Recent scholarship in International Relations (IR) and International Political Sociology (IPS) has made significant contributions to the study of images. Chief among such studies on visual politics has been the focus on popular visual media including cartoons, film, photography and video games. This paper takes a look at another prominent medium: the comic. Comics provide ample potential starting points for IR scholars and political sociologists: the comic’s aesthetic qualities, that is the way in which it narrates geopolitical events to public audiences through condensed image–word relations, reveals a distinct politics of representation. Thus, the study of comics contributes to a better understanding of visuality—theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. This paper complements existing work by engaging an example outside of familiar European-language contexts. It discusses a comic booklet that was published by the South Korean Ministry of National Defense in the aftermath of the sinking of the Cheonan: a navy vessel that was allegedly sunk by a North Korean torpedo in 2010. Recognizing comics as narrative sites of (geo)politics, the paper explores the booklet’s own way of seeing by discussing its dramatic structure and rhetorical devices. In this way the paper provides an exemplary reading of comics, which can serve as a conceptual basis for future studies in the field.

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素描地缘政治：漫画与天安号沉没案

国际关系（IR）和国际政治社会学（IPS）方面最近的奖学金为图像研究做出了重大贡献。这些关于视觉政治的研究的主要重点是流行的视觉媒体，包括卡通，电影，摄影和视频游戏。本文着眼于另一种突出的媒介：漫画。漫画为投资者关系学者和政治社会学家提供了充足的潜在起点：漫画的美学特质（即通过浓缩的词意关系向公众讲述地缘政治事件的方式）揭示了独特的代表政治。因此，对漫画的研究有助于从理论上，方法上和经验上更好地理解视觉。本文通过在不熟悉的欧洲语言环境之外使用一个示例来补充现有工作。书中讨论了韩国国防部在天安号沉没后出版的一本漫画小册子：一艘海军舰船，据称于2010年被朝鲜鱼雷击沉。将漫画识别为（geo）的叙事地点政治方面，本文通过讨论小册子的戏剧性结构和修辞手法，探索了小册子的观看方式。通过这种方式，本文提供了漫画的示例性阅读，可以作为该领域未来研究的概念基础。这是一艘海军舰船，据称于2010年被朝鲜鱼雷击沉。该论文认识到漫画是（地理）政治的叙事地点，通过讨论其戏剧性的结构和修辞手法，探索了小册子的观看方式。通过这种方式，本文提供了漫画的示例性阅读，可以作为该领域未来研究的概念基础。一艘海军舰船据称于2010年被朝鲜鱼雷击沉。该论文将漫画视为（地缘）政治的叙事地点，并通过讨论其戏剧性的结构和修辞手法探索了这本小册子的观看方式。通过这种方式，本文提供了漫画的示例性阅读，可以作为该领域未来研究的概念基础。