The Visual Politics of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: From the UN Security Council to Civil Society

Dr Columba Achilleos-Sarll received a BISA Early Career Small Research Grant to help fund research investigating how the WPS agenda is visually communicated and (re)produced to study the dynamics of its visual politics, including the constitutive political effects. Drawing from an extensive body of new visual material collated and coded at different levels of WPS decision-making, from the UN Security Council to civil society organizations, the project explores how gender, race, class, and coloniality shape the visual politics of the agenda. As the first comprehensive visual examination of the WPS agenda to date, this research will make a significant and timely contribution to WPS scholarship alongside the wider literature on visual global politics.