Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives

Kudžmaitė, Gintarė; Pauwels, Luc

doi:10.1080/14650045.2020.1749838

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“…In the recent years authors have identified the "aesthetic turn" in border studies, particularly with the research of visual representation of borders in photographs, documentary films, videos, as well as maps and other visual objects deployed to visualize the borders (Moze and Spiegel 2022;Kudžmaitė and Pauwels 2020;Boyce 2020;Ellison and Van Isacker 2021). According to Moze and Spiegel, from the perspective of geographical studies, "the aesthetic turn in border studies refers to a variety of empirical, conceptual and methodological interests in prompting attention to how processes of rendering visible/invisible are to be understood" (Moze and Spiegel 2022, 3).…”

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Images of (in)security: Visualizing borders, migrants and control in Serbia's news media

Krstić

2024

J Regional Security

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Media images of borders and their control have been one of the most dominant frames in reporting on the migrant crisis in European media and the negative coverage of the topic of migrants, presenting them as a threat to security and public health dominates media narratives around the world. This paper examines the way migrants and refugees have been portrayed on the borders of Serbia, a transit country alongside the Western Balkans migration corridor. The mixed method analysis is based on 300 images published in relevant national and regional print media and their online versions from 2015 until 2020. The results show that the visual depiction of walls, wires, control, law and order, modern technological equipment, security providers, and important political authorities have been often intensified with sensational headlines and tabloid coverage and at the same time confronted with images framing migrants as violent and deviant, threatening borders, people, and security.

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Images of (in)security: Visualizing borders, migrants and control in Serbia's news media

Krstić

2024

J Regional Security

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“…Recently, scholars have seen the potential of visual methods to challenge migrant (Lenette, 2019;Smets & Ahenkona, 2023) and border (in)visibility (Kudžmaitė & Pauwels, 2022) in a collaborative way. In this regard, and following Kudžmaitė and Pauwels (2022), PF can make geopolitical and symbolic borders more visible while eliciting information and comments from the participants about their border-related experiences, encouraging them to produce their own data and find innovative ways to disseminate their knowledge through film. Like digital media production among refugeebackground youth, PF can provide a set of "embodied multimodal literacies" (Michalovich, 2021, p. 30) that communicate across different transnational and local spaces and expand social networks.…”

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Doing Digital Migration Studies:

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Ponzanesi

2024

Doing Digital Migration Studies

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ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: challenging the premise of face-to-face proximity in sustaining relationships. Global Networks, 16(2), 133-144. Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway. Duke University Press. Beck, U. (2016). The metamorphosis of the world: How climate change is transforming our world. Polity. Beck, U. (2010). The cosmopolitan manifesto. In G. Wallace Brown & D. Held (Eds.).The cosmopolitan reader (pp. 217-228). Polity Press.

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“…Border scholars have widely turned to Rancière's aesthetic contributions for exploring border representations as well as the broader sensory and axiological dimensions of contemporary borders. This “aesthetic turn” has been generating rich literary research on borders in novels (Schimanski, 2015) and poetry (Paül & Trillo‐Santamaría, 2015), but also probed into visual representations of borders – not only as objects of critical inquiry but also as innovative methods of investigation (Kudžmaitė & Pauwels, 2020). From photos of migration (Boyce, 2020; Ellison & Van Isacker, 2021) to documentary films and beyond, visuality is deeply implicated in shaping hegemonic bordering forces as well as in creating counter‐hegemonic borderscapes and “alternative viewings of the geopolitical” (Holland, 2020, p. 1).…”

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The aesthetic turn in border studies: Visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion

Moze

Spiegel

2022

Geography Compass

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In recent years, critical border studies have developed sophisticated concepts and methodologies for exploring the multifaceted spatialities, sociologies and temporalities of contemporary borders. In this article, we consider how the “aesthetic turn” that has gained prominence in the scholarship can further inform thinking in border studies. Specifically, we focus on the role of the visual in the construction as well as subversion of borders, suggesting possible avenues for future critical aesthetics‐engaged research on COVID‐19 era border reconfigurations. To do so, we first briefly outline the theoretical evolution of border studies, paying attention to recent conceptualisations of borders as dynamic processes of social and spatial differentiation. We then build on the borderscapes concept to unpack research on border aesthetics, with particular attention to the heterogeneous roles played by visual objects such as maps, photographs and videos in shaping both hegemonic and counter‐hegemonic processes of bordering. Finally, we bring these contributions into discussion with recent insights on the COVID‐19 pandemic, sketching several ways to advance aesthetic concepts and methodologies in academic research on borderscapes that are emerging with, and will likely outlast, the pandemic. We suggest that border studies and affiliated sub‐fields can gain useful insights from attending more explicitly and robustly to dynamic visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion.

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Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives

Cited by 14 publications

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Images of (in)security: Visualizing borders, migrants and control in Serbia's news media

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