Research articles
We have published a number of academic articles and reports over the years that relate to the themes of this blog. You can read and print them from this page, or via the links provided, where available.
David Campbell
- (with Marcus Power) “The Scopic Regime of Africa,” in Observant States: Geopolitics And Visual Culture, edited by Fraser MacDonald, Klaus Dodds and Rachel Hughes (London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming 2010).
- “‘Black Skin and Blood’: Documentary Photography and Santu Mofokeng’s Critique of the Visualization of Apartheid South Africa,” History and Theory 48 (December 2009), 52-58.
- The Visual Economy of HIV/AIDS as a Security Issue, 135 pages, research report for the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative, May 2008. (Available at www.visual-hivaids.org)
- “Geopolitics and Visual Culture: Sighting the Darfur Conflict 2003-05,” Political Geography 26: 4 (2007), 357-382. (Available at http://www.david-campbell.org/photography/)
- “Horrific Blindness: Images of Death in Contemporary Media,” Journal of Cultural Research 8:1 (2004), 55-74.
- “Salgado and the Sahel: Documentary Photography and the Imaging of Famine,” in Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning, edited by Francois Debrix and Cindy Weber (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 69-96.
DJ Clark
- Representing the Majority World: Famine, Photojournalism and the Changing Visual Economy (PhD dissertation, Durham University, 2009).
- “The Production of a Contemporary Famine Image: The Image Economy, Indigenous Photographers and the Case of Mekanic Philipos,” Journal of International Development 16, 693-704.
Kate Manzo
- “Imaging Humanitarianism: NGO Identity and the Iconography of Childhood,” Antipode 40, 4 (2008), 632-657.
- “An Extension of Colonialism? Development Education, Images and the Media,” Development Education Journal 12 (2006), 9-12.
