Prof Lilie Chouliaraki discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024) with Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson and Roland Bleiker.

Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on the ethical and political complexities of communicating human suffering in the media. She is the author of several influential books, including The Spectatorship of Suffering (2006), The Soft Power of War (ed., 2008), The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-humanitarianism (2013), The Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication (2021), and The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (2022). This is Lilie's second appearance in our Visual Politics Program.

A few years ago she joined our Visual Politics Program with Prof Myria Georgiou to discuss their book The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power (New York University Press, 2022). You can find a video recording on our website.