Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Awakening Visions

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List Figures, Diagrams and Table
Contributors
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Structure of the Book
	Part I
	Part II – Practitioner Essays
	Panizza Allmark – Edith Cowan University, Western Australia: Framing a Photographie Féminine: Photography of the City
	Sarah Atkinson – University of Brighton: Mixing Mediums and Methods: Practice-Led Research Into Interactive Screen-Based Production and Reception
	Roger Brown: Photography as Process, Documentary Photographing as Discourse
	Roger Canals: Research as an Eclectic Assemblage: Notes On a Visual Ethnography of the Cult of María Lionza (Venezuela, Barcelona, and the Internet)
	Notes
	References
Part 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?
		Benefits of Visual Approaches
		Notes
		References
	2 The Research Process and Visual Methods
		Ontology
		Epistemology
		Methodologies – Getting Started
		Phenomenology
		Ethnography
		Case Studies
		Representation
		Narrative Research
		Video: Intersubjective Strategies
		Awakening Vision: Developing Visual Research in Sociology
		Ethics and Visual Research
		Methodologies in Action
			1. Autophotography and Photo-Elicitation
				Mapuche Transition From Rural to Urban Context in Chile – Emma Louise Owen
			2. Photo-Documentation and Photo-Essays
				Landscape Painters: Urban Art and Graffiti – Dave Surridge
		Notes
		References
	3 Mapping Society
		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 Multiculturalism
		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
		Notes
		References
	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 Projects
		Notes
		References
	5 Visual Analysis
		Modalities and Sites
		The Intersubjective and Inter-Objective Aspects of Images
		Image, Time and Memory
		Understanding Forms of Visual Analysis
		Semiotic Analysis
		Paradigms and Syntagms
		Denotation and Connotation
		Operation Margarine
		Forms of Discourse Analysis
		Using Archive Images
		Using Multiple Levels of Visual Analysis
		Content Analysis and Electronic Digital Aids
		Notes
		References
Part II Research Practices in Focus
	Introduction to Part II
	6 Framing a Photographie Féminine Photography of the City
		References
	7 Mixing Mediums and Methods Practice-Led Research Into Interactive Screen-Based Production and Reception
		Introduction
		Crossed Lines: Influences and Inspiration
		Crossed Lines: The Installation
			Process
			Scriptwriting
		Production
		Post-Production and Interactive Authoring
		Audience Testing
		Conclusion
		References
	8 Photography as Process, Documentary Photographing as Discourse
		Introduction: Photographing
		Photography Or Photographing?
		Photographing as a Hermeneutic Discourse
		Photographing as Practice
		Some Examples
		Appendix: Case Studies
			HASDiP: The Hulton Abbey Skeleton Digitisation Project
			Place, Space and Identity: Waterside South, Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent
		Note
		References
	9 Research as an Eclectic Assemblage Notes On a Visual Ethnography of the Cult of María Lionza (Venezuela, Barcelona, and the Internet)
		María Lionza and Her Cult
		The Image as Object
		Visual Research Methods and the Act of Looking
		The Image as Discourse
		Image in the Social Sciences
		Notes
		References
	Conclusion
Appendix
	Sites Visited
Glossary
Bibliography
Index