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Sensible Politics

Visualizing International Relations

By (author) William A. Callahan
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, United States
Published: 5th Mar 2020
Dimensions: w 151mm h 230mm d 25mm
Weight: 595g
ISBN-10: 0190071745
ISBN-13: 9780190071745
Barcode No: 9780190071745
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Synopsis
Visual images are everywhere in international politics. But how are we to understand them? In Sensible Politics, William A. Callahan uses his expertise in theory and filmmaking to explore not only what visuals mean, but also how visuals can viscerally move and connect us in "affective communities of sense." The book's rich analysis of visual images (photographs, film, art) and visual artifacts (maps, veils, walls, gardens, cyberspace) shows how critical scholarship needs to push beyond issues of identity and security to appreciate the creative politics of social-ordering and world-ordering. Here "sensible politics" isn't just sensory, but looks beyond icons and ideology to the affective politics of everyday life. It challenges our Eurocentric understanding of international politics by exploring the meaning and impact of visuals from Asia and the Middle East. Sensible Politics offers a unique approach to politics that allows us to not only think visually, but also feel visually-and creatively act visually for a multisensory appreciation of politics.

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Together with recent contributions to visual IR, Callahan's book proves how insightful a broader perspective on visual artefacts is. * Gabi Schlag, University of Tubingen, Germany, International Affairs * Sensible Politics is a provocative, intellectually and visually stimulating book that convincingly situates the visual at the heart of global politics. Callahan brings his deep knowledge of Chinese culture and history to show how visual politics is a global phenomenon that cannot be understood without taking a multisensory, interdisciplinary approach. Engaging with Callahan's work is a sensory experience in itself: the interplay of text, image, and touch of
the page draws the reader in, with each chapter stepping the reader through the argument as one might hop across sunken stones in a memorial garden lake, challenging, exciting, and enticing the reader to see what is on the other side of each chapter. This book is an excellent example of what critical inquiry
can accomplish outside of the confines of conventional academic practice. * Constance Duncombe, H - Diplo * Sensible Politics is the one book I've read on visual politics that applies critical thinking on what the visual can do - rupture, appeal to the senses, disorient - to the written word. The written word exists in 'dynamic dyad' with the images in the book, while the structure and the chapters interline to create a multisensory experience in reading it: Callahan is not just telling us about such dyadic interactions, he is showing us. * Professor Sophie Harman, LSE Review of Books * William A. Callahan offers an impressive and genuinely interdisciplinary tour-de-force of visual global politics. Reaching beyond the Western cannon and beyond a conventional focus on images and icons, he compellingly shows how the visual can-and should-be seen as a much broader phenomena that fundamentally shapes how we view and conduct global politics." -Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland