Refugees as Icons : Culture and Iconic Representation
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00102361" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00102361 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12568/full" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12568/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12568" target="_blank" >10.1111/soc4.12568</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Refugees as Icons : Culture and Iconic Representation
Original language description
The September 2015 photograph of Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy, lying facedown and dead on a Turkish beach, quickly became an iconic representation of Europe's “refugee crisis.” Even though images of distant suffering of refugees have become ubiquitous, only a few become iconic. It is this cultural process of iconization that often bedevils sociologists interested in visuality. How does an image gain the necessary currency to sway public opinion or even policy making? Why do some photographs elicit profound compassion that transcends the borders of its particular context? In this review, we explore how various authors have addressed these questions, focusing on the iconic images of Alan Kurdi. The “iconic turn” in cultural sociology and in the social sciences more broadly speaking offers theoretical and methodological insights for the analysis of images such as those depicting refugees and asylum seekers. For this reason, we situate the current work in the field of refugee photography within the framework of cultural sociology, even if many of the scholars discussed are from other disciplines.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociology Compass
ISSN
1751-9020
e-ISSN
1751-9020
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1-14
UT code for WoS article
000426655700007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85043346071