Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of 'visualism' in our globalized, technified society. This text raises the issue of the rehabilitation of vision and contextualises vision in the debate on the construction of local knowledge vs. the…
Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body & the senses hinge on a critique of 'visualism' in our globalized, technified society. This text raises the issue of the rehabilitation of vision and contextualises vision in the debate on the construction of local knowledge vs. the h…
"Based on ethnographic research with asylum seekers living in a 'direct provision' centre in Ireland, and comprising participatory visual methods, this work offers a unique examination of the 'direct provision' system that analyses the tensions between exclusion and marginalizat…
La figuration n'est pas tout entière livrée à la fantaisie expressive de ceux qui font des images. On ne figure que ce que l'on perçoit ou imagine, et l'on n'imagine et ne perçoit que ce que l'habitude nous a enseigné à discerner. Le chemin visuel que nous traçons spontanément d…
« La figuration n'est pas tout entière livrée à la fantaisie expressive de ceux qui font des images. On ne figure que ce que l'on perçoit ou imagine, et l'on n'imagine et ne perçoit que ce que l'habitude nous a enseigné à discerner. Le chemin visuel que nous traçons spontanément…
From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs. In the 1920…
Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.
«Building on the "studying up" and "studying at home" trend in Anthropology, this methods book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenge and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw fro…
"Images have become an integral part of the political regulation of migration: they help produce categories of legality versus illegality, foster stereotypes, and mobilize political convictions. Yet how are we to understand the relationship between these images and the political…