Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939)
I aim to reflect in this article how the representational regimes are formed and operate from the visual culture and, especially, I try to discuss the German Colonial Society visual politics. I claim, in the first place, that the use of stereotypes in the incessant and repetitive work of certain rep...
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| description | I aim to reflect in this article how the representational regimes are formed and operate from the visual culture and, especially, I try to discuss the German Colonial Society visual politics. I claim, in the first place, that the use of stereotypes in the incessant and repetitive work of certain representational practice to determine an exclusive meaning about certain theme is one of the basis to the production and reproduction of such effort. In this case, I work with the concept of ‘ethnographical gaze’ in the visual production of the absolute otherness of the African subject. Secondly, I aim to point how the meanings that are thought to be rigid suffer important semantic changes. Finally, I present in which ways those images circulated amidst the German imperialist politics of the twentieth century. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-200ac4ebbb9440999fb62571dd2b8cfb2025-08-20T03:07:35ZengInstituto Universitário de LisboaCadernos de Estudos Africanos1645-37942182-74002018-12-013618721010.4000/cea.3356Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939)Naiara KrachenskiI aim to reflect in this article how the representational regimes are formed and operate from the visual culture and, especially, I try to discuss the German Colonial Society visual politics. I claim, in the first place, that the use of stereotypes in the incessant and repetitive work of certain representational practice to determine an exclusive meaning about certain theme is one of the basis to the production and reproduction of such effort. In this case, I work with the concept of ‘ethnographical gaze’ in the visual production of the absolute otherness of the African subject. Secondly, I aim to point how the meanings that are thought to be rigid suffer important semantic changes. Finally, I present in which ways those images circulated amidst the German imperialist politics of the twentieth century.https://journals.openedition.org/cea/3356colonialismAfricaGerman imperialismvisualitystereotypesphotography |
| spellingShingle | Naiara Krachenski Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939) Cadernos de Estudos Africanos colonialism Africa German imperialism visuality stereotypes photography |
| title | Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939) |
| title_full | Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939) |
| title_fullStr | Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939) |
| title_short | Produção e Circulação de Estereótipos sobre os Africanos nos Registros Fotográficos da Sociedade Colonial Alemã (1909-1939) |
| title_sort | producao e circulacao de estereotipos sobre os africanos nos registros fotograficos da sociedade colonial alema 1909 1939 |
| topic | colonialism Africa German imperialism visuality stereotypes photography |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/cea/3356 |
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