| PhD Fellow | |
| Home institution: | University of Freiburg |
| Time at IEG: | 2025, 2026 |
| Funding: | IEG Fellowship |
| Research topic: | Visueller Aktivismus. Das bildpolitische Handeln westlicher Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Fotojournalisten zwischen den 1960er und den 1990er Jahren |
| "The project examines the transformation of civil political forms of action between the late 1960s and the 1990s. The increasingly close ties that developed between photojournalists and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gave rise to a field of visual activism that united both groups. Visual activism shaped non-governmental organizations in many ways and is therefore a crucial factor in understanding the development of transnational activism since the 1960s. The conditions, processes, and effects of this change are examined on the basis of three NGOs, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Médecins sans frontières, as well as the less prominent organization Zero Population Growth, and on the basis of the activities of leading representatives of “activist” photojournalism." |
(c) Bernhard Müller
