Projecting Citizenship : : Photography and Belonging in the British Empire / / Gabrielle Moser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Moser, Gabrielle,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 64 illustrations

In Projecting Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British government's Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the beginning of the twentieth century-a series of lantern slide lectures that combined geography education and photography to teach schoolchildren around the world what it meant to look and to feel like an imperial citizen.Through detailed archival research and close readings, Moser elucidates the impact of this vast collection of photographs documenting the land and peoples of the British Empire, circulated between 1902 and 1945 in classrooms from Canada to Hong Kong, from the West Indies to Australia. Moser argues that these photographs played a central role in the invention and representation of imperial citizenship. She shows how citizenship became a photographable and teachable subject by tracing the intended readings of the images that the committee hoped to impart to viewers and analyzing how spectators may have used their encounters with these photographs for protest and resistance. Interweaving political and economic history, history of pedagogy, and theories of citizenship with a consideration of the aesthetic and affective dimensions of viewing the lectures, Projecting Citizenship offers important insights into the social inequalities and visual language of colonial rule.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ilustrations -- Preface: Archival Reconstructions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Citizenship in and out of Sight -- 1 The Spectator Projecting Imperial Citizens in England and India -- 2 The Photographer: Looking Along the Archival Grain in Canada -- 3 The Subject: Developing the Image of the Indentured Laborer -- 4 The Archive: Residues of Noncitizens in the COVIC Archive -- Conclusion From Imperial to Global Citizens: Picturing Citizenship in the Present -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index