M C Cambre
Biographic Data
| ID | 56782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M C Cambre |
| GIVEN NAMES | M C |
| FAMILY NAME | Cambre |
| SIGNATURE | CAMBRE M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0354-6899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The atopic image
Jeremy Stolow for introducing her to the work of Marie-José Mondzain and to peers in COMS 642-893.DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsM. C. CambreMaria-Carolina Cambre's work explores vernacular visual expression asking: How do people produce and direct the visual space? How is the image a doing? What are the social and cultural work/ings of images? Broadly…
What is an Image ? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022
Representing and Reframing Migration
The article presents haptic visuality as a counterpoint to the stragiht line in order to reframe representations of migrants and migration
« Mangez-moi ». L’érotisation de la nourriture et des corps dans la food porn
Bien que la food porn ne constitue évidemment pas une véritable pornographie, elle repose sur un imaginaire culturel qui érotise la nourriture. L’article étudie d’abord certaines de ses conventions iconiques marquantes, établissant que la nourriture y est souvent représentée comme un corps féminin à consommer. Il s’attache ensuite spécifiquement à ce qui survient lorsque dans l’image, de « vrais » corps féminins accompagnent la nourriture. L’anal…
The future of visual studies live roundtable. International Visual Sociology Association 40th annual conference, 7 July 2021
Do I Look Like My Selfie
Filtered faces are some of the most heavily engaged photos on social media. The vast majority of literature on selfies have focused on self-reported practices of creating and posting selfies and how subjects view themselves, but research on using filters and the kinds of looking filter provoke is underexplored. Part of a larger project, this analysis draws from a study using photo-elicitation techniques to discuss selfie filters with 12 focus gro…
How Else Would You Take a Photo? #SelfieAmbivalence
Popular discourse describing selfies as the "narcissistic"2 practice of teenagers or a tool of personal empowerment, minimize the structural constraints under which selfies operate as a ubiquitous mode of sociality. Based on focus group discussions in two Canadian cities, we explore how young adults describe their selfie experiences and explore three discursive tensions expressed in the transcripts. First, how questions of "control" were taken up…
Visibilities and Visual Discourses
With this special issue, we aim to address visibility not just as a representation of the social, but as an aspect and element of social and cultural orders and actions sui generis. The texts in this volume are dedicated to understanding the practices, power relations and the technological infrastructures in which (audio)-visual practices unfold. To make our proposition clear, we lay out a methodological strategy that we-drawing from French, Germ…
Visual criminology and the social image/s of crime
Screened Intimacies
This article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app. In the first half, we ethnographically examine the sociotechnical dynamics of how users navigate the app and take up or resist the subject positions encouraged by the user interface feature of swiping. In the second half, we provide a discussion of the implications of the swi…
Training ‘expendable’ workers
The purpose of this article is to explore the experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers in health care in Alberta, Canada. In 2007–2008, one of the regional health authorities in the province responded to a shortage of workers by recruiting 510 health-care workers internationally; most were trained as Registered Nurses (RNs) in the Philippines. However, the Association of RNs required them to complete an assessment, and in many cases, to complete …
Stealing or Steeling the Image? The Failed Branding of the Guerrillero Heroico Image of Che Guevara
This article traces the ongoing tension between those who would characterize Alberto Korda’s famous image of Che Guevara, The Guerrillero Heroico, as a brand, trademark or logo, and those who insist it is a political/cultural icon and non-commercial and that these categories are mutually exclusive. The question of whether the image has been emptied of political content, and the debate around the copyrighting of an image considered by many to be i…
The Efficacy Of The Virtual
This paper begins by tracing a path through salient developments in semiotic theory regarding the visual. It examines the political functions of cultural and discursive semiotic systems through which graphic images and gestures are appraised, interpreted and given significance: it is not about what they mean, but rather how they construct meanings and how such meanings accrue importance. I consider the simultaneous material and social nature of b…
Revolution Within the Revolution
Terminologies of Control
How did ‘multicultural’ Canada come to be associated with, and blamed for, the harsh Bantustans in South Africa's apartheid regime? How did the word ‘apartheid’ travel back and forth between the ‘Dominion’ and the ‘Union’? Did the word actually make this voyage? By taking Foucault's notion of genealogical method and applying it to a word (instead of an apparatus such as an asylum), I conducted a conceptual inquiry into the specific historically v…
Visibilities and Visual Discourses
With this special issue, we aim to address visibility not just as a representation of the social, but as an aspect and element of social and cultural orders and actions sui generis. The texts in this volume are dedicated to understanding the practices, power relations and the technological infrastructures in which (audio)-visual practices unfold. To make our proposition clear, we lay out a methodological strategy that we-drawing from French, Germ…
Screened Intimacies
This article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app. In the first half, we ethnographically examine the sociotechnical dynamics of how users navigate the app and take up or resist the subject positions encouraged by the user interface feature of swiping. In the second half, we provide a discussion of the implications of the swi…
Do I Look Like My Selfie
Filtered faces are some of the most heavily engaged photos on social media. The vast majority of literature on selfies have focused on self-reported practices of creating and posting selfies and how subjects view themselves, but research on using filters and the kinds of looking filter provoke is underexplored. Part of a larger project, this analysis draws from a study using photo-elicitation techniques to discuss selfie filters with 12 focus gro…
Terminologies of Control
How did ‘multicultural’ Canada come to be associated with, and blamed for, the harsh Bantustans in South Africa's apartheid regime? How did the word ‘apartheid’ travel back and forth between the ‘Dominion’ and the ‘Union’? Did the word actually make this voyage? By taking Foucault's notion of genealogical method and applying it to a word (instead of an apparatus such as an asylum), I conducted a conceptual inquiry into the specific historically v…
How Else Would You Take a Photo? #SelfieAmbivalence
Popular discourse describing selfies as the "narcissistic"2 practice of teenagers or a tool of personal empowerment, minimize the structural constraints under which selfies operate as a ubiquitous mode of sociality. Based on focus group discussions in two Canadian cities, we explore how young adults describe their selfie experiences and explore three discursive tensions expressed in the transcripts. First, how questions of "control" were taken up…
Training ‘expendable’ workers
The purpose of this article is to explore the experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers in health care in Alberta, Canada. In 2007–2008, one of the regional health authorities in the province responded to a shortage of workers by recruiting 510 health-care workers internationally; most were trained as Registered Nurses (RNs) in the Philippines. However, the Association of RNs required them to complete an assessment, and in many cases, to complete …
Revolution Within the Revolution
What is an Image ? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022
Stealing or Steeling the Image? The Failed Branding of the Guerrillero Heroico Image of Che Guevara
This article traces the ongoing tension between those who would characterize Alberto Korda’s famous image of Che Guevara, The Guerrillero Heroico, as a brand, trademark or logo, and those who insist it is a political/cultural icon and non-commercial and that these categories are mutually exclusive. The question of whether the image has been emptied of political content, and the debate around the copyrighting of an image considered by many to be i…
The Efficacy Of The Virtual
This paper begins by tracing a path through salient developments in semiotic theory regarding the visual. It examines the political functions of cultural and discursive semiotic systems through which graphic images and gestures are appraised, interpreted and given significance: it is not about what they mean, but rather how they construct meanings and how such meanings accrue importance. I consider the simultaneous material and social nature of b…
Terminologies of Control
How did ‘multicultural’ Canada come to be associated with, and blamed for, the harsh Bantustans in South Africa's apartheid regime? How did the word ‘apartheid’ travel back and forth between the ‘Dominion’ and the ‘Union’? Did the word actually make this voyage? By taking Foucault's notion of genealogical method and applying it to a word (instead of an apparatus such as an asylum), I conducted a conceptual inquiry into the specific historically v…
Revolution Within the Revolution
Training ‘expendable’ workers
The purpose of this article is to explore the experiences of Temporary Foreign Workers in health care in Alberta, Canada. In 2007–2008, one of the regional health authorities in the province responded to a shortage of workers by recruiting 510 health-care workers internationally; most were trained as Registered Nurses (RNs) in the Philippines. However, the Association of RNs required them to complete an assessment, and in many cases, to complete …
Stealing or Steeling the Image? The Failed Branding of the Guerrillero Heroico Image of Che Guevara
This article traces the ongoing tension between those who would characterize Alberto Korda’s famous image of Che Guevara, The Guerrillero Heroico, as a brand, trademark or logo, and those who insist it is a political/cultural icon and non-commercial and that these categories are mutually exclusive. The question of whether the image has been emptied of political content, and the debate around the copyrighting of an image considered by many to be i…
The Efficacy Of The Virtual
This paper begins by tracing a path through salient developments in semiotic theory regarding the visual. It examines the political functions of cultural and discursive semiotic systems through which graphic images and gestures are appraised, interpreted and given significance: it is not about what they mean, but rather how they construct meanings and how such meanings accrue importance. I consider the simultaneous material and social nature of b…
Screened Intimacies
This article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app. In the first half, we ethnographically examine the sociotechnical dynamics of how users navigate the app and take up or resist the subject positions encouraged by the user interface feature of swiping. In the second half, we provide a discussion of the implications of the swi…
How Else Would You Take a Photo? #SelfieAmbivalence
Popular discourse describing selfies as the "narcissistic"2 practice of teenagers or a tool of personal empowerment, minimize the structural constraints under which selfies operate as a ubiquitous mode of sociality. Based on focus group discussions in two Canadian cities, we explore how young adults describe their selfie experiences and explore three discursive tensions expressed in the transcripts. First, how questions of "control" were taken up…
Visibilities and Visual Discourses
With this special issue, we aim to address visibility not just as a representation of the social, but as an aspect and element of social and cultural orders and actions sui generis. The texts in this volume are dedicated to understanding the practices, power relations and the technological infrastructures in which (audio)-visual practices unfold. To make our proposition clear, we lay out a methodological strategy that we-drawing from French, Germ…
Visual criminology and the social image/s of crime
Do I Look Like My Selfie
Filtered faces are some of the most heavily engaged photos on social media. The vast majority of literature on selfies have focused on self-reported practices of creating and posting selfies and how subjects view themselves, but research on using filters and the kinds of looking filter provoke is underexplored. Part of a larger project, this analysis draws from a study using photo-elicitation techniques to discuss selfie filters with 12 focus gro…
The future of visual studies live roundtable. International Visual Sociology Association 40th annual conference, 7 July 2021
Representing and Reframing Migration
The article presents haptic visuality as a counterpoint to the stragiht line in order to reframe representations of migrants and migration
« Mangez-moi ». L’érotisation de la nourriture et des corps dans la food porn
Bien que la food porn ne constitue évidemment pas une véritable pornographie, elle repose sur un imaginaire culturel qui érotise la nourriture. L’article étudie d’abord certaines de ses conventions iconiques marquantes, établissant que la nourriture y est souvent représentée comme un corps féminin à consommer. Il s’attache ensuite spécifiquement à ce qui survient lorsque dans l’image, de « vrais » corps féminins accompagnent la nourriture. L’anal…
The atopic image
Jeremy Stolow for introducing her to the work of Marie-José Mondzain and to peers in COMS 642-893.DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsM. C. CambreMaria-Carolina Cambre's work explores vernacular visual expression asking: How do people produce and direct the visual space? How is the image a doing? What are the social and cultural work/ings of images? Broadly…
What is an Image ? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (5 works)