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Aileen Caitriona Blaney

Associate Professor

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Blaney, A. (2024). Going Wild on Instagram: Tiger Safaris and India’s Protected Areas in the Age of Social Media. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 47 (2), 217-233
  • Sarkar, A & Blaney, A. (2023). Material Metaphor and Reflexivity in Contemporary Painting: a Practice Based Investigation.  Journal of Aesthetic Education, 57 (1), 98-119.
  • Sarkar, A & Blaney, A. (2022). The flesh of imagination: locating materiality in biology-inspired visual art. Leonardo, 55. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02102
  • Blaney, A. 2019. Farming on Facebook, Camera-less Food Photography and a New Indian Pastoral. International Journal of E-Politics, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEP.2019070101
  • Blaney, A. (2019). Photographic Art and Technology in Contemporary India. Journal of Philosophy of Photography, 10 (1), pp 23-40. https://doi.org/10.1386/pop_00004_1
  • Blaney, A. & Shah, C. (2018). The Aesthetics of Contemporary Indian Photography in an ‘Incredible India. Journal of Photography and Culture, 11 (1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2017.1410322
  • Blaney, A. (2015). Food, Photography and the Indian Pastoral. The International Journal of E Politics, 7 (2), DOI: 10.4018/IJEP.2016040101
  • Blaney, A. (2009). In and Out of Competition: Korean Cinema at the Cannes Film Festival. Journal of Film and Image Studies, 14
  • Blaney, A. (2009). Visible Victims: the Politics of Suffering in OmaghThe European Journal of Cultural Studies, 12 (3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549409342510
  • Blaney, A. (2008). All’s Fair in Love and War? Representations of Prison Life in Silent Grace. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 15 (4).  https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506808095296
  • Blaney, A. (2007). Remembering Historical Trauma in Paul Greengrass’s Bloody SundayHistory and   Memory, 19 (2), 113-138.  

BOOKS

  • Blaney, A. & Shah. C. (Eds.) 2018. 2020. Photography in India: from Archives to Contemporary Practice. Bloomsbury/Routledge.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Blaney, A & Shah, C. (2022). Circulation of Photography in the Popular Digital Realm: Cell Phones and Social Media. In Sinha, G (Ed.), Points of View: Defining Moments of Photography in India. KNMA, 2022
  • Blaney, A. (2018). Introduction. Photography in India: from Archives to   Contemporary Practice. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
  • Blaney, A. (2016). Food Photography, Pixelated Produce and Cameraless Images: A Photographic Journey from Farmville to Kheti Badi. In Ibrahim, Yasmin (Ed.), Politics, Protest and Empowerment in Digital Spaces. IGI Global. 
  • Blaney, A. (2010). FacingtheTruthPain & Reconciliation. In Gray, A., & Bell, E (Eds.), Televising History: Mediating the Past in Postwar Europe. Palgrave
  • Blaney, A. (2007). Caught in the Holy Cross Fire: Ethno-sectarian Conflict in Ardoyne. In Rockett, K.& McLoone, M. (Eds.), National Cinema, Film History.Four Courts Press.

Blaney, A. (2006). From waste to Worth: the Politics of Self-sacrifice in H3’. In Hill, J. & Rockett, K. (Eds.), National Cinema, Film History. Four Courts Press, 2006.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • ‘The New Experience Economy,’ The Irish Daily Mail, 11 May, 2024.
  • ‘A Real Slice of Island Life,’ The Irish Daily Mail, 2 March, 2024
  • ‘Shooting Tigers and the Natural World: the Nature of Visual Entertainment on Instagram.’ PhotoSouthAsia. Murthy Nayak Foundation. 2022
  • The Maharaj of the Moors. National Geographic Traveller India. Print issue January-February 2022.
  • ‘Harking Back to Sherkin’. National Geographic Traveller India. September-October 2021 (print edition).
  • ‘Why Swimming became a Pandemic-Favourite Pastime in this Irish Town’. National Geographic Traveller India. February 2021. 
  • Photography and the Hunt during the British Raj. PhotoSouthAsia. Murthy Nayak Foundation. 2021
  • Instagram Field Reports from India During a Nature Tourism Boom: #tigersofindia #bigcatsindia #bengaltiger. PhotoSouthAsia. Murthy Nayak Foundation. 2021
  • ‘On Workation During a Pandemic’, The Economic Times, December 10, 2020.
  • ‘Macro Your Shot: Citizen Scientists go ‘Frogging’ in the Western Ghats and on Social Media’, India Photographed, MurthyNAYAK Foundation, 2021.
  • Review essay of ‘Memoire temporelle, comme un mirage’ (Kalpash Lathigra), Source: Thinking through Photography, May issue, 2020.
  • ‘At a Museum for Toilets, Perspectives on Public Sanitation’, The Wire, February, 2020
  • ‘Varadkar’s Village: Discovering Leo’s Indian Roots’, The Business Post, January 2020.
  • ‘How Frogs on Instagram are Spurring an Unprecedented Collective Documenting of Species’, Huffington Post, October 2019.
  • ‘Why Don’t Big Tech Companies Listen to Users, Only User Data?, Huffington Post, May 2019.
  • ‘Hustle Away: The Dawn of an Instagram Work Culture’, The Wire, April 2019
  • ‘The ‘‘Do What You Love’’ Mantra and Co-Option of a Laborious Work Culture’, The Wire, April 2019
  • ‘On Photography After Photography’, PIX: The Student Issue, February 2018.
  • ‘EVA International: Still the Barbarians’, Unbound: A Journal of Discourse and Creative Practice, Monsoon edition, 2016.
  • ‘Farming Pixels: Food, Photography and the Beauty Myth,’ The Forager Magazine, Winter edition, 2015.   
  • ‘Turner Prize 2013: A Review’, Kindle Magazine, December edition, 2013.
  • ‘Training days: a filmmaker recounts shooting at a Hindu fundamentalist camp for girls’, The Caravan, August issue, 2013.
  • ‘Voices from the Field: Funding Scenarios for the Visual Arts in India’, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), 2013. http://www.indiaifa.org/pdf/eap/voices_from_the_field_IFA_study.pdf
  • ‘FOMACS Retrospective - the Story So Far’, the Forum on Migration and Communications and Atlantic Philanthropies, 2012. http://www.fomacsretrospective.org
  • ‘First Shot,’ Circa Art Magazine, vol. 125, 2008.
  • ‘Women War Photographers; the Galway Arts Festival,’ Circa Art Magazine,   vol. 122, 2007.
  • ‘Gary Coyle and Stephen Gardner: The Sea,’ Circa Art Magazine, vol. 119, 2007.
  • ‘Jaki Irvine: In a World Like This,’ Circa Art Magazine, vol. 119, 2007.
  • ‘Final Boarding: Paul Greengrass’s United 93,’ Circa Art Magazine, vol. 117, 2006.