Lilie Chouliaraki
Professor of Media and Communications,
London School of Economics and Political Science.
Introduce Pierluigi Musarò
Dipartimento di Sociologia e diritto dell’economia
Lilie Chouliaraki holds a 2017 Professorial Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna.
This lecture, which draws on Media@LSE's 'Mediation of Migration' research project, focuses on the dominant visual culture around the recent 'refugee crisis' in Europe. Drawing on a typology of relevant images across media, it maps out the field of visibility within which refugees are seen by European publics and examines the forms of responsibility, which the refugees are associated with (monitorial, affective, activist, post-humanitarian). In conclusion, it raises questions about the capacity of these forms of responsibility to engage with refugees as human others and outlines alternative media practices that could possibly foster different visual cultures.