{"product_id":"citizens-of-photography-9781478020004","title":"Citizens of Photography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitizens of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through contemporary ethnographic investigations of photographic practice in Nicaragua, Nigeria, Greece, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia, the PhotoDemos Collective traces the resonances between political representation and photographic representation. The authors emphasize photography as lived practice and how photography’s performative, transformative, and transgressive possibilities facilitate the articulation of new identities. They analyze photography ranging from family albums and social media to state and public archives, showing how it points to new destinations in the context of social movements, the aftermath of atrocity and civil war, and the legacies of past injustices. By foregrounding photography’s open-ended and contingent nature and its ability to subvert and reconfigure conventional political identi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ambitious in its theoretical and ethnographic reach, this vital volume robustly explores the unruly political potentialities of photography while laying out multiple directions for a future anthropology of photography. \u003ci\u003eCitizens of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark book.” -- Karen Strassler, author of * Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Photographing; or, the Future of the Image \/ Christopher Pinney  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. “The Truth Is in the Soil”—The Political Work of Photography in Northern Sri Lanka \/ Vidhya Buthpitiya  63\u003cbr\u003e 2. Visual Citizenship in Cambodia—From Apocalypse to Visual “Political Emancipation” \/ Sokphea Young  111\u003cbr\u003e 3. Photography, Citizenship, and Accusatory Memory in the Greek Crisis \/ Konstantinos Kalantzis  150\u003cbr\u003e 4. Insurgent Archive—The Photographic Making and Unmaking of the Nicaraguan Revolutionary State \/ Ileana L. Selejan  192\u003cbr\u003e 5. “We Are Moving with Technology”—Photographing Voice and Belonging in Nigeria \/ Naluwembe Binaisa  234\u003cbr\u003e 6. Citizenship, Contingency, and Futurity—Photographic Ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh \/ Christopher Pinney  273\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  319\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  337\u003cbr\u003e Index  339","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409012629847,"sku":"9781478020004","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020004.jpg?v=1730505087","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/citizens-of-photography-9781478020004","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}