Doing comic geographies

Bibliographic Data

ID2406255
AuthorsPhil Emmerson (0000-0002-8103-2471, University of Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume23
Issue4
Pages721-725
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Geographies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1474474016630967
PMID29708122
OpenAlexW2403278715
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This article reflects on how notions of 'the comic' may be of added value to geographers' research. It is formed around the idea that there are aspects of space and society that are by nature incongruous and unsuitable to be understood through frameworks of scholarship that privilege 'reason' and objectivity above all else. The author thus reflects on how these notions of 'the comic' as a mode of thought can be applied to understanding different fields of research. Ultimately, the article draws out how using this comic mode also forms an 'inward' reflective process which can help to understand the often complicated positions that researchers hold. This article thus calls for an inclusion of the often otherwise ignored comic aspects of the world into scholarship so that we, as geographers, may provide fuller and more human critical analyses of space, culture and society

Aesthetics · Art · Comics · Epistemology · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Privilege (computing · Scholarship · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Law · Philosophy

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