Doing Visual Research

Description:
'Doing Visual Research' offers 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. The book looks at a range of conceptual and practical approaches to a range of tools and methods, whilst also highlighting the interpretive and ethical issues that arise when engaging in visual research. Claudia Mitchell draws on her own work in the field of visual research throughout to offer extensive examples from a variety of settings and with a variety of populations. The topics covered include: photographs and memory work studies; drawing as a participatory visual methodology; and working with images/writing about images. Can visual methods make a difference? From practice to policy 'Doing Visual Research' takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of visual research, producing a practical introduction to the subject that will be of great use to students and researchers across the social sciences, and in particular in education, communication, sociology, gender, development, social work and public health.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: GETTING STARTED Introduction: Why Visual Studies for Social Change? Ethical Issues in Visual Research PART TWO: VISUAL METHODS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES Photographs and Memory Work Studies Seeing for Ourselves through Photo-Voice Participatory Video Drawing as a Participatory Visual Methodology Objects-in-Inquiry: Things, Artefacts, Objects, Documents and Texts PART THREE: ON INTERPRETING AND USING IMAGES Working with Images/Writing about Images The Politics of Display: Aesthetics and Technicalities Can Visual Methods Make a Difference? From Practice to Policy