Photography and Urban Marginality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163434 |
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| Authors | Giuseppe Scandurra (0000-0002-7990-7056, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 261-274 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.2017.1296311 |
| OpenAlex | W2604818193 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In recent years several monographs have appeared in Italy, though even more abroad, as a report of ethnographic research into the everyday life practices of marginal urban social groups; all fall under a disciplinary subfield the author calls “Anthropology of urban marginality.” The authors of these works have increasingly been using technologies other than written representation, as for instance the medium of photography. There is a question at the core of this article which could be summed as, Why and how can this medium aid in a better understanding of the phenomena being investigated
Aesthetics · Art · Discipline · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Photography · Political science · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Urban anthropology · Urban density · Urban planning · Visual arts · Anthropology · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Italian Social Issues and Migration · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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