Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies - Hardcover

Marsha Meskimmon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781382808 ISBN 13: 9781781382806

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies is an extensive compendium of texts and images, combining scholarly, creative and critical writing on photography with new work in photography. The contributions to the compendium range from academic essays on fine art and documentary photographies to photo-essays, community-based and pedagogical photographic projects, personal testimonies, creative writing, activist interventions and accounts of participatory action research using photography. Home/Land is global in its reach, exploring women's lives in Britain and other European nations, the United States, Canada, the Middle East, South Africa, Asia and Australia. Bringing together texts and images produced by an international group of feminist scholars, activists, artists and educators, the book demonstrates how women have used photographic practices to find places for themselves as citizens, denizens, exiles or guests, within or beyond the nation as currently conceived, and, in so doing, how they actively produce new and different forms of identity, community and belonging.

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Review:

'Challenging the `objective voice of reason' associated with academic writing, the editors suggest a need for new feminist approaches to lens-based practices on the part of artists and scholars.' The Burlington 'Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographiesinterrogates the ways in which women both use and interpret photography in order to engage with histories, geographies and processes of representation related to home and land, with a particular focus on the concepts of women and citizenship. While the terms home and land are often linked together, their conjunction in the title signifies an increasingly fractured relationship. It is this disjuncture that the book seeks to explore.' Roberta McGrath, Visual Studies Reviews 'This book emerged from the Lens of Empowerment project, a highly creative and intellectual initiative consisting of an international research network and conference (2009-12). The project's engagements of "lens-based power" were inspired by photography's ubiquity and the artistic potential of passport photos, holiday Polaroids, advertising, and documentary film. The authors of Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies dispel the negative stereotypes ascribed to the figure of globalization by portraying the experiences of women who have confronted the "settled, contested and lost" conditions of home and nation.' Jane Chin Davidson, College Art Association

About the Author:

Marsha Meskimmon is Professor of Art History and Theory and Associate Dean, School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University. Marion Arnold is Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture in the School of the Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1781382808
• ISBN 13: 9781781382806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Marsha Meskimmon, Dr Marion Arnold