ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how Associated Press news photographs of Afghan women mobilise each term in the concept of women's/human/rights in order to explore more deeply the contours of relationality within media witnessing of the war on terror. It considers how aftects within photographic texts open up space for the potential recognition of differences, spaces that can potentially destabilise hegemonic scripts about populations at risk. As The chapter interrogates the ways in which representations of precarity not only reproduce the minefields of spectacle discussed in this chapter but also provide visual opportunities to grapple with subjectivity and relationality as potential means for resisting the hegemonic. Affective instabilities turn the witnessing gaze back onto the viewer in ways that expose some of the complex visual politics of witnessing precarity.
