Images of Africa : creation, negotiation and subversion / edited by Julia Gallagher ; with a foreword by V.Y. Mudimbe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallagher, Julia (Lecturer in international relations), editor.

Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941-2025, writer of foreword.

Series:

Manchester International Relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary photography--Africa.

Documentary photography.

Photojournalism--Political aspects--Africa.

Photojournalism.

Africa--In mass media.

Africa.

Africa--Foreign public opinion.

Africa--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is about images of Africa; who creates them, how they are manipulated, and what the effects are for African actors and their relationships in the wider world. While the role of image in international politics is taken seriously by practitioners and academics, no one has yet produced a systematic account of the particularly important role it plays in the relationships between Africa and the wider world. This book seeks to do this by focusing on the politics of image and Africa, broadly defined to encompass the way political elites, media organisations and individual writers and artists together construct and project images of the continent. The book explores the dynamic processes of image creation in an imaginative way. First, it brings together different disciplinary approaches. Second, it draws on experiences of a wide range of actors and forms of image, including central governments, traditional authorities, journalists, individual artists and authors. Finally, the book brings together ten researchers currently engaged in fieldwork-based research across Africa who together present an empirically rich, fresh take on an important topic.

Contents:

7 The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas8 Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; 9 Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art; 10 Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719098086

0719098084

9781781708491

1781708495

9780719098093

0719098092

OCLC:

980805554