Episode 4: Aesthetic Approaches: Visualizing security studies

On this episode, we're talking about visualizing security studies and how scholars are working with different aesthetic approaches to research. Our panel of guests includes Sara Matthews, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Brett Story. Though their projects are quite distinct, what our guests have in common is their turn to visual representation as a way of thinking about security.

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Episode Contributors 

• Sara Matthews - Executive Producer and Panel Guest
• Ana Visan - Planning and Research Support

Guests

• Brett Story is an assistant professor of Image Arts at Ryerson University. She is also a documentary filmmaker (A Prison in Twelve Landscapes) and geographer. Her work focuses on issues of state violence and social control, specifically on the carceral state and geographies of the prison industrial complex.
• Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Nayrouz is interested in visual politics, place-making and spatial politics in the context of Israel and Palestine. Their manuscript, The Art of Unsettling Visual Politics, Decolonizing the Palestinian Landscape After the Wall, is available online.
• Sara Matthews is an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her work explores the relations between visual culture and martial politics. You can read more about her work, "The Cultural Life of Drones," on her website.

Support and Funding for This Epiosde

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.