Visual Politics Blog
I use this blog to provide short and accessible reflections on my main research passion: understanding the role of images and emotions in politics. I define this domain in a broad sense: as creative attempts to examine how visual and sensory factors shape how we perceive and act out the political world. Occasionally there will be blogs that transcend this theme.
Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualising Peace
This is a blog summary of an essay that Emma Hutchison and Roland Bleiker wrote and that has now come out after Emma’s passing: a chapter on Humanitarian Photography for Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield and Jolyon Mitchell (eds), Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (Bloomsbury 2024).
Art-Based Methods for Gender Justice
By Bronte Bratton and Pathiranage Dona Subodha Dilhari
How do photos of our work make a difference?
By Roland Bleiker, Bronte Bratton and Emma Hutchison
The Impact of Images: On the Identifiable Victim Effect
By Roland Bleiker, Bronte Bratton, Tiffany Hales, Emma Hutchison
Visual Violence
Brad Evans speaks with Roland Bleiker. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series.
