Nine interdisciplinary essays employ, explore, and critique the analytical category and the practical stakes of visibility.
Not only does visibility matter to politics, but it is an increasingly intrinsic constituent element and a crucial asset of it. Accordingly, the challenge to social science is that of understanding how the new institutional, urban, and technological settings are reshaping the organization of the visible.
Ranging from urban public space to the new media and social media platforms, a team of distinguished scholars and researchers here addresses a vast terrain of inquiry by joining together original theoretical elaboration with careful empirical studies. The result is a thoroughly interdisciplinary endeavor, conducted with passion and insight. The New Politics of Visibility comprises nine original interdisciplinary chapters that analyze topical areas in the newly emerging modes of governance and society. The transformations of urban space and the working of new media form a core concern recurring through many of the essays but is by no means the sole topic, as other essays address the politics of visibility in crucial cultural spheres, including gender relations and professional life.
By:
Andrea Mubi Brighenti Edited by:
Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento) Imprint: Intellect Books Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: New edition Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN:9781789385748 ISBN 10: 1789385741 Pages: 210 Publication Date:27 October 2022 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures Introduction: Issues in the Visible – Andrea Mubi Brighenti 1. The Political Geometries of Visibility: Ranks of Seeing in the Digital Age – Tali Hatuka 2. Coded Visions: Datafied Visibilities and the Production of Political Futures – Mikkel Flyverbom and Frederik Schade 3. Urban Information Environmentalism – Malcolm McCullough 4. Mediated Visibility and Recognition: A Taxonomy – João C. Magalhães and Jun Yu 5. The Democratization of Visibility Capital: Face in the Age of Its Automated Technical Reproducibility – Nathalie Heinich 6. Rewilding the City: Urban Life and Resistance across and beyond Visibility – AbdouMaliq Simone and Morten Nielsen 7. Strategies and Tactics of Visibility: The Micro-Politics of Vulnerable Migrant Groups during the Pandemic in Brussels – Mattias De Backer 8. Reframing Marginality in Trans Politics: Towards an Ethics of Differentiation – Caterina Nirta 9. Open Science as an Engine of Anxiety: How Scientists Promote and Defend the Visibility of Their Digital Selves, While Becoming Fatalistic about Academic Careers – Martin Reinhart Notes on Contributors Index
Andrea Mubi Brighenti is a social theorist based at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. His research topics cover issues of space, power and society.