Images of suffering children have long been used to illustrate the violence and horror of conflict. In recent years, it is images of dead children that have garnered attention from media audiences around the world. In response to the deaths of four children killed by the Israeli army while playing on a Gazan beach, Israeli PrimeMinister Netenyahu accused Hamas of generating "telegenically dead" Palestinian children for their cause (CNN 2014). In this article, it argues with this term to consider the appearance of images of dead children in global politics. I draw on a growing literature relating to the corpse as a subject in international relations (IR), asking how children's bodies are understood, following Butler, as "grievable lives." It explores the notion of "iconic" images and the politics of sharing images of dead bodies and consider global power relations that allow certain children's deaths to be visible and not others. Through this analysis, the article argues that the idea of telegenic death might be productively considered to understand how the fleshy reality of children's deaths contribute to discussions about the representation and visibility of children in contexts of crisis and conflict.

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理解“电视死者”：考虑全球政治中的死者儿童形象

长期以来，受苦儿童的图像一直被用来说明冲突的暴力和恐怖。近年来，正是死去的孩子的照片引起了世界各地媒体观众的关注。针对以色列军队在加沙海滩上玩耍时被以色列军队杀害的四名儿童的死亡，以色列总理内塔尼亚胡指责哈马斯为他们的事业生出“死于电视的人死亡”的巴勒斯坦儿童（CNN，2014年）。在本文中，它用这个术语来考虑在全球政治中死去的孩子形象的出现。我借鉴了与尸体有关的越来越多的文献，这些尸体是国际关系中的一个主题，询问在巴特勒之后，如何将儿童的身体理解为“悲痛的生活”。它探讨了“标志性”的概念 图像和共享尸体图像的政治，并考虑允许某些儿童的死亡可见而其他人则看不到的全球权力关系。通过这一分析，文章认为，可以有效地考虑转基因死亡的概念，以了解儿童死亡的多肉现实如何有助于在危机和冲突情况下讨论儿童的代表性和可见性。