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Visual Securitization : Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Massari, Alice.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Visual Securitization
  • Preface
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Contributions
  • 1.2 Why H́ow Do We See Refugees ́Matters
  • 1.3 Research Design
  • 1.3.1 The Syrian Crisis
  • 1.4 The Non-governmental Organizations
  • 1.5 Multi-modal Analysis
  • 1.5.1 Images Collection and Classification
  • 1.5.2 Multi-sited Fieldwork
  • 1.6 Methodological Considerations
  • 1.7 The Content of this Book
  • References
  • Part I: The Theory and Methodology of Visual Securitization
  • Chapter 2: Humanitarianism, Securitization and Humanitarian Communication
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Humanitarianism and Its Complicated Relationship with Politics
  • 2.3 NGOs and Global Governance
  • 2.3.1 NGOs and Global Governance: A General Overview
  • 2.3.2 Humanitarian NGOs Role in Global Governance
  • 2.3.2.1 The Features of Contemporary Humanitarianism or 'New Humanitarianism'
  • 2.3.2.2 Advocacy
  • 2.3.2.3 Humanitarian Governance
  • 2.4 Securitization and Humanitarianism
  • 2.4.1 Security, Securitization and the Copenhagen School
  • 2.4.2 Securitization, Societal Security and Human Security
  • 2.4.3 Securitization and Humanitarianism
  • 2.5 Humanitarian Communication
  • 2.5.1 Humanitarian NGOs and Marketing
  • 2.5.2 Humanitarian Communication
  • 2.5.2.1 Visual Representation of Refugees
  • 2.6 To Be Continued…
  • References
  • Chapter 3: A Visual Approach
  • 3.1 Framing the Field
  • 3.2 A Semiotic Analysis of Images
  • 3.3 Visual Social Semiotics
  • 3.4 The Representational Meaning
  • 3.4.1 Narrative Structure
  • 3.4.2 Conceptual Structure
  • 3.5 The Interactive Meaning
  • 3.5.1 Contact
  • 3.5.2 Distance
  • 3.5.3 Perspective
  • 3.6 The Compositional Meaning
  • 3.6.1 Position and Information Value
  • 3.6.2 Salience and Framing
  • 3.6.3 Modality
  • 3.7 Iconography.
  • 3.8 Photography, Power and 'Claims of Truth'
  • 3.9 Polysemy and the Possibility of Different Readings
  • References
  • Part II: Humanitarian Representation and Migration Governance
  • Chapter 4: Humanitarian NGOs and Global Governance: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand Humanitarian NGOs
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Save the Children
  • 4.2.1 Save the Children and Society
  • 4.2.2 Save the Children and Syrian Displacement
  • 4.3 Oxfam
  • 4.3.1 Oxfam and Society
  • 4.3.2 Oxfam and Syrian Displacement
  • 4.4 CARE
  • 4.4.1 CARE and Society
  • 4.4.2 CARE and Syrian Displacement
  • 4.5 Médecins Sans Frontières
  • 4.5.1 MSF and Society
  • 4.5.2 MSF and Syrian Displacement
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Threatening - The Refugee as a Threat
  • 5.1 Introduction: The Refugee as a Threat
  • 5.2 Visual Threats
  • 5.2.1 Vectors Without Goal (Fig. 5.1)
  • 5.2.2 The Rhetoric of Emergency (Fig. 5.2)
  • 5.2.3 Boats, Refugees at Sea, and Rubber Dinghies (Fig. 5.3)
  • 5.2.4 Conceptual Structures (Fig. 5.4)
  • 5.2.5 The Other
  • 5.3 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Threatened, the Refugee as the Referent Object
  • 6.1 Introduction - The Refugee as Referent Object
  • 6.2 Protection and Securitization
  • 6.3 Visually Threatened - Human Security and Securitization
  • 6.3.1 Pity (Fig. 6.1)
  • 6.3.2 Victimization (Figs. 6.2, 6.3)
  • 6.3.3 Infantilization
  • 6.3.4 Suffering, Physical Pain and Death (Fig. 6.4)
  • 6.3.5 Innocence
  • 6.3.6 The Savior Hero (Fig. 6.5)
  • 6.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: The (In)Visibility of Migrants
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 The Impalpable Importance of Invisibility
  • 7.2.1 The Invisibility of Politics
  • 7.2.2 The Invisibility of Protest
  • 7.2.3 The Invisibility of Threat (Fig. 7.1)
  • 7.2.3.1 Bombing, Weapons, Tanks, and Soldiers
  • 7.2.3.2 Top Protection Issues.
  • 7.2.4 Refugees Voices: Silence and Invisibility
  • 7.3 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Conclusion
  • 8.1 Transnational Humanitarian NGOs and Global Governance
  • 8.2 Transnational Humanitarian NGOs and Securitization
  • 8.2.1 On the Possibility of 'Good' Securitization
  • 8.3 Glimmers
  • References.

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