Picturing the Social Landscape: Visual Methods and the Sociological Imagination

by Knowles,Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780415306393
• ISBN10: 0415306396
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas:* self and identity* visualizing domestic space* visualizing urban landscapes* visualizing social change.The collection showcases different methods in different contexts through the examination of a variety of topical issues. Methods covered include photo and video diaries, the use of images produced by respondents, the use of images as prompts in interviews and focus groups, documentary photography, photographic inventory and visual ethnography.The result is an exciting and original collection that will be indispensable for any student, academic or researcher interested in the use of visual methods.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman	1	(17)
INTRODUCTION
John Grady	18	(15)
WORKING WITH VISIBLE EVIDENCE: AN INVITATION AND SOME PRACTICAL ADVICE
PART ONE Picturing the self, identity and domesticated space	33	(82)
1 Elizabeth Chaplin	35	(14)
MY VISUAL DIARY
2 Ruth Holliday	49	(16)
REFLECTING THE SELF
3 Sue Heath and Elizabeth Cleaver	65	(14)
MAPPING THE SPATIAL IN SHARED HOUSEHOLD LIFE: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?
4 Tony Whincup	79	(14)
IMAGING THE INTANGIBLE
5 Douglas Harper	93	(24)
WEDNESDAY-NIGHT BOWLING: REFLECTIONS ON CULTURES OF A RURAL WORKING CLASS
PART TWO Picturing the city, sociality and post-industrial change	115	(83)
6 Alan Latham	117	(15)
RESEARCHING AND WRITING EVERYDAY ACCOUNTS OF THE CITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DIARY-PHOTO DIARY-INTERVIEW METHOD
7 Les Back	132	(15)
With photographs by Nicola Evans, Antonio Genco and Gerard Mitchell
LISTENING WITH OUR EYES: PORTRAITURE AS URBAN ENCOUNTER
8 Charles Suchar	147	(19)
AMSTERDAM AND CHICAGO: SEEING THE MACRO-CHARACTERISTICS OF GENTRIFICATION
9 David Byrne and Aidan Doyle	166	(12)
THE VISUAL AND THE VERBAL: THE INTERACTION OF IMAGES AND DISCUSSION IN EXPLORING CULTURAL CHANGE
10 Ana Maria Mauad and Alicia J. Rouverol	178	(15)
With photographs by Cedric N. Chatterley
TELLING THE STORY OF LINDA LORD THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS
Howard S. Becker	193	(5)
AFTERWORD: PHOTOGRAPHY AS EVIDENCE, PHOTOGRAPHS AS EXPOSITION
Index	198