The Aesthetics of Human Rights

Sliwinski, Sharon

doi:10.1080/14735780802696336

Cited by 33 publications

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“…This reference to illegitimacy has little to do with the aestheticized or abstract attitude highlighted by Boltanski (1999) or Sliwinski (2009). Neither is it related to sentimentalised voyeuristic consumption (Silverstone, 2006), nor the acceptance of violence or justification of aggressors' actions.…”

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“Distant” beings or “human” beings: real images of violence and strategies of implication or distancing from victims

Villanueva

2016

Communication & Society

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This work is situated in recent research on the utility or unsuitability of broadcasting factual violence in TV news programmes, as well as the diverse ways of presenting it. Its aim is to discover and make explicit the evaluative-moral mechanisms that sustain the basis of the attitudes of distance vs. implication of audiences to diverse types of factual violence broadcasted in the mass media. On the basis of a discourse analysis of 16 focus groups that were shown violent scenes with diverse degrees of gravity, in a close vs. distant (to participants) geographic context, we describe the discursive strategies that participants use to feel involved in the suffering of the victims of violence or, on the contrary, to detach or estrange themselves. The results show a spontaneous identification and an ethical identification that is related to emotional and moral implication. Additionally, diverse mechanisms of estrangement are evident, such as denying the facts presented in the images and attributing responsibility to the victims. The implications that these strategies have in the moral debate on violence are discussed.

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“…Although we can't talk of responsibility in the sense of a judicial witness, the viewing of suffering can provoke, at the very least, an "impassioned engagement with the images", to take from Sliwinski (2009).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“Distant” beings or “human” beings: real images of violence and strategies of implication or distancing from victims

Villanueva

2016

Communication & Society

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“…As numerous scholars have shown (Bohmer and Shuman 2008;Fassin 2005Fassin , 2007Fassin , 2011Fassin and Rechtman 2010;Jacquemet 2009;Ticktin 2006Ticktin , 2011, the classificatory practices, categories, and aesthetics (Cabot 2013;Johnson 2011;Sliwinski 2009) attached to refugee advocacy produce simplified stereotypes and prototypes (Coutin 2000) of persons with particular kinds of voices. In offering and granting protection, law and its agents render asylum seekers and refugees recognizable as vulnerable victims; how such victimhood is constituted depends also on notions of race, class, gender, country of origin, and other aspects attached to specific refugee cases.…”

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“Refugee Voices”

Cabot

2016

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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This article considers the parallels between ethnographic work and refugee advocacy to show how these knowledge forms seek and yet fail to represent "refugee voices." The predicaments of refugees in Greece have recently captured the attention of the world owing to Greece's crucial position in the 2015 "European refugee crisis," but Greece has long been on the frontlines of refugee reception in the EU. Based on ethnographic research conducted between 2005 and 2013, I analyze the ethnographic logics attached to European advocacy projects surrounding refugees in Greece. I explore their use of tragic tropes, and I argue that ethnographers employ similar tactics to carve out space for marginalized voices. I argue that the representational practices of ethnography and advocacy alike are haunted by various "ghosts": traces of silenced subjects who index both the limits and possibilities of representation. I argue, ultimately, for a humbling of the ethnographer: for a careful consideration of the power of not knowing in our work, and for recognition of the overlaps between ethnographic knowledge and dominant formations of power.

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“…Aunque no se pueda hablar de responsabilidad testimonial en el sentido jurídico, la visión de hechos dolorosos puede suscitar, al menos, un "compromiso apasionado con las imágenes", tomando la idea de Sliwinski (2009).…”

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Seres “humanos” o seres “lejanos”: imágenes de violencia real e implicación/distanciamiento con las víctimas

Villanueva

Castro

2016

Communication & Society

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The Aesthetics of Human Rights

Cited by 33 publications

References 14 publications

“Distant” beings or “human” beings: real images of violence and strategies of implication or distancing from victims

“Distant” beings or “human” beings: real images of violence and strategies of implication or distancing from victims

“Refugee Voices”

Seres “humanos” o seres “lejanos”: imágenes de violencia real e implicación/distanciamiento con las víctimas

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