Visual Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Awakening Visions

ISBN-13: 9781032168784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 456 str.

Stephen Spencer

Opis

An indispensable resource for students, researchers and teachers seeking to use visual sources in their research and understand how images work. This fully updated edition adds questions and activities, new images and models as well as additional exploration of social and theoretical contexts and examples of current visual research.

Spis treści

Introduction  Section I:2Visual research and social realities  1. Visualising social life  2. The Research Process and Visual Methods  3. Mapping society: a ‘sense of place’  4. Visualising identity  5. Visual analysis  Section II: Research practices in focus  6. Framing a photogaphie feìminine: photography of the city  7. Mixing mediums and methods: practice-led research into interactive screen-based production and reception  8. Photography as process, documentary photographing as discourse  9. Research as an eclectic assemblage: Notes on a visual ethnography of the cult of María Lionza (Venezuela, Barcelona, and the internet)

O autorze

Stephen Spencer retired as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in 2020. His research interests include the visual and popular cultural mediation of social and political values in everyday life, the exploration of ‘race’ and ethnicity, media representation and social identities. He is the author of ‘A Dream Deferred’: Guyana Under the Shadow of Colonialism (Hansib, 2006) and Race and Ethnicity: Culture, Identity and Representation (Second Edition, Routledge, 2014), which concerned the ways in which people are classified and the role of images in popular culture as a means of circulating mythical concepts of ‘race’ and multicultural identity. His more recent research has focused on visual methodologies for research and teaching as well as exploring urban divisions, including Africville in Nova Scotia in 2008 and Sheffield in South Yorkshire in 2013–18. He has also produced short video pieces on consumerism, moral panics, media representation of the Iraq conflict, homeless Aborigines in Darwin and the complex meanings of multiculturalism.