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Distant Wars VisibleThe Ambivalence of Witnessing$
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Distant Wars Visible: The Ambivalence of Witnessing

Wendy Kozol

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9780816681297

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.001.0001

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Skeptical Documents

Skeptical Documents

Toward an Ethics of Spectatorship

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(p.165) 5 Skeptical Documents
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Distant Wars Visible
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Wendy Kozol

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816681297.003.0006

This chapter analyzes five reparative projects about military conflicts that engage with the affective pleasures and pains of historical witnessing. These projects confront the limits of representation – the selective memories, mediating forces, and often-unrecoverable accounts of suffering that comprise ambivalent witnessing – that, in turn, evince ethical forms of spectatorship.

Keywords:   Visual Witnessing, War on Terror, U.S. militarism, Women’s Human Rights, Photojournalism, Abu Ghraib, Orientalism, Conflict Photography, Humanitarianism, Ethical spectatorship

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