Peace with Visual Qualities

Originally, this post served as my final research paper for the course ‘Popular Culture as History’ which I took while on Nordlys exchange at Uppsala University, Sweden. I had been looking into graphic recording for some time in the framework of my thesis (see the previous post ), and wanted to consider this novel practice in the context of both popular culture and peace for that course. The text is unchanged from what was submitted as the final assignment. (By the way, I got a “VG” for the course – meaning “pass with distinction” - in that case the highest grade one can get.) The course was offered by the History Department of Uppsala University. It consisted of a series of weekly seminars (no lectures!), where students critically discussed ideas from weekly readings. More often than not, the weekly reading task would be to read a whole book (perhaps with small written tasks or other short readings). I vividly remember discussing my idea for the final paper with a group of enthusiasti