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Authors
Hampton, ClaireIssue Date
2020-03-15
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This article investigates selfies as a cultural practice, examining the innate agency in selfie taking, positioning selfies as a form of resistance. The analysis considers the way Syrian refugees are framing themselves and are being framed, in a variety of photographic images depicting “Europe’s migration crisis” (Crawley and Skleparis). Through an application of Ernest Becker’s discourse on the ‘terror of death’, which is the basis of the social psychology concept of terror management theory, the research asserts the significance of participation and composition in selfies. It questions both literal and conceptual framings of these images and interrogates the ethics of recognisability and response in relation to the multiple frames of conception through which we view and interpret human life.Citation
Hampton, C. (2020) Selfies at the border: a terror management reading, Liminalities: a journal of performance studies, 16(2).Publisher
LiminalitiesJournal
Liminalities: a journal of performance studiesAdditional Links
http://liminalities.net/16-2/selfies.pdfType
Journal articleLanguage
enDescription
© 2020 The Author. Published by Liminalities. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: http://liminalities.net/16-2/selfies.pdfISSN
1557-2935Collections
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/