Moving as a 'scrawny, brown body': navigating sticky emotional geographies of physical activity in Singapore
In: Gender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 70-91
ISSN: 1360-0524
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In: Gender, place and culture: a journal of feminist geography, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 70-91
ISSN: 1360-0524
In: Emotion, space and society, Band 37, S. 100739
ISSN: 1755-4586
This paper explores how digital photography – the practice of taking pictures and sharing them via social media – can give rise to representational politics. These politics are pronounced when disadvantaged people and places are the objects of digital representation, as they become (dis)empowered by being implicated in the affective economy of difference. Empirically, we examine the representational practices that Singaporean voluntourists, and companies that organise overseas humanitarian projects, engage in. We highlight how their motivations for engaging with these projects can be obfuscated by the opportunity to generate influence on Instagram, which can then shape the practice of popular humanitarianism. In particular, it can cause encounters with difference to be (cu)rated, influence to be (re)produced, and representation to therefore be (de)valued.
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