Browsing School of Humanities by Research Institute "Institute of Art and Design"
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Abraham's Luggage
(Book)From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a ... -
Absent Histories and Absent Images: Photographs, Museums and the Colonial Past
(Article)Based on research in a range of UK museums, this paper explores the visibility and invisibility of the photographic legacy of colonial relations and the representation of the colonial past in museum galleries. It explores ... -
Ali Akbar’s red horse – collecting Arab horses in the early modern culture of Empire.
(Book chapter)The Islamicate world has barely featured thus far in the new academic study of collecting, collectors and collections, certainly nowhere in proportion to its vast geographical and temporal extent. My chapter contributes ... -
Amateur Photography, The Final Frontier: Developing Histories of Marginalised Popular Photographic Practices
(Presentation)My talk explored whether it is possible or desirable to position unaccounted for amateur photographic practices in relation to other dominant histories of photography. Considering how exclusive and limited the field of ... -
“… And I will Live Forever”: The Intimate Politics of Family Photographs
(Presentation)This invited talk investigated the practice of family photography and its interrelationship with the social domain, with state politics, and issues of cultural difference, class, nationalism and racism. Addressing some ... -
Artistic Occupation: Camouflaging Difference in Photographic Imagery of the Middle East
(Presentation)In this invited presentation I looked into processes of cultural exchange and hybridisation carried out in and through photographic practices and images. It focused on nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century ... -
At Home with "Palestine": Performing Historical Photographs of the West Bank in Israeli Households
(Book chapter)This chapter offers insights into the multiple roles played by photography in the sociocultural embodiment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Looking into the emergence of photographic cultures in Israel of the post-1967 ... -
At Home with Palestine: Performing Historical Domestic Photographs of the West Bank in Israeli Households
(Presentation)Only a week after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war ended, Israeli citizens began traveling to the territories conquered by the Israeli Defense Forces in the recent battles with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Commonly carrying cameras, ... -
“Bad Photos”: A Political Theorisation of Lomography
(Conference)In recent years vernacular photographic practices have become integral participants in the formation of narratives within the media, the art sphere, as well as academic discourses on global and local political phenomena. ...