L Pauwels
Biographic Data
| ID | 10986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Pauwels |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Pauwels |
| SIGNATURE | PAUWELS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0478-9582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Regarding Borders and Boundaries
Luc Pawels on the dynamic processes of "bordering."
Moving boundaries: Visual Sociology Meets Border Studies
Blackboard voices
"Blackboard voices." Visual Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLuc PauwelsLuc Pauwels is Emeritus Professor of Visual Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Antwerp (Faculty of Social Sciences), and President of the 'Visual Sociology' Research Committee (RC57) of the International Sociological Assoc…
Border Matters and Metaphors
This portfolio attempts to express the expanding concept of borders, and boundaries through photographic images of objects and situations taken from various contexts, often unrelated to the geopolitical sphere. Scrutinizing borders and boundaries for the past several years as part of a funded project and realizing that borders are omnipresent and all-pervading led me to 'see' borders everywhere. And so, I started photographing real and potential …
Society in sight: Foundations, methods and current developments of visual social science
This article presents a balanced account of visual social science in its successive emanations. It starts by defining the basic traits and assumptions of the visual study of culture and society and then moves to briefly sketch its origins in camera-based research and its gradual institutionalization. Then a discussion follows of the more recent period which is characterized by a broadening of the field of view in many respects: other non-camera b…
Making life stories visible: An ethnographic study of body mapping in the context of HIV and Aids in South Africa
This paper analyses the lived experiences of people living with HIV in South Africa through the use of body mapping as a visual research method, by focusing on the physical and symbolic use of the body within the broader context of anthropology and medical anthropology. The study consists of an empirical analysis of the body maps themselves and the accompanied narratives of seven participants, six female and one male participant living with HIV i…
Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives
The past several decades, significant theoretical, epistemological and methodological changes occurred in border research. In addition to their traditional territorial geo-political conception, borders now manifest themselves in more abstract and symbolic dimensions within geopolitical borderlands and beyond, in different cultural settings, and through a diversity of interpersonal and inter-group encounters. This article contributes to border res…
Contemplating ‘visual studies’ as an emerging transdisciplinary endeavour
Validating visuals: A socio-semiotic instrument for an informed production and use of visual representations
Visual representations serve a multitude of crucial functions in the creation and dissemination of knowledge and information. They may take many different forms and refer to different phenomena or processes. Making valid decisions how particular visuals should look like presupposes a thorough insight in the nature of the referent or subject of the visual representation, the complex intermediate processes and technologies that are used to produce …
Visual Expressiveness' in Camera-Based Research and Communication
“Visual Expression,” understood here as the purposeful application of formal parameters of a medium to produce meaning, constitutes a crucial element of a (more) visual social science that seeks not only to produce visual records of culture and society, but also strives to communicate disciplinary informed/grounded findings, insights and arguments in a partly visual and multimodal manner. This article discusses and exemplifies the pivotal role of…
An Integrated Conceptual and Methodological Framework for the Visual Study of Culture and Society
Visual and Multimodal Framing Analysis
Interrogating urban projections in audio-visual ‘smart city’ narratives
Worlds of (in)difference: A visual essay on globalisation and sustainability
The ubiquitously used term ‘globalisation’ seems inadequate to designate a group of interrelated but often conflicting processes of interconnectedness of such an unseen complexity and magnitude.Unsurprisingly scholars, as well as political actors, and communities are at odds with respect to gauging the nature and impact of globalisation and its effects on national and ethnic cultures and on humanity as a whole. Closely connected to the problemati…
The shared stories that written words tell when no one is reading: Exploring modality in typographic landscapes as an ecosocial semiotic system
In this article, the authors argue that typography at times functions as a primary semiotic resource when compared to the semantic meaning of text. The central inquiry further claims that this phenomenon is not an exception but, instead, a fundamental characteristic of systematic relationships in the broader semiotic network and may be understood from this perspective. The study explores typographic meaning as an ecosocial semiotic network to res…
Exposing globalization: Visual approaches to researching global interconnectivity in the urban everyday
This article explores how visual approaches to globalization as expressed and enacted in everyday life may enrich and complement the more abstract and mainly quantitatively supported discourses around this convoluted phenomenon. Visual methods, with their focus on empirically observable aspects of culture, indeed have the capacity to uncover forms of global interconnectivity in urban settings, by looking carefully at the material environment and …
Working Mechanically or Organically: Climate change journalist and news frames in mainstream and alternative media
Climate change frames in the media affect the political and public debate. However, focusing on the frames in texts, most framing research overlooks the factors which influence frame-building by reporters. However, this is crucial for a fuller understanding of the potential implications and meanings of frames. Besides, the existing frame-building research is exclusively engaged with mainstream media. Also, visual frame-building is under-researche…
Visual Research Methods
Visual research methods in social science exemplify the view that valid and unique insights into culture and society can be acquired by carefully observing, analyzing, and theorizing its visual dimensions and manifestations: the visible behavior of people and aspects of material culture. This array of methods ranges from analyzing existing or “found” visual data from a variety of sources to the production of visual materials by the researcher (as…
Reframing Visual Social Science: Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology
The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science provides a well-balanced, critical-constructive and systematic overview of existing and emerging modes of visual social and cultural research. The boo…
Participatory' visual research revisited: A critical-constructive assessment of epistemological, methodological and social activist tenets
The current proliferation of often not so distinct 'participatory' approaches and labels (photo-voice, photo-novella, community video, auto-driven photo-elicitation) can be traced back to two distinct techniques or research approaches with a long history - namely the use of visual stimuli in an interview situation and the idea of stimulating the field to produce its own imagery with respect to a certain issue. This article aims to clarify the spe…
Special issue: Difference and globalization
Our original aspiration for this special issue was to attract a broad base of visual communication scholars working on the nexus of difference and globalization, with the aim of defining the substance and assessing the significance of this particular dialectic in our field. While globalization does entail the ever-growing significance of deterritorialized practices and transcultural flows, these connections, movements and exchanges still largely …
World cities reframed: A visual take on globalization
A Multimodal Framework for Analyzing Websites as Cultural Expressions
Departing from a broad conceptualization of culture and the need for a more adapted and sophisticated tool to disclose the internet as a rich cultural data source, this article provides the foundations of a multimodal framework for analyzing websites from both a medium specific and socio-cultural perspective. The 6-phased framework of website signifiers contains both a structured repository of potential cultural signifiers and a methodology for m…
Conceptualising the 'Visual Essay' as a Way of Generating and Imparting Sociological Insight: Issues, Formats and Realisations
This article discusses and exemplifies a more visual and expressive way of constructing and presenting sociological insight. It seeks to articulate the specific demands, traits and potentials of the 'visual essay' as a societal and sociological practice and format. In particular it provides some observations, propositions and arguments that may further help to clarify what the visual sociological essay, as an unorthodox scholarly product, might e…
Researching Websites as Social and Cultural Expressions: Methodological Predicaments and a Multimodal Model for Analysis
The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods
Preface: Aims And Organization Of This Handbook PART ONE: FRAMING THE FIELD OF VISUAL RESEARCH An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Visual Social Research - Luc Pauwels Looking Two Ways: Mapping the Social Scientific Study of Visual Culture - Richard Chalfen Visual Studies and Empirical Social Inquiry - Jon Wagner Seeing Things: Visual Research and Material Culture - Jon Wagner PART TWO: PRODUCING VISUAL DATA AND INSIGHT Anthropological Film Ma…
Participatory' visual research revisited: A critical-constructive assessment of epistemological, methodological and social activist tenets
The current proliferation of often not so distinct 'participatory' approaches and labels (photo-voice, photo-novella, community video, auto-driven photo-elicitation) can be traced back to two distinct techniques or research approaches with a long history - namely the use of visual stimuli in an interview situation and the idea of stimulating the field to produce its own imagery with respect to a certain issue. This article aims to clarify the spe…
Visual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research
Visual research is still a rather dispersed and ill-defined domain within the social sciences. Despite a heightened interest in using visuals in research, efforts toward a more unified conceptual and methodological framework for dealing vigilantly with the specifics of this (relatively) new way of scholarly thinking and doing remain sparse and limited in scope. In this article, the author proposes a more encompassing and refined analytical framew…
A Multimodal Framework for Analyzing Websites as Cultural Expressions
Departing from a broad conceptualization of culture and the need for a more adapted and sophisticated tool to disclose the internet as a rich cultural data source, this article provides the foundations of a multimodal framework for analyzing websites from both a medium specific and socio-cultural perspective. The 6-phased framework of website signifiers contains both a structured repository of potential cultural signifiers and a methodology for m…
Taking the visual turn in research and scholarly communication key issues in developing a more visually literate (social) science
This article identifies some major impediments on the road to more visually literate forms of research and scholarly communication and advances some ideas for improvement. These recommendations relate to each of the following issues: the indispensable awareness for the magnitude of types of visual representations and their distinct implications, the need for clarifying the role of aesthetics in a scientific discourse, the need for a more explicit…
Websites as visual and multimodal cultural expressions: Opportunities and issues of online hybrid media research
Researching Visual Manifestations of Border Spaces and Experiences: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives
The past several decades, significant theoretical, epistemological and methodological changes occurred in border research. In addition to their traditional territorial geo-political conception, borders now manifest themselves in more abstract and symbolic dimensions within geopolitical borderlands and beyond, in different cultural settings, and through a diversity of interpersonal and inter-group encounters. This article contributes to border res…
Conceptualising the 'Visual Essay' as a Way of Generating and Imparting Sociological Insight: Issues, Formats and Realisations
This article discusses and exemplifies a more visual and expressive way of constructing and presenting sociological insight. It seeks to articulate the specific demands, traits and potentials of the 'visual essay' as a societal and sociological practice and format. In particular it provides some observations, propositions and arguments that may further help to clarify what the visual sociological essay, as an unorthodox scholarly product, might e…
Exposing globalization: Visual approaches to researching global interconnectivity in the urban everyday
This article explores how visual approaches to globalization as expressed and enacted in everyday life may enrich and complement the more abstract and mainly quantitatively supported discourses around this convoluted phenomenon. Visual methods, with their focus on empirically observable aspects of culture, indeed have the capacity to uncover forms of global interconnectivity in urban settings, by looking carefully at the material environment and …
Ethical Issues of Online (Visual) Research
The World Wide Web has been discovered by anthropologists and other social and cultural scientists as a particularly rich venue in many respects: as a field of study, a research tool, and a means f
The visual essay: Affinities and divergences between the social scientific and the social documentary modes
This article examines the visual essay as a special verbal/visual mode of expression that is practised both by social scientists and social documentarians, although still on a very limited scale. Examining some of their commonalities and differences sheds light on the particularities of the scientific versus the social documentary approach more generally. To conclude, a photo‐essay from a social documentary photographer is discussed, as it comes …
Special issue: Difference and globalization
Our original aspiration for this special issue was to attract a broad base of visual communication scholars working on the nexus of difference and globalization, with the aim of defining the substance and assessing the significance of this particular dialectic in our field. While globalization does entail the ever-growing significance of deterritorialized practices and transcultural flows, these connections, movements and exchanges still largely …
Managing impressions On visually decoding the workplace as a symbolic environment
This paper sheds light on the way by which corporations visually communicate their values and norms through the deliberate and/or less conscious construction of the material environment. Studying these cultural products and other material traces allows us to gain significant information about aspects of a corporation's culture which other‐wise often remain intangible or inaccessible. Some results of visual fieldwork in a Norwegian multi‐national …
Interrogating urban projections in audio-visual ‘smart city’ narratives
Street Discourse: A Visual Essay on Urban Signification
No abstract available
Society in sight: Foundations, methods and current developments of visual social science
This article presents a balanced account of visual social science in its successive emanations. It starts by defining the basic traits and assumptions of the visual study of culture and society and then moves to briefly sketch its origins in camera-based research and its gradual institutionalization. Then a discussion follows of the more recent period which is characterized by a broadening of the field of view in many respects: other non-camera b…
Validating visuals: A socio-semiotic instrument for an informed production and use of visual representations
Visual representations serve a multitude of crucial functions in the creation and dissemination of knowledge and information. They may take many different forms and refer to different phenomena or processes. Making valid decisions how particular visuals should look like presupposes a thorough insight in the nature of the referent or subject of the visual representation, the complex intermediate processes and technologies that are used to produce …
Working Mechanically or Organically: Climate change journalist and news frames in mainstream and alternative media
Climate change frames in the media affect the political and public debate. However, focusing on the frames in texts, most framing research overlooks the factors which influence frame-building by reporters. However, this is crucial for a fuller understanding of the potential implications and meanings of frames. Besides, the existing frame-building research is exclusively engaged with mainstream media. Also, visual frame-building is under-researche…
World cities reframed: A visual take on globalization
Moving boundaries: Visual Sociology Meets Border Studies
Border Matters and Metaphors
This portfolio attempts to express the expanding concept of borders, and boundaries through photographic images of objects and situations taken from various contexts, often unrelated to the geopolitical sphere. Scrutinizing borders and boundaries for the past several years as part of a funded project and realizing that borders are omnipresent and all-pervading led me to 'see' borders everywhere. And so, I started photographing real and potential …
The shared stories that written words tell when no one is reading: Exploring modality in typographic landscapes as an ecosocial semiotic system
In this article, the authors argue that typography at times functions as a primary semiotic resource when compared to the semantic meaning of text. The central inquiry further claims that this phenomenon is not an exception but, instead, a fundamental characteristic of systematic relationships in the broader semiotic network and may be understood from this perspective. The study explores typographic meaning as an ecosocial semiotic network to res…
Notes d'ethnobotanique ntándu (Kongo) - Principales plantes de la région de Kisaántu: Noms ntándu et noms scientifiques
The visual essay: Affinities and divergences between the social scientific and the social documentary modes
This article examines the visual essay as a special verbal/visual mode of expression that is practised both by social scientists and social documentarians, although still on a very limited scale. Examining some of their commonalities and differences sheds light on the particularities of the scientific versus the social documentary approach more generally. To conclude, a photo‐essay from a social documentary photographer is discussed, as it comes …
Managing impressions On visually decoding the workplace as a symbolic environment
This paper sheds light on the way by which corporations visually communicate their values and norms through the deliberate and/or less conscious construction of the material environment. Studying these cultural products and other material traces allows us to gain significant information about aspects of a corporation's culture which other‐wise often remain intangible or inaccessible. Some results of visual fieldwork in a Norwegian multi‐national …
Social perspectives: Posing for Posterity
article Free Access Share on Social perspectives: posing for posterity Author: Luc Pauwels Univ. of Antwerp in Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium Univ. of Antwerp in Belgium, Antwerp, BelgiumView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 6Issue 6Nov.-Dec. 1999 pp 26–31https://doi.org/10.1145/319404.320259Online:01 November 1999Publication History 0citation609DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads609Last 12 Months113Last 6 weeks11 Get Citat…
Bibliographie générale
I. Constitution historique et devenirs actuels de la photographie anthropologique – Histoire générale de la photographie BENJAMIN W., 1983. « Petite histoire de la photographie », inEssais I, 1922‐1934. Paris, Denoël : 149‐168. DIAS N., 1999. « La fiabilité de l’œil », Terrain, 33 (sept.) : 17‐30. FRIZOT M. (éd.), 1994. Nouvelle histoire de la photographie. Paris, Bordas (importante bibliographie). LA LUMIERE, 1995. Réimpression des numéros parus…
Taking the visual turn in research and scholarly communication key issues in developing a more visually literate (social) science
This article identifies some major impediments on the road to more visually literate forms of research and scholarly communication and advances some ideas for improvement. These recommendations relate to each of the following issues: the indispensable awareness for the magnitude of types of visual representations and their distinct implications, the need for clarifying the role of aesthetics in a scientific discourse, the need for a more explicit…
The video- and multimedia-article as a mode of scholarly communication: Toward scientifically informed expression and aesthetics
Social scientists in today's rapidly evolving technological culture face the challenge of employing new and more established visual technologies in all their facets. This article proposes to incorporate those new and more established visual technologies from more media literate, culturally and scientifically informed perspective. First, a brief introduction this multifaceted issue in the past and current context of anthropological and sociologica…
Websites as visual and multimodal cultural expressions: Opportunities and issues of online hybrid media research
Ethical Issues of Online (Visual) Research
The World Wide Web has been discovered by anthropologists and other social and cultural scientists as a particularly rich venue in many respects: as a field of study, a research tool, and a means f
A private visual practice going public? Social functions and sociological research opportunities of Web‐based family photography
Family websites represent one of the more interesting areas of research into cultural change and reproduction. They also compellingly demonstrate the complex role of technology in both cultural processes. As the latest example of the long‐established practice of family photography, these hybrid multimedia products have followed the path of the analogue photograph, framed and displayed in the home, kept in wallets or presented as series of picture…
An integrated model for conceptualising visual competence in scientific research and communication
Visual representation in both natural and social sciences is an important and growing area of research and an ever‐growing practice, given the rapidly developing visual imaging technologies. This article seeks to contribute to our understanding of the complex processes and decisions that go into producing and using visual representations as prime vehicles of knowledge building and dissemination. To that aim the author develops an integrated theor…
Street Discourse: A Visual Essay on Urban Signification
No abstract available
Visual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research
Visual research is still a rather dispersed and ill-defined domain within the social sciences. Despite a heightened interest in using visuals in research, efforts toward a more unified conceptual and methodological framework for dealing vigilantly with the specifics of this (relatively) new way of scholarly thinking and doing remain sparse and limited in scope. In this article, the author proposes a more encompassing and refined analytical framew…
Researching Websites as Social and Cultural Expressions: Methodological Predicaments and a Multimodal Model for Analysis
An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Visual Social Research
The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods
Preface: Aims And Organization Of This Handbook PART ONE: FRAMING THE FIELD OF VISUAL RESEARCH An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Visual Social Research - Luc Pauwels Looking Two Ways: Mapping the Social Scientific Study of Visual Culture - Richard Chalfen Visual Studies and Empirical Social Inquiry - Jon Wagner Seeing Things: Visual Research and Material Culture - Jon Wagner PART TWO: PRODUCING VISUAL DATA AND INSIGHT Anthropological Film Ma…
A Multimodal Framework for Analyzing Websites as Cultural Expressions
Departing from a broad conceptualization of culture and the need for a more adapted and sophisticated tool to disclose the internet as a rich cultural data source, this article provides the foundations of a multimodal framework for analyzing websites from both a medium specific and socio-cultural perspective. The 6-phased framework of website signifiers contains both a structured repository of potential cultural signifiers and a methodology for m…
Conceptualising the 'Visual Essay' as a Way of Generating and Imparting Sociological Insight: Issues, Formats and Realisations
This article discusses and exemplifies a more visual and expressive way of constructing and presenting sociological insight. It seeks to articulate the specific demands, traits and potentials of the 'visual essay' as a societal and sociological practice and format. In particular it provides some observations, propositions and arguments that may further help to clarify what the visual sociological essay, as an unorthodox scholarly product, might e…
Special issue: Difference and globalization
Our original aspiration for this special issue was to attract a broad base of visual communication scholars working on the nexus of difference and globalization, with the aim of defining the substance and assessing the significance of this particular dialectic in our field. While globalization does entail the ever-growing significance of deterritorialized practices and transcultural flows, these connections, movements and exchanges still largely …
World cities reframed: A visual take on globalization
Reframing Visual Social Science: Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology
The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science provides a well-balanced, critical-constructive and systematic overview of existing and emerging modes of visual social and cultural research. The boo…
Participatory' visual research revisited: A critical-constructive assessment of epistemological, methodological and social activist tenets
The current proliferation of often not so distinct 'participatory' approaches and labels (photo-voice, photo-novella, community video, auto-driven photo-elicitation) can be traced back to two distinct techniques or research approaches with a long history - namely the use of visual stimuli in an interview situation and the idea of stimulating the field to produce its own imagery with respect to a certain issue. This article aims to clarify the spe…
Visual Research Methods
Visual research methods in social science exemplify the view that valid and unique insights into culture and society can be acquired by carefully observing, analyzing, and theorizing its visual dimensions and manifestations: the visible behavior of people and aspects of material culture. This array of methods ranges from analyzing existing or “found” visual data from a variety of sources to the production of visual materials by the researcher (as…
Working Mechanically or Organically: Climate change journalist and news frames in mainstream and alternative media
Climate change frames in the media affect the political and public debate. However, focusing on the frames in texts, most framing research overlooks the factors which influence frame-building by reporters. However, this is crucial for a fuller understanding of the potential implications and meanings of frames. Besides, the existing frame-building research is exclusively engaged with mainstream media. Also, visual frame-building is under-researche…
Worlds of (in)difference: A visual essay on globalisation and sustainability
The ubiquitously used term ‘globalisation’ seems inadequate to designate a group of interrelated but often conflicting processes of interconnectedness of such an unseen complexity and magnitude.Unsurprisingly scholars, as well as political actors, and communities are at odds with respect to gauging the nature and impact of globalisation and its effects on national and ethnic cultures and on humanity as a whole. Closely connected to the problemati…
Sociology (34 works) · Computer Science (25 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Art (15 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (15 works) · Visual arts (15 works) · Social science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (12 works)