Introduction

In this current edited volume, we sought to expand on this work and asked our contributors to consider this scholarship, but also others who have engaged more precisely with visual activism and spectatorship. Contributors have participated in this volume from a wide variety of backgrounds, some of which we will describe more closely below. But at this point it may be worthwhile to disseminate the visual activism and spectatorship field more widely, beginning with a discussion of what is meant by visual activism and activist spectatorship. It will necessarily be a brief dissemination as it is intended to only give a broad overview of the field within which this book is situated.