Doing Visual Research / Edition 1

by Claudia Mitchell

Overview

This is an innovative introduction to the use of photography, collaborative video, drawing, objects, multi-media production and installation in research. Claudia Mitchell explains how visual methods can be used as modes of inquiry as well as modes of representation for social research. She provides a range of conceptual and practical approaches to a variety of tools and methods, while also highlighting the interpretive and ethical issues that arise when engaging in visual research. She draws on her own work throughout to offer extensive examples from a variety of settings and with various populations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412945837
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/25/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Claudia Mitchell is a James Mc Gill Professor in the Faculty of Education, Mc Gill University where she is the Director of the Mc Gill Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and Director of the Participatory Cultures Lab. She is an Honorary Professor in the School of Education, University of Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa. She was the 2016 recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Gold Medal awarded for the impact of her research which cuts across a number of areas including girlhood studies, youth, sexuality, and HIV and AIDS, gender violence, and teacher identity, and in a number of countries including Canada, South Africa, Russia, Ethiopia, and Kenya . As a methodologist she is particularly interested in participatory visual research, memory work and material culture, and autoethnography.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Getting the Picture
On a Pedagogy of Ethics in Visual Research
Who's in the Picture?
PART TWO: VISUAL METHODS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
Not Just an Object
Working with Things, Objects and Artefacts in Visual Research
Seeing for Ourselves
A Case for Community-Based Photography
Community-Based Video-Making
PART THREE: ON INTERPRETING AND USING IMAGES
Working with Photo Images
A Textual Reading on the Presence of Absence
Data Collections and Building a Democratic Archive
'No More Pictures without a Context' (with Naydene de Lange)
Look and See
Images of Image-Making
What Can a Visual Researcher Do with a Camera?
Changing the Picture
How Can Images Influence Policy-Making?

Editorial Reviews

Doing Visual Research offers an excellent starting point for imagining how visual methods might be fruitfully employed.

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