Portrayals of Terrorists

Spens, Christiana

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“…Intervisuality is a concept regularly cited in the visual politics scholarship to describe genealogical visual codes and associated discourses as well as the process of analyzing multiple and/or diverse visual genres together (e.g. Callahan, 2020 ; Hall et al, 2013 ; Hansen, 2011 ; Mirzoeff 2001 , 2007 ; Spens, 2018 ). Intervisuality acknowledges ‘the accumulation of meanings across different texts, where one image refers to another, or has its meaning altered by being “read” in the context of other images’ ( Hall et al, 2013 : 222).…”

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“…This means that the polysemic nature of images – that is, that they elicit multiple interpretations – becomes ‘stabilized’ when different images in the same ‘visual system’ reproduce common motifs. However, while intervisuality is often used to describe a visual environment that draws on several visuals (either the same or different genres), it is rarely employed as a distinct methodology ( Spens, 2018 ). Additionally, intervisuality has not yet been used to unpack how security actors in particular draw on multiple visual genres as a ‘vector of power’ that reproduces migration through gendered and racialized power relations ( Achilleos-Sarll, 2020 : 1644).…”

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The (inter)visual politics of border security: Co-constituting gender and race through Frontex’s Risk Analysis

2023

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Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gendered and racialized meanings of migration and border security. Using a feminist postcolonial lens, we develop an intervisual framework for studying how processes of gendering and racialization render subjects, practices and spaces knowable at the intersection between these visuals. We apply this framework to a case study of Frontex’s Risk Analysis Reports (2010–2021) and demonstrate how it is applicable to other security institutions. The intervisual analysis reveals how the migrant Other and (white) European are visually reproduced through: 1) the (in)visibilization of bodies; 2) the ascription and denial of agency; and 3) the spatialization of borders as ‘frontier imaginings’ that oscillate between fortification and expansionism. The intersectional co-constitution of gender and race, we conclude, is central to the visual politics of Frontex, contributing to problematizing migrants and migration and legitimizing violent border practices.

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