Non-Human Animals as Resources for Political Communication During War: The Case of Ukraine.
In this article, we direct attention to how non-human animals are used as resources for political communication in war. The analysis explores how this practice comes to be used in war communication and how it can be conceptualized as political animal capital. We apply a visual methodology in combina...
| Publicado en: | Journal of War & Culture Studies Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 349 - 370 |
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