In Projecting Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive
account of an unusual project produced by the British
government’s Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the
beginning of the twentieth century—a series of lantern slide
lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach
schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel
like an imperial citizen. Through detailed archival research and
close readings, Moser elucidates the impact of this vast collection
of photographs documenting the land and peoples of the British
Empire, circulated between 1902 and 1945 in classrooms from Canada
to Hong Kong, from the West Indies to Australia. Moser argues that
these photographs played a central role in the invention and
representation of imperial citizenship. She shows how citizenship
became a photographable and teachable subject by tracing the
intended readings of the images that the committee hoped to impart
to viewers and analyzing how spectators may have used their
encounters with these photographs for protest and resistance.
Interweaving political and economic history, history of pedagogy,
and theories of citizenship with a consideration of the aesthetic
and affective dimensions of viewing the lectures, Projecting
Citizenship offers important insights into the social inequalities
and visual language of colonial rule.
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