This special issue emphasizes memes as an avenue for researching vernacular
expressions of the political. Memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways …

How are images, emotions, and international politics connected? This article develops a
theoretical framework contributing to visuality and emotions research in International …

Abstract The September 2015 photograph of Alan Kurdi, a 3‐year‐old Syrian boy, lying
facedown and dead on a Turkish beach, quickly became an iconic representation of …

This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using
the concept of 'social media imaginaries', a derivative of the broader field of 'media …

The European refugee crisis has been communicated visually through images such as
those of Alan Kurdi lying dead on the beach, by body bags on the harbor front of …

Greta Thunberg's meteoric rise from lonely school striker in August 2018 to global icon is
one of the most remarkable political phenomena in recent decades, and one full of …

This article investigates the use of Internet memes as political protest in Singapore. The
proliferation of political memes after the controversial 2017 Singapore presidential election …

This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning.
Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as …

Focusing on the case of 'Gay Clown Putin', this article theorizes memes as visual
interventions in international politics. While not all memes are political interventions, Gay …

This book uses affect theory to analyze the rise of right-wing populism in recent years and
discusses the pedagogical implications for democratic education. It provides examples of …