[ecrea] Call for Videos on Visuality of Security

Some of you may be interested in the following:

Call for Videos on Visuality of Security
Audiovisual Thinking Issue #2012:6


The Visuality of Security
- using audiovisual research methods to investigate the role of images
in international security.

Guest editor: Rune Saugmann, University of
(Copenhagenrsa /at/ ifs.ku.dk)<mailto:(rsa /at/ ifs.ku.dk)>

During the last few decades, visuality and visual media has become
paramount in the practices that make up international security. The
instant release of video and still images from the killing of Osama Bin
Laden, the constitution of WikiLeaks as a global actor through its
release of a classified US military video in april 2010, the role played
by videos in both the 2009 Iranian post-election crisis and the 2011
‘Arab Spring’ are but the most recent examples. Concomitantly,
questions relating to visuality have gradually become a major concern of
contemporary scholarship on security.

This Special Issue of Audiovisual Thinking calls for videos analyzing
international security practices, intending to spark a debate on how the
images and visual practices that makes up a major part of our experience
of international relations look if we analyze them visually, rather than
verbally.

As visuality has taken center stage – helped by profound changes in
the media landscape that have greatly expanded the circulability of
visuals as well as the range of actors capable of producing visuals –
the irreducability of visuals to words have become an ever more
pertinent problem for IR research and teaching.

Visual analysis, whether still or moving, must confront the same crucial
questions that make images a pertinent problematique of international
security scholarship. It has to deal with the ’surplus of meaning’
in images compared to verbal interpretations of them and
with images’ ‘promiscuity’ and openness to interpretation (Barthes
1977).

Seeking to investigate visuality from within its own modality, this
special issue is an attempt to sensitise IR to the visual as a form of
knowledge, and open up for debates about how this particular modality of
the sensible not only determines what is visible and what is not; but
also how authority and truth-claims comes about, are compared and
evaluated; with deep implications for who can have a voice and be heard
and who cannot.

The call asks scholars to e.g.

- engage with the ‘language’ or ‘code’ of the visual, to
interrogate hiding and showing in IR,

- to engage the economy and grammar of visual articulation and
production of knowledge,

-to shine a critical light on visual security practices,

- to highlight how visuality can work as a method of studying
international relations rather than only as an object of study – and
in doing so seeking to expose how scholars can benefit from
visual ‘literacy’ when dealing with visuality and visual media in
international relations.


THIS CALL IS NOW OPEN - and closes 15th December 2012.

What is Audiovisual Thinking?
Audiovisual Thinking is a peer reviewed academic online journal and
pioneering forum where academics and educators can articulate,
conceptualize and disseminate their research about audiovisual culture
through video.
International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, the purpose of
Audiovisual Thinking is to develop and promote academic thinking in and
about all aspects of audiovisuality and audiovisual culture. Advised by
a board of leading academics and thinkers in the fields of
audiovisuality, communication and the media and hosted by Copenhagen
University, the journal seeks to set the standard for academic
audiovisual essays now and in the future. We study, teach and research
the moving image, media and audiovisuality, yet we rarely mediate in
these same forms and media. Audiovisual Thinking hopes to change this.

Video submissions are welcome from all fields of study and, as one would
expect, the main criteria for submissions are that the discussion and
thinking are conveyed through audiovisual means.
Please visit us
onwww.audiovisualthinking.org<http://www.audiovisualthinking.org/>  to
watch academic videos and submit your own.



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Dr. Maura Conway
School of Law and Government
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland

Tel. +353 1 700 6472
(E-Mail.maura.conway /at/ dcu.ie)
Skype. galwaygrrl

Twitter: @TNMConference

Website:http://doras.dcu.ie/view/people/Conway,_Maura.html



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