Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs

Much of what we know about the world is informed visually through the prosthetic lens of the photographer. An important post-colonial and cultural studies scholarship today is about investigating visual culture, particularly on the relationship between photography and cultural identities of 't...

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Main Author:	Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2006
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/1/bad_final.pdf

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spelling	ukm-11932016-12-14T06:29:05Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/ Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan, Much of what we know about the world is informed visually through the prosthetic lens of the photographer. An important post-colonial and cultural studies scholarship today is about investigating visual culture, particularly on the relationship between photography and cultural identities of 'the Other'. By way of 'imperious' and 'colonial' guises, photography may be effectively by the ruling elite to inform the dominant polity or society about the cultural identity of its 'Other'. This study argues that certain photographic representations of Indonesian illegal migrants or PATIs (lit. Pendatang Asing Tanpa Izin) by Malaysian print media during the period of their amnesty from the Malaysian government and their eventual deportation by December 2004, are inherently ideological and unnecessarily manipulative. However, it also argues that visual literacy can be employed to deconstruct and raise our awareness of such discursive production which operates against a benevolent construction of the Indonesian PATIs. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/1/bad_final.pdf Badrul Redzuan Abu Hassan, (2006) Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 11 . pp. 41-60. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	Much of what we know about the world is informed visually through the prosthetic lens of the photographer. An important post-colonial and cultural studies scholarship today is about investigating visual culture, particularly on the relationship between photography and cultural identities of 'the Other'. By way of 'imperious' and 'colonial' guises, photography may be effectively by the ruling elite to inform the dominant polity or society about the cultural identity of its 'Other'. This study argues that certain photographic representations of Indonesian illegal migrants or PATIs (lit. Pendatang Asing Tanpa Izin) by Malaysian print media during the period of their amnesty from the Malaysian government and their eventual deportation by December 2004, are inherently ideological and unnecessarily manipulative. However, it also argues that visual literacy can be employed to deconstruct and raise our awareness of such discursive production which operates against a benevolent construction of the Indonesian PATIs.
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title	Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs
title_short	Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs
title_full	Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs
title_fullStr	Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs
title_full_unstemmed	Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs
title_sort	veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of indonesian patis
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2006
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1193/1/bad_final.pdf
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Veni vidi vici: vilified visuality of Indonesian PATIs

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