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Touching heritage: embodied politics in children’s photography
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Varvantakis, Christos Nolas, Sevasti-Melissa |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Abstract | Drawing on ethnographic research with children in Athens, the authors examine sensual, performative and embodied aspects of children’s photographic representations of a monument that is central in the Greek national, cultural and historical discourse, the Acropolis. Moving away from the hermeneutics of cultural domination, the focus of this article is on how the pictures depicted the monument and how they were used by the children. Assuming an analytical framework which incorporates aspects of sensual experience in the analysis of the photography, the authors discuss how the children’s pictures of the Acropolis not only make visual records of the monument, and thus are not simply visual evidence of the centrality of the mainstream Greek national and historical discourse, but also how they entail the children’s embodied relation to it, and what this relation might tell us about childhood expressions of heritage and belonging, and by extension about politics in childhood. The analytical focus on embodied aspects of children’s photography illuminates complexities of cultural representation and their gestural, discursive and political significance. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14703572211039258?download=true |
| ISSN | 14703572 |
| Journal | Visual Communication (VCJ) |
| e-ISSN | 17413214 |
| DOI | 10.1177/14703572211039258 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2021-10-09 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2021 |
| Subject Keyword | children photography cultural politics Greece heritage public space multimodal ethnography the senses |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Visual Arts and Performing Arts Communication |
