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International Relations, New Global Studies, and the Epistemic Power of the Image

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  • Durante Tommaso

    (Department of Arts, The University of Melbourne – Parkville Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia)

Abstract

We live in an ever increasingly globalized and highly mediatized world dominated by images, in which machine learning helps the pervasive real cameras to scan and analyze our daily life. At the same time, visual media technologies and global echo-chambers are able to support revolutions or mobilize protest movements across the globe. Yet, in the field of international relations and new global studies, the dynamics of globalization are still generally approached by means of textual-philosophical investigation and the unit of analysis of the nation-state or the global cities, by looking with suspicion at, if not disregarding, the surplus of value of the image. In challenging some of the basic assumptions of globalization hypothesis, this study addresses the following research question: how has globality been transformed by globalized spatial practices of resistance? Informed by theory and methodologically articulated, this article calls for the epistemic function and power of images in the study of globalization. It also highlights strengths and weaknesses of a visual approach in the meaning-making process of the symbolic and social construction of the common sense of the global in people’s everyday life, under present conditions.

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  • Durante Tommaso, 2021. "International Relations, New Global Studies, and the Epistemic Power of the Image," New Global Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 15(2-3), pages 255-286, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:nglost:v:15:y:2021:i:2-3:p:255-286:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2020-0038
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