Pluralist Methods for Visual Global Politics
Pluralist Methods for Visual Global Politics
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视觉全球政治的多元方法
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2015
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Roland Bleiker
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Roland Bleiker
图像在全球政治中发挥着越来越重要的作用，但也带来了重大的、迄今为止基本上尚未探索的方法论挑战。图像不同于文字。它们以更加复杂和快速的方式循环。我认为，图像的政治意义是最好的理解，通过一个跨学科的框架，依赖于多种方法，即使他们有时是不兼容的。我为这种多元主义的方法辩护，认为它既有争议，也是必要的：争议是因为放弃单一的证据标准违反了社会科学惯例;必要是因为这样的策略提供了评估图像如何在其构建，内容和影响中发挥作用的最佳机会。我反驳了对相对主义的恐惧，认为对无可争辩的知识的傲慢比不同观点的冲突更危险。正是这些互不相容的方法的结合，使我们不断地意识到我们自己的偶然立场，从而增加了理解视觉全球政治的复杂性所需的自我反思。
Images play an increasingly important role in global politics but pose significant and so far largely unexplored methodological challenges. Images are different from words. They circulate in ever more complex and rapid ways. I argue that the political significance of images is best understood through an interdisciplinary framework that relies on multiple methods, even if they are at times incompatible. I defend such a pluralist approach as both controversial and essential: controversial because giving up a unitary standard of evidence violates social scientific conventions; essential because such a strategy offers the best opportunity to assess how images work across their construction, content and impact. I counter fears of relativism, arguing that the hubris of indisputable knowledge is more dangerous than a clash of different perspectives. The very combination of incompatible methods makes us constantly aware of our own contingent standpoints, thus increasing the self-reflectiveness required to understand the complexities of visual global politics.