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Projecting Citizenship
2020
Overview
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.
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Subject
ISBN
0271081279, 9780271081274
