Apprehending Abu Ghraib

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dc.contributor.authorTaschereau Mamers, Danielle
dc.contributor.supervisorKroker, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-31T16:33:11Z
dc.date.available2009-08-31T16:33:11Z
dc.date.copyright2009en
dc.date.issued2009-08-31T16:33:11Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a critical assessment of the role of photography in representing suffering and death. Drawing on the images of torture from the Abu Ghraib prison, I argue that the ways in which things become visible structure our affective and ethical dispositions, with crucial implications for our ability to attend to the suffering of others. In the first chapter, I examine the political importance of photography in its capacity to differentially represent vulnerable lives. In the second chapter, I illustrate the ways in which the prison photographs made visible the violent exploitation of Iraqi civilians, contrary to the official narrative of liberation offered by the Bush Administration. Finally, in the third chapter, following Judith Butler, I implicate the viewers of images of suffering in order to illustrate their roles in perpetuating norms of visibility, as an opening to the consideration of lives which remain unseen. I conclude that photographs open an important reflective space for considering the differential distribution of vulnerability.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1696
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectphotographyen
dc.subjectAbu Ghraiben
dc.subjectviolenceen
dc.subjectsufferingen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Political Scienceen
dc.titleApprehending Abu Ghraiben
dc.typeThesisen

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