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27 janvier 2022
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Maxime Boidy, « Representation struggles, visibility struggles », Hybrid, ID : 10.4000/hybrid.922
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This case study in political iconography and iconology considers some past and present ambiguities of the political and visible aspects of the very idea of representation. It attempts to show how certain political practices epitomise “representation struggles” into visual forms. Two arguments are articulated after an overview of general considerations on the politics of representation in several scholarly fields during the last twenty-five years. On the one hand, the “struggles” linked with contemporary practices are in keeping with a long history of antinomies of the concept of representation. On the other hand, several practices are now better described as “visibility struggles” rather than “representation struggles.” If our societies are currently feeling a “disturbance,” it is rather a “disturbance in visibility,” made blatant by the multiplication of scholarly, activist and everyday uses of the latter term.