissent in the Post 9/11 Work of Krzysztof Wodiczko
On the work of Krzysztof Wodiczk
The Ruins of Capitalism
By depicting urban decay and ecological crisis, ruin imagery shows the people and places that capitalism left behind
Between Two Worlds: Arab Americans in Detroit
Catalog essay for "Brotherville," photographic exhibition by Farah Al Qasim
Torture Culture: Lynching Photographs and the Images of Abu Ghraib
On the photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the visual politics of powe
"Heroes" and "Whores": The Politics of Gender in Weimar Antiwar Imagery
Weimar antimilitarist imagery shows that ideals of manliness and maternity, concepts central to the German patriotic view of World War I, were not limited to use by the political right but were redefined and deployed by antiwar artists Otto Dix and Käthe Kollwitz, and in photographs published by the pacifist propagandist Ernst Friedrich, who exhibited images by all three in his International Antiwar Museum in Berlin in 1924. These gendered representations of war, while throwing into question the straightforward "progressiveness" of antiwar visual imagery, reveal the relationship between gendered identity, militarism, and patriarchal capitalism
Cultural Battlegrounds: Weimar Photographic Narratives of War
On pacifist and patriotic visual imagery and the tenth anniversary of the First World War in Weimar Germa