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Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy (2023)

Turchetti, Simone (Author)
Adamson, Matthew (Author)

British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 56
Issue: 2
Pages: 135-146
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1017/S0007087423000146

URI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/introduction-power-to-the-image-science-technology-and-visual-diplomacy/FDE4F52D3091011E66B1068CF31FEB43

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This special issue explores the power that images with a techno-scientific content can have in international relations. As we introduce the articles in the collection, we highlight how the study of this influence extends current research in the separate (but increasingly interacting) domains of history of science and technology, and political science. We then show how images of different types (photographs, cartoons and plots) can inform inter-state transactions through their public appeal alongside the better-studied dialogic practices of the diplomatic arena. Finally, we offer an analysis of the interlacing of different diplomatic tracks based on words and images and conclude that, in contrast with words, images conflate agency and argument, therefore creating opportunities to inform transactions and negotiations which their designers may not have even intended.

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Article Sebastian V. Grevsmühl; Régis Briday (2023) Satellite images as tools of visual diplomacy: NASA's ozone hole visualizations and the Montreal Protocol negotiations. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 247-267). unapi

Article Simone Turchetti (2023) Representing noise: stacked plots and the contrasting diplomatic ambitions of radio astronomy and post-punk. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 225-245). unapi

Article Matthew Adamson (2023) Showcasing the international atom: the IAEA Bulletin as a visual science diplomacy instrument, 1958–1962. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 205-223). unapi

Article Gordon Barrett (2023) Picturing Chinese science: wartime photographs in Joseph Needham's science diplomacy. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 185-203). unapi

Article Beatriz Medori (2023) The visual diplomacy of cancer treatments: the mediatic legacy of the Curies in the early transnational fight against cancer. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 167-183). unapi

Article Maria Paula Diogo; Paula Urze; Ana Simões (2023) Cartoon diplomacy: visual strategies, imperial rivalries and the 1890 British Ultimatum to Portugal. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 147-166). unapi

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