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Peace, Complexity, Visuality

SPRINGER
08 / 2023
9783031382178
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Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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This book argues that we can capitalize on the tolerance of ambiguity-enhancing potentialities inherent in visual images - their non-coherence - and thus increase ournbsp;capability of tolerating ambiguities.nbsp;Studying international relations equals studying ambiguity. The international system is complex,nbsp;and where there is complexity, therenbsp;isnbsp;also ambiguity.nbsp;Crucially, in a world saturated not only with ambiguities but also with visual images, it is mandatory to think ambiguity and visuality together.nbsp;The authors analyzenbsp;the constructive and peaceful potentialities of ambiguities through an exploration of journalistic imagery in the context of post-war Bosnianbsp;and post-siege Sarajevo.The booknbsp;is a theoretically sophisticated, yet accessible, and politically relevant exercise in inter-disciplinary thinking, uniquely combining literature on complexity, ambiguity and visuality thus offering important readings for international relations, peace and conflict research, and security studies.

PVP
155,99