Comics as a Research Practice: Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame

ISBN-13: 9780367524661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str.

Giada Peterle

Opis

This book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics. It presents a transdisciplinary approach that uses a set of qualitative, visual methods, and extends from within the geohumanities to across the literary spatial studies, comics, urban, mobility studies and beyond.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Enacting Comic Book Geographies  Part 1: Assembling Comics for Creative Interventions in Urban Space  2. Comics as Assemblages: Building Urban Stories in the Public Sphere  3. Doing Urban Comics: Ethnographic Strolling Across ‘Peripheral’ Neighbourhoods  Part 2: Moving Comics from Representation to Practice  4. Graphic Mobilities: Mobile Practices, Bodies, and Landscapes of Movement in Comics  5. Doing Comics on the Move: An Autoethnographic Account of Geographic Fieldwork

O autorze

Giada Peterle is a cultural geographer, lecturer in literary geography at the University of Padua, Italy, and cartoonist. She works on ‘narrative geographies’, experimenting with mobile methods, creative mapping, and art-based practices. Her work on literary geographies, comic book cartographies, graphic geography, and carto-fiction is published in international journals like Social & Cultural Geography and Cultural Geographies.