Bente Stachowske

Summary

Doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, specialising in humanitarian photography, colonial legacies in visual communication, and ethics of representation in digital media. My research explores how aesthetics, power, and human rights are intertwined, with a particular focus on the role of the viewer in processes of meaning-making and complicity.

Profile

Researcher info

Institution

University Lapland

Department/faculty

Social Science

Contact information

bstachow@ulapland.fi
+49 1747787416

Keywords
decolonial studies global development Human Rights humanitarian photography postcolonial theory viewer perception visual communication visual narratives