Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Leste [Hardcover]

Affective Imageries: Visual Politics of Wounded Bodies in Timor-Lesteanalyzes the political mobilization of images of wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict societies. The book goes beyond traditional analyses of visual politics to offer a new perspective on the construction of affective imageries by considering the importance of poems, photographs and artworks, and calling attention to other ways in which bodies can be affected by conflicts beyond the debate over the physical wounds of war. Connecting debates on visual politics affects and memory studies, and drawing lessons from the East Timorese case, Marcelle Trote Martins reveals how affective imageries are created and mobilized, determining the status of the bodies shown in the images, and the kind of (international) attention they merit.Affective Imageries examines the political use of images depicting wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict contexts. It explores how poetry, photography, and art construct affective images. The book analyses the creation and mobilisation of these images, shaping perception and international response, particularly in Timor-Leste.Marcelle Trote Martins is a Teaching Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University.

An analytically sophisticated exploration of memorialisation and the 'body-in-suffering' through an empirically rich study into the case of Timor-Leste. This book feeds into and builds on contemporary debates around the body in/and global politics, affect, and visual politics while illustrating the power of images and poetry towards underlining how 'we can visually access suffering beyond the visceral images of violence.' Kandida Purnell, Richmond American University of London

In this thought-provoking volume, Trote Martins brings together key theoretical arguments on brutal forms of violence, atrocities, wounded bodies, and horror and their relation to visual politics to develop her own concept of bodies-in-suffering. Trote Martins coml3{