Silhouettes analysis
A Posthuman Method for Visualizing and Examining the Material World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2404219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grit Höppner (0000-0001-9897-445X, Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Münster, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 578-593 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7941 • E-ISSN: 1741-3109 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468794121999015 |
| OpenAlex | W3155500459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
In recent decades, postmodern, poststructuralist, and social constructivist theories, and the methodologies and methods they have informed, have been criticized for focusing primarily on human actors, discourses, and actions. Simultaneously, so-called posthuman theories have been developed that decentralize the human, reject an unquestioned use of the dualism of human/nonhuman, and emphasize the importance of the material world in the production of the social. A key concern for current qualitative inquiry is to develop methods that contribute to the critique of human-centered analysis. In this article, I explore what we learn about the material world when we do not use verbal methods or written data but image details of moveable formations, which are made into silhouettes using Karen Barad's agential realism. After introducing posthuman methodology I perform a silhouettes analysis focusing on old age. The intention is to demonstrate that silhouettes analysis makes it possible to gain new insights into the features of materialities of old age in a way that classical image analysis would not allow. In addition, silhouettes analysis produces an alienation effect that disturbs practiced viewing habits and assumptions, and can thus serve as a research tool promoting reflection. I conclude with a discussion of the advantages and limitations of silhouettes analysis for gerontological and posthuman research
Aesthetics · Alienation · Dualism · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Social constructivism · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
Influence of materiality in professional geriatric care
Distributed age(ing)
Carving and making space through dance – Older people using dance to experience their ageing body and challenge ageist discourse
Wellbeing and aging in person-home-assemblages
Old’ Materialisms vs. ‘New’ Materialisms in Ageing Research
Seeing Things
Anti-Aging als Form der Lebensführung
Pflegedinge
Posthumanist Performativity
Reassembling the Social
Where and How Do Aging Processes Take Place in Everyday Life? Answers From a New Materialist Perspective
The challenge of creating ‘alternative’ images of ageing
Visualizing risk
Dinge in Bewegung - zum Rollenwandel materieller Objekte
Posthumanism as research methodology
Orientating to Assembling
Assemblage analysis
Enactments of a new materialist ethnography
Doing age
Visibilities and Visual Discourses
Backstage With The Hot Flashes
Embodying of the self during interviews
Key practices of the transition to parenthood
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |