Journals / Kültür ve İletişim / 2014 / Cilt: 17 - Sayı: 2
Resisting images: Iconic images of collective memory in Turkish context
- Journal
- Kültür ve İletişim
- Pages
- 36–60
- DOI
- —
Abstract
This study moves from the idea that the images do not get the academic respectthey deserve in a world surrounded by a myriad of images. Unfortunately, in thehegemonic logocentric meaning context, the images are mostly seen as objects ofanalysis or posited in the text as supporting and decorating data; and they arehardly given any academic credit beyond that. This study, focusing on somepeculiar photographic images in order to trace the struggle between discourseand reality in these images, is theoretically planned as an attempt to think aboutand through the images. In this way, it is regarded that the photographs haveiconic power. This study attributes to the image a specific power and mobilizingcapacity within the struggle of social memory.In the study, both some historical images of the patriarchal nation-statedesigned to aid the national collective and some actual news images which resistthe nation-state images are exemplified. The image regime of the patriarchalnation-state, which is based on the ideological strategy of covering by showing ,is challenged by photographic images that are resisting with the strategy ofshowing by covering . Through these example of images, the strategies ofcovering and/or revealing the reality are put into consideration. This article,describing the war of discourses among the relevant photographic images, takesside by those images, which resist against the hegemonic discourse of thepatriarchal nation-state, for constructing the collective memory of the oppressedin an activist way.
Özet
This study moves from the idea that the images do not get the academic respectthey deserve in a world surrounded by a myriad of images. Unfortunately, in thehegemonic logocentric meaning context, the images are mostly seen as objects ofanalysis or posited in the text as supporting and decorating data; and they arehardly given any academic credit beyond that. This study, focusing on somepeculiar photographic images in order to trace the struggle between discourseand reality in these images, is theoretically planned as an attempt to think aboutand through the images. In this way, it is regarded that the photographs haveiconic power. This study attributes to the image a specific power and mobilizingcapacity within the struggle of social memory.In the study, both some historical images of the patriarchal nation-statedesigned to aid the national collective and some actual news images which resistthe nation-state images are exemplified. The image regime of the patriarchalnation-state, which is based on the ideological strategy of covering by showing ,is challenged by photographic images that are resisting with the strategy ofshowing by covering . Through these example of images, the strategies ofcovering and/or revealing the reality are put into consideration. This article,describing the war of discourses among the relevant photographic images, takesside by those images, which resist against the hegemonic discourse of thepatriarchal nation-state, for constructing the collective memory of the oppressedin an activist way.