Visualizing the European migrant crisis on social media: the relation of crisis visualities to migrant visibility
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F23%3A00134010" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/23:00134010 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04353684.2022.2098156" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04353684.2022.2098156</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2022.2098156" target="_blank" >10.1080/04353684.2022.2098156</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Visualizing the European migrant crisis on social media: the relation of crisis visualities to migrant visibility
Original language description
The paper analyses popular geographical imageries of the European migrant crisis. It focuses on visualities that shaped discussions about the event among Czech Facebook users with anti-immigration attitudes. The paper elaborates on the co-production of migrants' visibility and visualities that depict them in certain ways. Visuality influences visibility and shapes what it means for people (who are represented by images) to be visible in certain ways when seen by another people (who observe and consume the images). Here, we analyse how cartographic visualizations and the practice of montage of images produce meanings and affects that make migrants either visible only as abusers of the Czech social welfare system (linking migrants in a racist way to the Roma minority) or visible only as dehumanized raging Muslim invaders that resemble more machine-like beings. These interpretations are explained with references to historical specificities of the Czech context. A user-made, film-like sci-fi video of the crisis is also analysed carefully to demonstrate its imaginary of a collapsing Western Europe, where raging invaders dominate. Presenting migrants' visuality as invaders links these racist and Islamophobic attitudes to migrants' visibility as enemies and targets to be killed, not pitiable human beings to be helped.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-03708S" target="_blank" >GA20-03708S: Disability geography: visually impaired experience with urban space</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
ISSN
0435-3684
e-ISSN
1468-0467
Volume of the periodical
105
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
99-115
UT code for WoS article
000825777700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85133650899