Leading with the Image: A Visual Provocation (Spectacle)

• In Event: Poster Session 2

Abstract

Michelle Brown (2017) has proposed that “[h]ow we understand and configure the present asks that we think expansively about what it might mean to pursue an open-ended future, starting with our foundations: the image of crime.” Photographs, in particular, are records of events of the past, but they also create, open up and unlock a “language of possibility” (Jurovics 2013 (cited in Brisman 2017)). The images in this “poster,” produced by a diverse array of scholars, researchers, and practitioners, attempt to develop and communicate (with) this “language of possibility.” To do so—to place primacy on the images, themselves—we exhibit our photographs with minimal supporting text. Viewers will be asked to engage with these images as images. Their subject matter relates variously to the themes of protest, resistance, spectacle, and/or transgression.

Authors

• Michael Fiddler, University of Greenwich

• Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University

• Katherine Biber, University of Technology Sydney

• Reece Burns, Edge Hill University

• Elaine Campbell, Newcastle University

• Anna Di Ronco, University of Essex

• Bill McClanahan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Katarina M. McGuire, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Rita Shah, Eastern Michigan University

• Sara Skott, Mid Sweden University

• Alison Young, University of Melbourne