Kindly Supported by:
Professor David Campbell
Durham University
David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University. His research deals with the visual culture of geopolitics and international relations, political theory and global geopolitics, and US security policy.
He is the author of
Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity
and
National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia
– which won International Forum Bosnia's Bosnia-Herzegovina Book of the Year 1999, and was published in translation Sarajevo in 2003 – this work deals with security policy in terms of the politics of identity and representation.
For the last few years he has been working in various ways on the visual – in particular the practice of documentary photographers and photojournalists – as a site of international politics that extends earlier conceptualisations of representation. It is hoped that these thoughts will come together in a project about the visual economy of Sudan in the post-WWII period.
Some of these ideas have been trialled for different photographic audiences, including the 2005 Sem Presser Lecture (“Has ‘Concerned Photography’ a Future?”) at the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam, as well as graduate photojournalism students in the UK, China and the Philippines. They have also informed his role as one of the curators/editors of the
Imaging Famine
project, as well as a research report on
The Visual Economy of HIV/AIDS
completed in 2008.
David's work and blog can be found at: www.david-campbell.org
Relevant Publications:
“Geopolitics and Visual Culture: Sighting the Darfur Conflict 2003-05", Political Geograph y 26 (4) 2007: 357-382.
(Co-edited with Michael J. Shapiro), “Securitization, Militarization and Visual Culture in the Worlds of post-9/11,” a special issue of Security Dialogue 38 (2) 2007.
“Horrific Blindness: Images of Death in Contemporary Media,” Journal of Cultural Research 8 (1) 2004: 55-74.
“Cultural Governance and Pictorial Resistance: Reflections on the Imaging of War,” Review of International Studies 29 Special Issue 2003: 57-73.
“Representing Contemporary War,” Ethics and International Affairs 17 (2) 2003: 99-108.
“Salgado and the Sahel: Documentary Photography and the Imaging of Famine,” in Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning , Francois Debrix and Cindy Weber eds. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 69-96.
“Atrocity, Memory, Photography: Imaging the Concentration Camps of Bosnia -- The Case of ITN versus Living Marxism, Part I,” Journal of Human Rights 1 (1) 2002: 1-33.
“Atrocity, Memory, Photography: Imaging the Concentration Camps of Bosnia -- The Case of ITN versus Living Marxism, Part II,” Journal of Human Rights 1 (2) 2002: 143-72.