Images, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2013.
Review article
The Enemy Renarrated: Beyond Culture Clash
Souzana Mizan
; Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract
National Geographic magazine’s visual and verbal representations of “exotic” or “Other” cultures have for more than a century formed people’s opinions and knowledge around the world in relation to these people. This article is an attempt to prove that these representations can never be objective or “purified” from the ideological, social, cultural or historical context of the creator of the images and discourse. Through my analysis of National Geographic’s visual representation of Iranian identity, I interrogate representation and the knowledge it produces and I show that the reading it makes of the world one among many possibilities available.
Keywords
identity; National Geographic; representation; images; ideology
Hrčak ID:
129417
URI
Publication date:
29.11.2013.
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