Picturing Validity

Autoethnography and the Representation of Self

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2385277
AutoresCate Watson (0000-0003-1807-6460, University of Aberdeen)
Ano2009
Volume15
Fascículo3
Páginas526-544
Data de publicação2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800408318426
OpenAlexW2092188573
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas19

In considering issues of "representation" and "realism," the visual is inevitably invoked, yet in the current Western episteme, the relationship between the visible and the readable constitutes an enduring problem in which the image is generally subordinate to the text. In this article, the author examines what would happen if the usual relationship between verbal and visual was overturned and images were used to analyze text. In doing this, the author draws on the concept of "reverse ekphrasis" in the creation of a "gallery of validity," which constitutes an interpretive framework for her autoethnographic research. The author situates this work within an approach characterized as the baroque, arguing that this provides a useful metaphor for qualitative research in the current moment

Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Episteme · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Metaphor · Politics · Qualitative research · Realism · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Art Education and Development · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory