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Visual Sociology

Practices and Politics in Contested Spaces

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Authors:
  1. Dennis Zuev

    1. City University of Macau, Macau, China

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  2. Gary Bratchford

    1. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

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  • Foundational text of the Social Visualities book series https://link.springer.com/series/16832
  • A short case-study based guide to visual sociology for all interested in application of visual approaches and sociological thinking
  • Covering themes understudied by visual sociologists, such as drone visualities and visual social media uses

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Visual Sociology and the Relational Image

    • Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
    Pages 1-21

  3. Methodologies of Visual Sociology

    • Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
    Pages 23-51

  4. Untangling the City Visually

    • Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
    Pages 53-82

  5. Social Media and the Visual

    • Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
    Pages 83-117

  6. Seeing Like a Drone

    • Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
    Pages 119-140

  7. CODA: Towards a Visual Sociology 3.0

    • Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
    Pages 141-151

  8. Correction to: Visual Sociology

    • Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
    Pages C1-C1

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 153-159
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About this book

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three domains of the ‘relational image’: the urban, social media, and the aerial.

Zuev and Bratchford tackle issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of visuality. 

This concise overview will be of use to students and researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.    



Reviews

“This book offers a refreshing visual sociological take on a number of game-changing developments in society, relating to the pivotal and contested role of images and visual technologies. Its core part consists of case studies that traverse different but interconnected spaces of human activity. Drawing on concrete examples and events, this work helps to lower the threshold for those not yet acquainted with a more visual approach to studying culture and society.”— Luc Pauwels, Professor of Visual Research Methods, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Authors and Affiliations

  • City University of Macau, Macau, China

    Dennis Zuev

  • University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

    Gary Bratchford

About the authors

​Dennis Zuev is Assistant Professor at City University of Macau, China, and Research Fellow at CIES-ISCTE, IUL, Portugal.
Gary Bratchford is Senior Lecturer of Photography at the University of Central Lancashire, UK and Programme Leader for the MA in Photography.     



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Visual Sociology

  • Book Subtitle: Practices and Politics in Contested Spaces

  • Authors: Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54510-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54509-3Published: 05 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54512-3Published: 06 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54510-9Published: 04 January 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 159

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Media Sociology, Photography, Sociology, general, Audio-Visual Culture, Urban Studies/Sociology

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