Protest movements and the spectacle of death: From urban places to video spaces. (original) (raw)

Abstract

Much scholarship has looked at how radical politics and its symbolism are framed and distorted by the mass media, while less attention has been devoted to how the symbolic imagery of violence and death is used in activists' self-representations. This chapter provides one such alternative angle by probing how ''visual protest materials'' are creatively used in activists' own videos to pass on stories of communion and contestation.

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