| Summary: | A citizen is a legally recognised subject of a state or commonwealth, and citizenship refers to the legal status of being a citizen - a relationship between an individual and a state that confers access to equal civil, political, and social rights. This themed issue aims to investigate the role of visual culture in defining, contesting and advancing ideas of Australian citizenship and its attendant rights, from white settlement to the present.[1] Acknowledging, but looking beyond, the legal status of citizenship, these articles seek to explore the broader processes through which this cultural category is constituted and deployed. Azoulay emphasises the relationships between image creators, those represented, and those viewing imagery in diverse settings in determining meanings, and the democratic possibilities of collective and public conceptions of political relations - beyond state, academic, or professional views - which might evade or bypass state regimes.
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