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DisasterlandDisaster Iconography: Victims, Rescue Workers, and Hazards

Disasterland: Disaster Iconography: Victims, Rescue Workers, and Hazards [In our image-saturated world, where the mass media produces representations of disasters as fast as they occur, images convey as much meaning as discourse does. “Images have effect; they do something that words do not. And the discourse on images and icons can only take convoluted ways to explain its intention. For if discourse were able to say everything that an image can, it would take the place of images and would have the superiority of being able to theorize it” (Mondzain, Image, icône, économie. Les sources byzantines de l’imaginaire contemporain. Paris: Le Seuil, 1996: 19). It therefore becomes essential to understand the representations that “natural” disasters and subsequent rescue efforts give rise to, and take a moment to analyze how this world displays itself and represents its specificities. Just like words, descriptive processes, and practices, representations and images constantly help to shape and redefine the boundaries of this world and the tensions running through it.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

DisasterlandDisaster Iconography: Victims, Rescue Workers, and Hazards

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. Based on a translation from the French language edition: Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes «naturelles» by Sandrine Revet Copyright © Editions de la Maison des Sciences de L'Homme 2018 All Rights Reserved
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978-3-030-41581-5
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53 –80
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10.1007/978-3-030-41582-2_3
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[In our image-saturated world, where the mass media produces representations of disasters as fast as they occur, images convey as much meaning as discourse does. “Images have effect; they do something that words do not. And the discourse on images and icons can only take convoluted ways to explain its intention. For if discourse were able to say everything that an image can, it would take the place of images and would have the superiority of being able to theorize it” (Mondzain, Image, icône, économie. Les sources byzantines de l’imaginaire contemporain. Paris: Le Seuil, 1996: 19). It therefore becomes essential to understand the representations that “natural” disasters and subsequent rescue efforts give rise to, and take a moment to analyze how this world displays itself and represents its specificities. Just like words, descriptive processes, and practices, representations and images constantly help to shape and redefine the boundaries of this world and the tensions running through it.]

Published: Apr 29, 2020

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