Representing the Experience of War and Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Visual Criminology

Description

This book explores how the experience of war and related atrocities tend to be visually expressed and how such articulations and representations are circulated and consumed. Each chapter of this volume examines how an image can contribute to a richer understanding of the experience of war and atrocity and thus they contribute to the burgeoning field of the "criminology of war". Topics include the destruction of war in oppositional cultural forms - comparing the Nazi period with the ISIS destruction of Palmyra - and the visual aesthetics of violence deployed by Jihadi terrorism. The contributors are a multi-disciplinary team drawn mainly from criminology but also sociology, international relations, gender studies, English and the visual arts. This book will advance this field in new directions with refreshing, original work. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction (Ronnie Lippens)....Pages 1-15 Georges Bataille’s Paleolithic Cave Art and the Human Condition (Patrick Van Calster)....Pages 17-43 The Aesthetics of Violence (David Polizzi)....Pages 45-71 Images of Atrocity: From Victimhood to Redemption and the Implications for a (Narrative) Victimology (Sandra Walklate)....Pages 73-92 Fathers and Sons: Loss and Truth in War Films from Bosnia and Sri Lanka (Dubravka Zarkov, Neloufer De Mel, Rada Drezgic)....Pages 93-121 Implicit Criminologies in the Filmic Representations of Genocide (Mark Bostock)....Pages 123-151 Prometheus and the Degenerate: Arno Breker, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon’s Extreme Realism (Mark Featherstone)....Pages 153-177 The Separate System? A Conversation on Collaborative Artistic Practice with Veterans-in-Prison (Emma Murray, Katie Davies, Emily Gee)....Pages 179-201 Performing Atrocity: Staging Experiences of Violence and Conflict (Will McGowan)....Pages 203-225 Competing to Control the Post-conflict Present: Articulating Victimhood in Exhibitions in Northern Ireland (Matthew Jackson)....Pages 227-251 Back Matter ....Pages 253-261