Ett kosmopolitiskt tillstånd kräver ett avstånd : en undersökning av hur människor i nöd representeras i fotografier av Läkare Utan Gränser år 2009
(2009) KOVK01 20092Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Abstract
- This study iams to show how the non-governmental organisation Doctors Without Borders represent people in suffering and distress in 2009. The three photographs chosen are located on a photo blog called "Voices from the field" on the organisation's international web page. The basis for the analysis is a hypothesis that these represented narratives can be interpreted as having a moral relationship between the people represented and the spectator. Inspired by the Aristotelian interpretative praxis of fronesis I combine a social constructivist and a normative approach.
The theoretical framework consists of a combination of a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective and a media and communications theory influenced by moral philosophy.
I show... (More) - This study iams to show how the non-governmental organisation Doctors Without Borders represent people in suffering and distress in 2009. The three photographs chosen are located on a photo blog called "Voices from the field" on the organisation's international web page. The basis for the analysis is a hypothesis that these represented narratives can be interpreted as having a moral relationship between the people represented and the spectator. Inspired by the Aristotelian interpretative praxis of fronesis I combine a social constructivist and a normative approach.
The theoretical framework consists of a combination of a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective and a media and communications theory influenced by moral philosophy.
I show via my interpretations that the three pictures can be seen and understood as constructing a moral obligation towards the spectator through the workings of discourse - in these cases a moral discourse that includes a photographic one. Through choice of subject matter, composition and editorial techniques and conventions these visual narratives construct a form of realism that is the foundation for the story telling of these people and their hardships. The pictures offer opportunities for developing a cosmopolitian identity - but always within a moral discourse. (Less)
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- author
- Sjunnesson, Joakim LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- KOVK01 20092
- year
- 2009
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- normative, fronesis, critical discourse analysis, social constructivism, discourse, cosmopolitan identity, moral
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1545054
- date added to LUP
- 2010-05-03 10:30:45
- date last changed
- 2010-05-03 10:30:45
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