Affective Imageries - by Marcelle Trote Martins & Marcelle Trote Martins (Hardcover)

About the Book

Affective Imageries examines the political use of images depicting wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict contexts. It explores how poetry, photography, and art construct affective images. The book analyses the creation and mobilisation of these images, shaping perception and international response, particularly in Timor-Leste.

Book Synopsis

Affective Imageries examines the political use of images depicting wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict contexts. It explores how poetry, photography, and art construct affective images. The book analyses the creation and mobilisation of these images, shaping perception and international response, particularly in Timor-Leste.

Review Quotes

ldquo;An analytically sophisticated exploration of memorialisation and the #39;body-in-suffering#39; through an empirically rich study into the case of Timor-Leste. This book feeds into and builds on contemporary debates around the body in/and global politics, affect, and visual politics while illustrating the power of images and poetry towards underlining how #39;we can visually access suffering beyond the visceral images of violence.#39;rdquo;

ldquo;In this thought-provoking volume, Trote Martins brings together key theoretical arguments on brutal forms of violence, atrocities, wounded bodies, and horror and their relation to visual politics to develop her own concept of lsquo;bodies-in-sufferingrsquo;. Trote Martins compellingly and poignantly applies the notion of lsquo;bodies-in-sufferingrsquo; to a series of highly visible or more occluded massacres in Timor-Leste in the 1990s to deploy an important analysis of what she calls the ldquo;affective potential of sufferingrdquo; in global politics. Such an affective potential, enabled through visual or imagined apprehensions of wounded, pained, maimed, disappeared, or pulverized bodies, is crucial to helping human subjects, irrespective of where they are located, to develop a salutary ethical connection to others in distress and to respond to extreme modes of political violence. Scholars of politics interested in questions of violence, affect and emotions, visual representation, and global ethics will be eager to read this excellently crafted study.rdquo;

The independence of Timor-Leste was aided significantly by ruptures in Indonesia#39;s attempted control over images emerging from the occupied territory, most notable in the case of Max Stahl#39;s footage of the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre. Affective Imageries of Timor-Leste offers detailed analysis of visual representations of suffering during the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste, providing a compelling account the role of images in the independence movement, and in mobilising international solidarity.

About the Author

Marcelle Trote Martins is a Teaching Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University.