Conference contributions:

Vivienne Jabri chaired the section, Is the International Constituted to Meet the Demands of Global Justice?

Panel: To Look or Not to Look: Participation, Visual Agency, and Global Injustices

This panel examines the mechanisms through which the visual advances the understanding of harm, injury, and justice at various sites of political emergence in the Global South, proposing a broad definition of ‘the visual’ which includes art, mapping practices, and documentaries. By bringing together visual methodologies to examine the organisation and emergence of public agency at different sites in the Global South, this panel argues that visual approaches to lived experiences of injury mediate the mobilisation of public agency, make injustices legible, and are paramount to mapping a route towards global justice.

Paper titles:

• Madonna Kalousian, The Beirut Port Explosion: Ruination, Resistance, and Aesthetics of Recovery
• Naluwembe Binaisa, Art, Activism and Injustice: Mapping the Territory in the Niger Delta
• Cecile Bourne-Farrell, Curating Art and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: SUD2017
• Jennifer Bates, ‘Winds of Blood:’ indigenous visual representations of wind energy in Colombia’s La Guajira region
• Vivienne Jabri participated in a research workshop, Absence – Silence – Temporalities with Renske Vos (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University), Zeynep Gulsah Capan (Erfurt University) and Katja Freistein (University of Duisburg-Essen).
• Jennifer Bates participated on the panel, Configuring the Subject of Rights, Sovereignty and Relationality, with her paper, ‘Configuring the Indigenous Subject of Rights in Multicultural Colombia’.

See full conference programme here: https://www.wiscnetwork.net/warsaw2024#conference-program.