التحليل ما بعد البنيوي لصور الطفل العربي : النزاعات العسكرية نموذجا

الملخص EN

The study emphasizes the idea of cross-linking between social theories and research methods by linking the visual methods on the one hand, and the post-structuralist perspective of social theory on the other hand.

In light of this, the problem of the study is to monitor post-structuralist mechanisms in the sociological analysis of images and to use them in analyzing a deliberate sample of children images during periods of armed military conflicts in a number of Arab countries: Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Palestine.

The study relies on the methodology of interaction analysis and semiotic analysis in analyzing seven images of Arab children as victims of war from different social contexts.

As a theoretical framework, these two methodologies get along with post-structuralism, as they rely on analyzing the interactions and symbols inherent in the images, and the context of the image to reveal the structures and deep relation behind the image.

In this regard, the study reaches the results which show the relation between visual sociology and post-structuralism.

The results also clarify the mechanisms of using the image to convey the social reality of children in armed military conflicts.

They show the visual symbolism association with social contexts as an introduction to the interpretation of social reality through images.

Finally, the study recommends that future research be pursued in new disciplines in sociology, such as visual sociology and comparative historical sociology, and paying attention to the disadvantaged groups, such as those displaced from war-torn societies and military conflicts, or victims of war in general, women and children in particular.