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Images have long mattered for human rights, and they continue to do so. And with that, the interest in visual ways of knowing only increases. This chapter is concerned with these visual ways of knowing because they have the capacity to accommodate less linear, less authoritative and more imaginative modes of engagement with important ethical, social and political questions. The chapter thus presses for a next iteration, perhaps a further advance in visual epistemologies, striving for an imaginative thinking that could reposition human rights issues. Such a repositioning becomes necessary at a time of global anxieties that fuel deep concerns about the future of international norms and human rights aspirations.
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Ristovska, S. (2018). Imaginative Thinking and Human Rights. In: Ristovska, S., Price, M. (eds) Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75987-6_18
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