Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences : Awakening Visions (Paperback, 2 ed)

Introduction Section I: Visual research and social realities 1. Visualising social life An Evolving Visual Culture Urban Visions The Cultural Imaginary Is seeing believing Images as Evidence: Seen and Unseen Photographs as ‘Specified Generalisations’ Poetics of the visual Indeterminacy: pareidolia and aberrant decoding Intertextuality The Photograph as Proof of Existence ? The Enigma of the Image Scopic Regimes: Surveillance, spectacles and simulations Technologies: Tools of Oppression or Liberation? Bene?ts of visual approaches Summary 2. The Research Process and Visual Methods Ontology Epistemology Methodologies - Getting started Phenomenology Ethnography Case studies Using multiple levels of visual research Representation/reading strategies1 Narrative research Video: Intersubjective strategies1 Awakening vision: developing visual research in sociology Ethics and visual research9 Methodologies in Action Autophotography, photo-elicitation - Mapuche Transition from Rural to Urban Context in Chile ? Emma Louise Owen Photo-Documentation and Photo-Essays - Landscape Painters: Urban Art and Graffiti - Dave Surridge 3. Mapping society: a ‘sense of place’ Sense of place Maps in visual research Mapping Inner-city sense of place Into the Divide: Community Identities and the Visualisation of Place Locating the site Exploring the city Signs of diversity ? spectres of multiculturalism29 Pandemic Space - The ‘Inertia of the Real’ Video ethnography: walking with a camera Contested Spaces: 1 Africville Contested Spaces: 2 Halfeti ? Only the Fish Shall Visit Contested Spaces 3: Wadjemup / Rottnest Island Traumascapes: Towers on Fire Country ? Far from Nature 4. Visualising identity Nationality, Race and Ethnicity Visual Representations of Age Identity Collective Symbols of Identity El Charro ? Mexican iconography Uneasy Symbols ? Signs of Dissent Seeing Things: Entangled in Material Culture Visual identity and product attributes Body projects25 5. Visual analysis Modalities & Sites The Intersubjective and Inter-objective Aspects of Images Image, Time & Memory Understanding Forms of Visual Analysis Semiotic Analysis Paradigms and syntagms Denotation and Connotation Operation Margarine Forms of discourse analysis Using Archive Images Content Analysis Electronic Digital Aids to Analysis Section II: Research practices in focus 6. Framing a photogaphie feiminine: photography of the city Panizza Allmark 7. Mixing mediums and methods: practice-led research into interactive screen-based production and reception Sarah Atkinson 8. Photography as process, documentary photographing as discourse Roger Brown 9. Research as an eclectic assemblage: Notes on a visual ethnography of the cult of Maria Lionza (Venezuela, Barcelona, and the internet) Roger Canals