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- Hongsaton Zackari, Karin
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Visualizing Impunity : Photography and State Violence in Thailand
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Ingår i: The Trans Asia Photography Review. - 2158-2025. ; 10:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper I discuss the challenge of visualising ongoing and repeated state violence and impunity in Thailand. Human rights activists commonly assume that photographs hold political power. This assumption can be doubted. Even if there are material traces of the violence, they cannot guarantee visibility, and, as Ariella Azoulay points out, photography of violence risks depoliticizing by equating the violation with the violated body rather than seeing the structures of violence. The very publicness of violence is part of the production of impunity in the Thai state through its modern history. This is an ongoing practice and there is no archive of a past authoritarian regime to expose in a historical trial. Often there are no photographs at all of what happened or the consequences of it. What can photography do in the absence of photography of an event of violence? In this paper I study a series of staged photographs produced by Thailand based photographer Luke Duggleby and the human rights NGO Protection International. The series is called “For those who died trying” and it covers thirty-five cases from all over Thailand of rights-activists that have been killed or forcibly disappeared, followed by impunity. I analyse the photographs in relation to global and Thai photographic practices and activist uses of photography, and investigate their role in the knowledge production about violence and impunity. Bordering the line between photography as a historical record and as a material basis for memory, I argue that through aesthetic repetition connections are created between the cases, between the persons in the photograph and the Thai state, and between the individual instances of violence and a history of impunity in Thailand.
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- Zackari, Karin, et al.
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Konstitutioner och konflikter om mänskliga rättigheter i Thailands moderna politiska historia
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Ingår i: Mänskliga rättigheter i samhället. - 9789186980702 ; , s. 211-231
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Utifrån det moderna Thailands historia problematiseras föreställningen om konstitutionen som en garant för rättigheter. I Thailand har konstitutionen utgjort ett otillräckligt verktyg och ibland rentav ett hinder för att institutionalisera mänskliga rättigheter. Kapitlet åskådliggör hur de mänskliga rättigheternas historia i Thailand är sammanlänkad med en historia om statskupper, auktoritära regimer, kamp för demokrati och konflikter om demokratins gränser. Historien präglas också av religiösa föreställningar och praktiker, som placerar den konstitutionella monarkin över politiken. Denna föreställt opolitiska politiska ordning brukar sammanfattas som Demokrati på thailändskt vis (Thai Style Democracy) och har under lång tid kraftigt försvårat möjligheterna att institutionalisera de mänskliga rättigheterna i landet. Samtidigt har striden för mänskliga rättigheter varit en del av de pågående konflikterna kring konstitutionen och demokratin under hela den undersökta perioden.
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- Zackari, Karin
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Political Power of Photography: The Materiality of 14 and 6 October
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Ingår i: ; , s. 213-213
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents a study of the role that photography of 14 October 1973 and 6 October 1976 has played in political mobilization around the two events. It is well known that in official archives limited versions of the events can be found. We must turn to alternative repositories (private homes, nonstates organisations, but also universities and libraries outside of Thailand) to find the anticipated nuances in the history of the two events. This paper shows how narrations of the two events have been formed in magazines, newspapers, and books using the photographs. It suggests that the archives and the published photographs become agents in themselves that draw in people to engage in a political legacy. Academics and activists who, for various reasons, have reproduced these photographs, tend to treat them as evidence of historical events. However, the people engaging with the photographs become heirs not only to a cause but to the materiality of the October events. This paper shows that political power in photography is connected to reproduction, dissemination, and the places where they can be found or lost.
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