Visual Theaters of Suffering : Constituting the Western Spectator in the Age of the Humanitarian World Politics
Journal: Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja
Year: 2016

Visual images picturing suffering of others are in many ways forceful; they move their spectators emotionally and politically. Images of wars, crisis and suffering communicate humanity, the peril it is in, as well as the need to protect it and to alleviate suffering. Emotive images of bodily suffering affect the understanding of not only the immediate crisis they depict but of the surrounding world, the position of the spectators of the images, as well as the position of the spectated (suffering