Paolo Favero
Biographic Data
| ID | 642777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Favero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Favero |
| SIGNATURE | FAVERO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9851-3474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
For an “Expanded” Visual/Sensory Ethnography
The present chapter explores the topic of death in the context of contemporary New Delhi, India. Building upon what I chose to call an ‘expanded ethnography’, it explores the multiple ways in which sensory, visual and digital mediations and tools can help researchers address such an existentially delicate topic. Building on a mix of online visual ethnography (of computer screens and smartphones), of bodily/sensory practices, of sound recording an…
The image is a cure
What is an Image ? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022
It Begins and Ends with an Image
A three-act session of storytelling, this visual essay explores the connection between photographs (and images at large) and death. A piece of authobiography, it follows the intimate journey of the author accompanying his father’s departure first and his own grief later. The article positions photographs as objects that are more than mere representations. They are living things that accompany us during our lives. And photography, the author sugge…
Discourses, Bodies, and Questions of Sharedness in Kenya’s Wellness Communities
This article contemplates the construction of sharedness that underlies the success of alternative lifestyle communities in Eastern Africa. In Kenya, a new tourism niche market that focuses on yoga, mindfulness, and alternative medicine is flourishing. Tourists travel to East Africa to practice yoga, but also to introduce local communities to ‘alternative lifestyles’. By considering Western and Kenyan practitioners’ discourses about the benefits …
A Journey from Virtual and Mixed Reality to Byzantine Icons via Buddhist Philosophy
In the context of contemporary digital art and documentary making, practitioners are discovering the possibilities given by emerging image-based immersive practices, techniques and tools (360-degree video and photography; virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) to wrap viewers in the image and to blur the distance between viewer and viewed, ‘self’ and ‘other’. Challenging the distinction between presence and absence and between body and mind, thes…
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
Tainted Frictions
For a Creative Anthropological Image-Making
Learning to look beyond the frame
Changing the way in which we produce, store and share images, new technologies have modified our ways of relating to and addressing the visual field. The importance of these changes resides not so much in the increased speed and size of production and distribution of images around the world, but rather on the practices that are emerging in parallel to this. Alongside with the spread of new technologies, the last decades have witnessed the growth …
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film
In the last decade or so, documentary films seem to have been enjoying a new wave of popularity. Films such as Bowling for Columbine (2002), Super Size me (2004), March of the Penguins (2005) and W
Getting our hands dirty (again)
This article offers an ethnographic exploration of the world of interactive documentaries (i-docs), suggesting how such a scrutiny opens up a new scenario for visual culture - one where the study of the visual field needs to be backed up with an increasing awareness of digital culture, interactivity and the functioning of Web 2.0. Incorporating the languages that dominate communication on social networks and image sharing platforms, i-docs are a …
The spectacle of multicultural art and the invisibility of politics
What a wonderful world
Focusing on three ethnographic events (an Italian charter tour to Pakistan, a shopping event in a village replica in New Delhi and a festival of culture and travel in Italy) this article looks into the contemporary `culture industries of otherness' that is, those commercial events promoting knowledge about the world in its diversity. Criss-crossing visual anthropology, tourism anthropology and scholarly work on the politics of multi-culturalism t…
Phantasms in a "Starry" Place
Phantasms in a "Starry" Place
What a wonderful world
Focusing on three ethnographic events (an Italian charter tour to Pakistan, a shopping event in a village replica in New Delhi and a festival of culture and travel in Italy) this article looks into the contemporary `culture industries of otherness' that is, those commercial events promoting knowledge about the world in its diversity. Criss-crossing visual anthropology, tourism anthropology and scholarly work on the politics of multi-culturalism t…
Getting our hands dirty (again)
This article offers an ethnographic exploration of the world of interactive documentaries (i-docs), suggesting how such a scrutiny opens up a new scenario for visual culture - one where the study of the visual field needs to be backed up with an increasing awareness of digital culture, interactivity and the functioning of Web 2.0. Incorporating the languages that dominate communication on social networks and image sharing platforms, i-docs are a …
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
What is an Image ? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022
Tainted Frictions
Phantasms in a "Starry" Place
What a wonderful world
Focusing on three ethnographic events (an Italian charter tour to Pakistan, a shopping event in a village replica in New Delhi and a festival of culture and travel in Italy) this article looks into the contemporary `culture industries of otherness' that is, those commercial events promoting knowledge about the world in its diversity. Criss-crossing visual anthropology, tourism anthropology and scholarly work on the politics of multi-culturalism t…
The spectacle of multicultural art and the invisibility of politics
Getting our hands dirty (again)
This article offers an ethnographic exploration of the world of interactive documentaries (i-docs), suggesting how such a scrutiny opens up a new scenario for visual culture - one where the study of the visual field needs to be backed up with an increasing awareness of digital culture, interactivity and the functioning of Web 2.0. Incorporating the languages that dominate communication on social networks and image sharing platforms, i-docs are a …
Learning to look beyond the frame
Changing the way in which we produce, store and share images, new technologies have modified our ways of relating to and addressing the visual field. The importance of these changes resides not so much in the increased speed and size of production and distribution of images around the world, but rather on the practices that are emerging in parallel to this. Alongside with the spread of new technologies, the last decades have witnessed the growth …
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film
In the last decade or so, documentary films seem to have been enjoying a new wave of popularity. Films such as Bowling for Columbine (2002), Super Size me (2004), March of the Penguins (2005) and W
For a Creative Anthropological Image-Making
Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography
Today, people nearly everywhere are experiencing multiple events through the medium of mobile apps: Social networking platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, are now accessed through sm
Tainted Frictions
A Journey from Virtual and Mixed Reality to Byzantine Icons via Buddhist Philosophy
In the context of contemporary digital art and documentary making, practitioners are discovering the possibilities given by emerging image-based immersive practices, techniques and tools (360-degree video and photography; virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) to wrap viewers in the image and to blur the distance between viewer and viewed, ‘self’ and ‘other’. Challenging the distinction between presence and absence and between body and mind, thes…
Discourses, Bodies, and Questions of Sharedness in Kenya’s Wellness Communities
This article contemplates the construction of sharedness that underlies the success of alternative lifestyle communities in Eastern Africa. In Kenya, a new tourism niche market that focuses on yoga, mindfulness, and alternative medicine is flourishing. Tourists travel to East Africa to practice yoga, but also to introduce local communities to ‘alternative lifestyles’. By considering Western and Kenyan practitioners’ discourses about the benefits …
It Begins and Ends with an Image
A three-act session of storytelling, this visual essay explores the connection between photographs (and images at large) and death. A piece of authobiography, it follows the intimate journey of the author accompanying his father’s departure first and his own grief later. The article positions photographs as objects that are more than mere representations. They are living things that accompany us during our lives. And photography, the author sugge…
For an “Expanded” Visual/Sensory Ethnography
The present chapter explores the topic of death in the context of contemporary New Delhi, India. Building upon what I chose to call an ‘expanded ethnography’, it explores the multiple ways in which sensory, visual and digital mediations and tools can help researchers address such an existentially delicate topic. Building on a mix of online visual ethnography (of computer screens and smartphones), of bodily/sensory practices, of sound recording an…
The image is a cure
What is an Image ? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022
Sociology (12 works) · Art (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · History (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (6 works) · Art history (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works)