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“What demands do images of suffering place on our viewing practices?”: in conversation with scholar and writer Milka Njoroge
In the wake of what has been termed the “livestreamed genocide” in Gaza, images of Palestinian suffering have saturated our screens with an unprecedented persistence and immediacy. Yet these images demand something different from us. This conversation with scholar and writer Milka Njoroge brings us into the heart of her urgent question: “What demands do images of suffering place on our viewing practices?” As Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University whose dissertation explored the colonial logics undergirding humanitarian imagery, Njoroge brings a critical lens to understanding how Palestinians’ own documentation of genocide represents both continuity with and rupture from historical…
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