Patrick G Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 276669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick G Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick G |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6420-3101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gestalt contexture and contested motives
This article is situated in ongoing discussions about the influx of images of police violence. To date, much scholarship has centred on Foucauldian notions of knowledge-power and sousveillance . Alternatively, I attend to how video evidence produces understanding of police violence in court through a case study of the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager who shot and killed Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. While audio and video…
Les caméras portatives utilisées par les forces policières
Si l’on se penche sur les études portant sur l’usage de caméras portatives par les forces policières, on constate que le corpus est minime, et qu’il examine surtout d’éventuels effets dissuasifs de ces dispositifs quant au recours à la force par les policiers, et quant au comportement des citoyens lors des interactions avec ces derniers. La présente étude prend appui sur nos précédents travaux, sur des preuves empiriques ainsi que sur quelques an…
Locating 'Truths' as a Call for Methodological Reflection
Common Sense Geography” and the Elected Official
In fields such as Sociology and Political Science, there have been, over the course of three decades, attempts to engage elected officials in “Evidence-Based Decision-Making”. Evidence is generally conceived as “expert” advice provided to politicians. A question that has gained more centrality in recent years is “why do elected officials not trust expert opinion or technical evidence?” and the answer to this question has been sought in historical…
The Documentary Method of [Video] Interpretation
Can Politicians Afford Knowledge? Evidence as Affordance in New Governance Oversight Arrangements
How do politicians see constituencies? Various academics have furnished elected officials with effective evidence of activities on the assumption that “better” information inevitably leads to better decisions. I propose we consider official information as seeings. I discuss how constituencies are seen or made sense of in a municipal scrutiny committee meeting in England. Using the notion of “affordance,” I will discuss not only how official evide…
Ethnography and Industry
Handling Digital Brains
Interpretive Asymmetry, Retrospective Inquiry and the Explication of Action in an Incident of Friendly Fire
Video Abstract
War-making and sense-making
In this paper we analyse a 'friendly fire' incident from the second Gulf War and the controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner's inquest in 2007. Focusing on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked to the media during that inquest, we examine what the military and civilian investigators were involved in reconstructing: the incident as it unfolded in real time. Our analysis is grounded in a praxeological perspective that draw…
War-making and sense-making
In this paper we analyse a 'friendly fire' incident from the second Gulf War and the controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner's inquest in 2007. Focusing on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked to the media during that inquest, we examine what the military and civilian investigators were involved in reconstructing: the incident as it unfolded in real time. Our analysis is grounded in a praxeological perspective that draw…
Interpretive Asymmetry, Retrospective Inquiry and the Explication of Action in an Incident of Friendly Fire
Video Abstract
Gestalt contexture and contested motives
This article is situated in ongoing discussions about the influx of images of police violence. To date, much scholarship has centred on Foucauldian notions of knowledge-power and sousveillance . Alternatively, I attend to how video evidence produces understanding of police violence in court through a case study of the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager who shot and killed Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. While audio and video…
The Documentary Method of [Video] Interpretation
Les caméras portatives utilisées par les forces policières
Si l’on se penche sur les études portant sur l’usage de caméras portatives par les forces policières, on constate que le corpus est minime, et qu’il examine surtout d’éventuels effets dissuasifs de ces dispositifs quant au recours à la force par les policiers, et quant au comportement des citoyens lors des interactions avec ces derniers. La présente étude prend appui sur nos précédents travaux, sur des preuves empiriques ainsi que sur quelques an…
War-making and sense-making
In this paper we analyse a 'friendly fire' incident from the second Gulf War and the controversy which came to envelop it during a coroner's inquest in 2007. Focusing on the cockpit video of the incident that was leaked to the media during that inquest, we examine what the military and civilian investigators were involved in reconstructing: the incident as it unfolded in real time. Our analysis is grounded in a praxeological perspective that draw…
Interpretive Asymmetry, Retrospective Inquiry and the Explication of Action in an Incident of Friendly Fire
Video Abstract
Handling Digital Brains
Can Politicians Afford Knowledge? Evidence as Affordance in New Governance Oversight Arrangements
How do politicians see constituencies? Various academics have furnished elected officials with effective evidence of activities on the assumption that “better” information inevitably leads to better decisions. I propose we consider official information as seeings. I discuss how constituencies are seen or made sense of in a municipal scrutiny committee meeting in England. Using the notion of “affordance,” I will discuss not only how official evide…
Ethnography and Industry
Common Sense Geography” and the Elected Official
In fields such as Sociology and Political Science, there have been, over the course of three decades, attempts to engage elected officials in “Evidence-Based Decision-Making”. Evidence is generally conceived as “expert” advice provided to politicians. A question that has gained more centrality in recent years is “why do elected officials not trust expert opinion or technical evidence?” and the answer to this question has been sought in historical…
The Documentary Method of [Video] Interpretation
Locating 'Truths' as a Call for Methodological Reflection
Les caméras portatives utilisées par les forces policières
Si l’on se penche sur les études portant sur l’usage de caméras portatives par les forces policières, on constate que le corpus est minime, et qu’il examine surtout d’éventuels effets dissuasifs de ces dispositifs quant au recours à la force par les policiers, et quant au comportement des citoyens lors des interactions avec ces derniers. La présente étude prend appui sur nos précédents travaux, sur des preuves empiriques ainsi que sur quelques an…
Gestalt contexture and contested motives
This article is situated in ongoing discussions about the influx of images of police violence. To date, much scholarship has centred on Foucauldian notions of knowledge-power and sousveillance . Alternatively, I attend to how video evidence produces understanding of police violence in court through a case study of the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager who shot and killed Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. While audio and video…
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