Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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But despite campaigns attempting to tap into the political currency of pictures, different content forms elicit different emotional responses. The challenge for protest movements is to develop a consistent, interconnected theme, and to be aware of their audience and differences in reception. Schreiner, P. 2008. Auswärtige Kulturarbeit zwischen Konzeption und Umsetzung. Paper S12. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.

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Keppler, D. 2015. Mehr als tweets, likes and hashtags?. Digitale Partizipation in der Auswärtigen Kultur- und Bildungspolitik Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. Images tap into attitudes, but not always in the same way for every viewer. Instead, an image’s perceived level of influence is based on “believability.” This is the idea that it is true if we agree, fake if we disagree. And it is here that the power of images intersects with the great challenge of the digital age. Amt, Auswärtiges. 2012. Shaping globalization—Expanding partnerships—Sharing responsibility. Berlin: Auswärtiges Amt. Chiara Bottici's Imaginal Politics is an original, suggestive, and solid contribution to political philosophy broadly understood. The strength of Bottici's work lies in its scope and potential for unifying several strands of inquiry into one integrated theory of the imaginal and working out the consequences of this notion for a variety of disciplines. The whole field of 'politics and the imagination' is rapidly expanding, and I would not be surprised if this book were to turn into one of the key references in the field. Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome Tor Vergata, and former president of the Italian Association of Political Philosophy Solomon, T. 2014. The affective underpinnings of soft power. European Journal of International Relations 20 (3): 720–741.

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