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Visual Politics in the Global South

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Editors:
  1. Anastasia Veneti

    1. Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

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  2. Maria Rovisco

    1. School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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  • Is the first comprehensive work to explore visual politics in the Global South
  • Makes an innovative and distinctive contribution to political communication and visual communication studies
  • Analyses the significance of the visual as a tool of political communication in governance

Part of the book series: Political Campaigning and Communication (PCC)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction to Visual Politics in the Global South

    • Anastasia Veneti, Maria Rovisco
    Pages 1-26

  3. Campaigns, Governance, and Visual Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Playing with Accents in the Khede Kasra Campaign in Lebanon: Multimodality in Visual Politics

      • Diane Riskedahl
      Pages 29-48

    3. Elections and Social Media Cultures: Politics, Women and Visuals in West Bengal, India

      • Rituparna Banerjee
      Pages 49-72

    4. Visualizing Hegemony and Resistance: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of “Covid-19 Hero” on Chinese Social Media

      • Yu Xiang
      Pages 73-92

    5. The Visual Construction of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Populist Communication on Facebook

      • Julio Juárez-Gámiz, Cosette Celecia Pérez
      Pages 93-120

    6. Los Pinos, a Presidential Residence: Farándula Politics and Populism 2.0 in Mexican Visual Culture

      • Nasheli Jiménez del Val
      Pages 121-144

    7. Representing Change and Continuity: A Visual Analysis of Political Television Advertising for the Constitutional Plebiscite of 2020 in Chile

      • Pablo Matus, Catalina Echeverría
      Pages 145-168

    8. Mapping the Formats and Significance of Signs and Meaning in Political Campaigns in Ghanaian Elections

      • Kobby Mensah, Albert James Tayman, Zakaria Tanko Musah
      Pages 169-191

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 323-331
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About this book

The role of the visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with the current social media landscape. It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by geo-politics and a power dynamics in which the Global North dominates the South (the cultural imperialism argument). However, scant attention has been paid to theoretical, methodological, and empirically grounded approaches to visual politics produced by scholars working in the Global South. Little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the visual. Against this background, this project aims to examine visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics (e.g., social movements, activism, grassroots politics, civil society initiatives). This volume examines visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics. It will be of interest to both researchers and students interested in the study of visual politics from various disciplinary lens (media and communication, anthropology, politics, and sociology). 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

    Anastasia Veneti

  • School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Maria Rovisco

About the editors

Anastasia Veneti is Principal Academic at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University. Her research lays at the intersection of media and politics, including political communication, digital political campaigning, media framing, protests and social movements, visual communication and photojournalism. Her work has been published in edited volumes and academic journals. Works include:  The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece. Political Communication and Journalism in Times of Crisis (co-edited collection, Emerald, 2020), Visual Political Communication (co-edited collection, Palgrave, 2019), Political Advertising and Citizens’ Perceptions (Nisos, 2009 in Greek), special issue on Picturing Protest: Visuality, visibility and the public sphere, in Visual Communication (co-edited, 2017). She is co-convenor of the Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, BU.

Maria Rovisco is Associate Professor in Sociology at the School at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, UK.  She was previously a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. She has research interests in cosmopolitanism, new activisms, citizenship, migrant and refugee arts, and visual culture. Among her books are the co-edited volumes: Taking the Square: Mediated Dissent and Occupations of Public Space (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere (Routledge, 2014), The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2017). Twitter handle: @mariarovisco

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