Aesthetics, Ethics, and Visual Research in the Digital Age: ‘Undone in the Face of the Otter’
| Date | 01 January 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829816684255 |
| Published date | 01 January 2017 |
| Author | Laura J. Shepherd |
| Subject Matter | Forum: The Aesthetic Turn at 15 |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829816684255
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2017, Vol. 45(2) 214 –222
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Aesthetics, Ethics, and Visual
Research in the Digital Age:
‘Undone in the Face of the
Otter’
Laura J. Shepherd
UNSW Australia
Keywords
aesthetics, ethics, research, relationality, images, visual politics
Fifteen years ago, Roland Bleiker’s profound and influential article outlined a research
agenda for those who take seriously the nature of aesthetic encounters with the social
world. A rich and sophisticated literature addressing theoretical and methodological
aspects of visual research in IR has emerged through the ‘aesthetic turn’ in International
Relations (IR) theory.1 Efforts to theorise, or represent, global politics that are inspired
Corresponding author:
Laura J. Shepherd, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Australia, Room 165, Morven Brown Building, Sydney,
NSW 2052, Australia.
Email: l.j.shepherd@unsw.edu.au
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