CRSP Talk

Aesthetic Approaches: Visualizing security studies

Episode Summary

On this episode, we’re talking about visualizing security studies and how scholars are working with different aesthetic approaches to research. Our panel of guests includes Sara Matthews, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Brett Story. Though their projects are quite distinct, what our guests have in common is their turn to visual representation as a way of thinking about security.

Episode Notes

Please find a partial transcript of this episode HERE

About our guests in this episode:

Brett Story is an assistant professor of Image Arts at Ryerson University. She is also a documentary filmmaker and geographer. Her work focuses on issues of state violence and social control. Specifically on the carceral state and geographies of the prison industrial complex. 

Click here for a link to Brett's film A Prison in Twelve Landscapes. 

Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Nayrouz is interested in visual politics, place-making and spatial politics in the context of Israel and Palestine. 

Click here for a link to more information about her manuscript The Art of Unsettling Visual Politics: Decolonizing the Palestinian Landscape After the Wall. 

Sara Matthews is an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her work  explores the relations between visual culture and martial politics. 

Click here for a link to Sara's work "The Cultural Life of Drones". 

 

Contributors to this episode's production:

Avery Moore Kloss - Host and Producer

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Sara Matthews  - Executive Producer and Panel Guest

Ana Visan - Planning and Research Support
 

Support and Funding for this episode:

This episode is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Wilfrid Laurier University.

 

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