Logos in Global Summitry
Journal: Alternatives Global Local Political
Year: 2025

The study of international relations (IR) has undergone an ‘aesthetic turn’, placing previously marginalized visual evidence at the heart of our understanding of IR. Although researchers have embraced both moving and still images as evidence, the existing literature has almost entirely overlooked logos. This article extends this analysis by focussing on the case of one of the central mechanisms of global governance: the summit meetings of the Group of 7 (G7). We argue that the creation of annual