Naslov
On unattainable dreams about love

Autori
Miloš, Brigita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
The 10th IUC Postgraduate Course 'Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective': Reclaiming the Future – Feminist Engagements for the 21th Century

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 16.05.2016. - 20.05.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
migration, photography, ways of seing

Sažetak
In this paper I will offer a reading of a newspaper photograph that formed a part of the visual image of the Republic of Croatia during the so-called migrant crisis during the winter of 2015. In this photograph a young officer can be seen holding a migrant child in his arms. The photograph was taken in Tovarnik, at the moment when a group of migrants including the child's parents, were being interviewed as a part of migrant registration protocols. Through my reading of this photograph’s narrative, I want to show the levels of meaning embedded in the selected visual script. I suggest it is an attempt to represent the state as a supportive or maternal figure. Combining the notion of ‘(radical) support’ in the way that Judith Butler presents it in her account “Notes toward a performative theory of assembly”, with L. Berlant’s concept of “emotion in operation” and S. Ruddick’s concept of “maternal thinking”, as well as taking insight from S. Sontag’s discussion about the nature of photography, I will argue in favour of the thesis that the meaningful cargo of the photograph is a dubious attempt by the establishment to inscribe radical love in a repressive context. In other words, I read the photograph/picture as an unattainable dream about love as a radical, public response to horror.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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