The Impossible Portrait: Networked Image‐events, Counter‐bureaucratic traces, and Anti‐Blackness in Delhi, India.

  • Published In: Visual Anthropology Review, 2023, v. 39, n. 1. P. 230 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: DATTATREYAN, ETHIRAJ GABRIEL 3 of 3

Abstract

This article focuses on a portrait of a young Somali man living in Delhi, India. The portrait depicts him in a park in South Delhi wearing a cap distributed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) during their insurgent 2012‐2013 campaign to establish themselves as an alternative political force. I argue this parodic portrait and the text it accrues in its circulations on Facebook functions as a networked image‐event that evinces the impossible contradictions that Somalis face in India. Tracing this networked image event reveals how a surging antiblackness linked to the rise of the AAP Party in Delhi punctuates the in‐betweenness that Somalis experience while they wait for life elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Visual Anthropology Review. 2023/03, Vol. 39, Issue 1, p230
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Geography and Cartography
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1058-7187
  • DOI:10.1111/var.12296
  • Accession Number:165470372
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