Terrorism: Knowledge, Power, Subjectivity

In the context of terrorism and the war on terror, research on visualization has examined various visual media, including TV shows, films, photographs, video games, online texts, and so on. In international relations (IR), too, more than one film about the effects of the war on terror have been produced. The chapter focuses on this second Alliance of Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) of films, visual culture, and the war on terror, and outlines the way in which IR scholar and activist Dr Cynthia Weber has produced and utilized film in her own research. The main topic of the conversation was, of course, visuality and visual methods, film in understanding the effects and impacts of the war on terror on questions of citizenship and belonging. For Weber, creating a visual imaginary is important not all research participants have a visual imaginary that suits what the film-maker is trying to do and show in the film.