Images of Africa : Creation, negotiation and subversion /

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This title challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gallagher, Julia (Lecturer in international relations) (Editor ), Mudimbe, V. Y., 1941- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Society.
Public opinion.
Photojournalism > Political aspects.
Mass media.
Documentary photography.
Civilization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Photographie de presse > Aspect politique > Afrique.
Photographie documentaire > Afrique.
Photojournalism > Political aspects > Africa.
Documentary photography > Africa.
Africa.
Afrique > Opinion publique etrangere.
Afrique > Dans les medias.
Africa > Civilization.
Africa > Foreign public opinion.
Africa > In mass media.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • Mirrors, mimicry and the spectre of a failed state: how the government of Ethiopia deploys image
  • Images of a traditional authority: the case of Ker Kwaro Acholi in northern Uganda
  • The war of images in the Ivoirian post-electoral crisis: the role of news and online blogs in constructing political personas
  • Negotiating narratives of human rights abuses: image management in conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Re-imagining Ethiopia: from campaign imagery to contemporary art
  • Silent bodies and dissident vernaculars: representations of the body in South African fiction and film.

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