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Global Corpse Politics - The Obscenity Taboo (Hardcover)
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Global Corpse Politics - The Obscenity Taboo (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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Taboos have long been considered key examples of norms in global
politics, with important strategic effects. Auchter focuses on how
obscenity functions as a regulatory norm by focusing on dead body
images. Obscenity matters precisely because it is applied
inconsistently across multiple cases. Examining empirical cases
including ISIS beheadings, the death of Muammar Qaddafi, Syrian
torture victims, and the fake death images of Osama bin Laden, this
book offers a rich theoretical explanation of the process by which
the taboo surrounding dead body images is transgressed and upheld,
through mechanisms including trigger warnings and media framings.
This corpse politics sheds light on political communities and the
structures in place that preserve them, including the taboos that
regulate purported obscene images. Auchter questions the notion
that the key debate at play in visual politics related to the dead
body image is whether to display or not to display, and instead
narrates various degrees of visibility, invisibility, and
hyper-visibility.
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