Citizens of Photography

Christopher Pinney is Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London and author of The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages.Naluwembe Binaisa researches mobilities, belonging, and citizenship within Africa.Vindhya Buthpitiya is Associate Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.Konstantinos Kalantzis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Thessaly.Ileana L. Selejan is Lecturer in Art History, Culture, and Society at the University of Edinburgh.Sokphea Young is an honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. Photographing; or, the Future of the Image / Christopher Pinney  11. “The Truth Is in the Soil”-The Political Work of Photography in Northern Sri Lanka / Vidhya Buthpitiya  632. Visual Citizenship in Cambodia-From Apocalypse to Visual “Political Emancipation” / Sokphea Young  1113. Photography, Citizenship, and Accusatory Memory in the Greek Crisis / Konstantinos Kalantzis  1504. Insurgent Archive-The Photographic Making and Unmaking of the Nicaraguan Revolutionary State / Ileana L. Selejan  1925. “We Are Moving with Technology”-Photographing Voice and Belonging in Nigeria / Naluwembe Binaisa  2346. Citizenship, Contingency, and Futurity-Photographic Ethnographies from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh / Christopher Pinney  273Bibliography  319Contributors  337Index  339

“Ambitious in its theoretical and ethnographic reach, this vital volume robustly explores the unruly political potentialities of photography while laying out multiple directions for a future anthropology of photography. Citizens of Photography is a landmark book.” - Karen Strassler, author of (Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia) "Citizens of Photography is a coherent whole. It is both a theoretical and participant-observational work in anthropology, and thankfully, the latter does not get trumped by the former. The volume would be accessible to a variety of disciplinary orientations, and the chapters work in tandem or for stand-alone use in undergraduate or graduate courses. In short, Citizens of Photography is a welcome addition to any cannon related to media, visual, or political anthropology." - Leighton C. Peterson (Visual Communication Quarterly) "For the careful reader, untold stories of unknown photographers and cultural tropes emerge that reveal worlds of photographic and ethnographic practice from many countries often ignored by Anglo-American historians. How do other cultures use photography? This volume answers this question and analyzes the results. Recommended. General readers through faculty." - R. Hackemann (Choice)