Table Of ContentGlobal Transformations in Media and Communication Research
Visual Imagery and
Human Rights Practice
Edited by Sandra Ristovska
and Monroe Price
A Palgrave/IAMCR Series
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Global Transformations in Media
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Visual Imagery
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Sandra Ristovska Monroe Price
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cknowledgements
This book emerged from a conference titled Honing the Visual:
Evolving Practices in Human Rights Work at the Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in January of 2016.
The conference was made possible by the Provost Interdisciplinary
Seminar Fund, the Annenberg School for Communication, the School
of Social Policy and Practice, the Scholars Program in Culture and
Communication, Perry World House, Cinema Studies, CAMRA,
Comparative Literature, the Center for Media, Data and Society at the
Central European University and the American Austrian Foundation.
Dean Michael Delli Carpini, Dean John Jackson, Prof. Barbie Zelizer,
Laura Schwartz-Henderson, Briar Smith and Alexandra Esenler were
among the key individuals who provided much-needed support and
assistance that made this conference successful.
The wonderful editorial team at Palgrave as well as Claudia Padovani
and Marjan De Bruin, editors of the IAMCR/Palgrave series Global
Transformation in Media and Communication Research, provided out-
standing guidance that brought the book to fruition. Hans Petschar,
Director of the Photo Archives and Graphics Department at the Austrian
National Library, kindly assisted us in identifying the cover photograph
(from the Library’s Marshall Plan archives) and facilitating its use.
Alexandra Sastre with her expert eye for visual culture scholarship was an
invaluable editorial assistant, while Leah Ferentinos and Fran Ferentinos
put their excellent proofreading skills to work on several chapters.
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vi ACkNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank them all for bringing this book to press. And last but not least,
we acknowledge the efforts and patience of our contributing authors
who made this book possible in the first place.
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ontents
1 Images and Human Rights 1
Sandra Ristovska and Monroe Price
Part I Technologies
2 50 Years of Documentation: A Brief History
of the Audiovisual Documentation of the Israeli
Occupation 15
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
3 Drones, Camera Innovations and Conceptions
of Human Rights 35
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
4 A Convergence of Visuals: Geospatial and Open
Source Analysis in Human Rights Documentation 57
Christoph koettl
5 The Rise of GEOINT: Technology, Intelligence
and Human Rights 67
James R. Walker
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6 Technology’s Continuum: Body Cameras, Data
Collection and Constitutional Searches 89
Rebecca Wexler
Part II Platforms
7 Simon Srebnik: Narratives of a Holocaust Survivor 109
Christian Delage
8 Re-archiving Mass Atrocity Records by Involving
Affected Communities in Postwar Bosnia and
Herzegovina 131
Csaba Szilagyi
9 Communicating Justice in Film: The Limitations
of an Unlimited Field 153
Nenad Golčevski
10 Photography as a Platform for Transitional Justice:
Peru’s Case 165
Gabriela Martínez
11 Sexual Violence in the Field of Vision 185
Sharon Sliwinski
12 Art and Human Rights in the Constitutional Court
of South Africa 203
Albie Sachs
Part III Agents
13 A Change of Perspective: Aerial Photography
and “the Right to the City” in a Palestinian
Refugee Camp 213
Claudia Martinez Mansell
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14 Contested Visualities: Courage and Fear
in the Portrayal of Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas 229
Alice Baroni
15 Ubiquitous Witnessing in Human Rights Activism 253
Sam Gregory
16 Answering the Smartphones: Citizen Witness
Activism and Police Public Relations 275
Mary Angela Bock
17 How Newsrooms Use Eyewitness Media 299
Claire Wardle
Part IV Afterword
18 Imaginative Thinking and Human Rights 311
Sandra Ristovska
