In Search of the Unknown
The Visual Essay as a Method of Exploration, Through an Artistic and Participatory Process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15708786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shirley Van der Maarel (0000-0002-8980-8748, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Issue | 8.2 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthrovision (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2198-6754 • E-ISSN: 2198-6754 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/anthrovision.6606 |
| OpenAlex | W4295777021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Creating our own image, whether it is in research or in art, is a constant conversation with the images already in our heads. In the case of refugees, these images are shaped by mediatised and politicised realities that obscure the capacity to see lived realities. While some attention has been given to how new forms of representation could resist reproducing the existing (visual) discourse in communicating research with refugees, few have considered how to resist reproducing political divisions in conducting research. This article discusses the process of creating a visual essay as part of an ethnographic research project with refugees placed in depopulating villages in central Italy. It demonstrates that as well as a mode of representation, the visual essay can be a method of exploration. In this way, an artistic and participatory process of ‘thinking through making’ has the potential to transform existing ways of seeing and knowing in the process of doing research
Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Conversation · Epistemology · Ethnography · Human–computer interaction · Mode (computer interface · Participatory action research · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Refugee · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |