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Prelims

Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part B

ISBN: 978-1-80455-633-7, eISBN: 978-1-80455-632-0

ISSN: 1047-0042

Publication date: 24 July 2023

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(2023), "Prelims", Pauwels, L. (Ed.) Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part B (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 18B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-00422023000018B009

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Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part B

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Research in Urban Sociology

Series Editor: Ray Hutchison

Volumes:

Volume 1: Race, Class and Urban Change, 1989
Volume 2: Gentrification and Urban Change, 1992
Volume 3: Urban Sociology in Transition, 1993
Volume 4: New Directions of Urban Sociology, 1997
Volume 5: Constructions of Urban Space, 2000
Volume 6: Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment, 2001
Volume 7: Race and Ethnicity in New York City, 2004
Volume 8: Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World, 2006
Volume 9: Gender in an Urban World, 2008
Volume 10: Suburbanization in Global Society, 2010
Volume 11: Everyday Life in the Segmented City, 2011
Volume 12: Urban Areas and Global Climate Change, 2012
Volume 13: Urban Megaprojects: A Worldwide View, 2013
Volume 14: From Sustainable to Resilient Cities: Global Concerns and Urban Efforts, 2014
Volume 15: Public Spaces: Times of Crisis and Change, 2017
Volume 16: Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges, 2019
Volume 17: Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance, 2021
Volume 18A: Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part A: Imagining the Sensory City, 2023

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Research in Urban Sociology Volume 18B

Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part B: Exploring the Urban Everyday

Edited By

Luc Pauwels

University of Antwerp, Belgium

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Figures

Chapter 1
Figure 1. The Third Version of the KOF Globalization Index.
Figure 2. “Global Cities 2017: Leaders in a World of Disruptive Innovation”. Copyright A. T. Kearney, 2017. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Figure 3. 2017 KOF Index of Globalization: Countries' Indices and Variables Weights. Creative commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Figure 4. Carta and González's Visualization of World Cities and Their Interconnectedness, Based Upon the GaWC Data of 2010. Crown copyright.
Figure 5. Circular Visualization (Based on 2010 GaCW Data of Office Networks of Globalized Advanced Producer Services (APS) Firms, Hennemann (2013, pp. 73–74).
Figure 6. This cartoon uses the machine metaphor to challenge the devastating effects of free trade and globalization on the environment, natural resources, and workforce.
Figure 7. An Activist Expression Cunningly Utilizing the Iconography and Tag Line of a Leading American Soft Drink Brand to Warn us About an Imminent Global Threat.
Figure 8. Researcher-Produced Image. A travel agency in Dubai: The Images (depicting visual icons of London and Paris) and the List of Destinations May Serve as Signifiers of a Particular Form of “Interconnectedness” of this Place with the Rest of the World.
Figure 9. Researcher-Produced Image: Local and Global Icons Meet in the Center of Moscow in 2019.
Figures 10–15 Vyse Avenue at 178 Street, South Bronx, New York, 1980–1998. Camilo José Vergara's ongoing “Tracking Time” project is a unique collection of photographs, many of which exemplify the power of “repeat photography.”
Figures 16 and 17 Examples of “Respondent-Generated Image Production.” Photographs by Sarah Tanghe.
Figure 18. Frame From Mardi Gras: Made in China (Redmon, 2005).
Figures 19 and 20 Two Images Taken From “Worlds of (In)difference: A Visual Essay on Globalization and Sustainability”.
Figure 21. A Visual Exploration of the Mostly Invisible Energy Shipping Routes Around the World Based on GPS Pings From Oil and Other Energy Carrying Vessels. Geopolitics, price of oil, and conditions at specific ports change. “Port to Port” by Juan Saldarriaga, Laura Kurgan, Dare Brawley, and Jen Lowe (https://c4sr.columbia.edu).
Figure 22. “Your Safety is My Safety.” In situ information board about a global threat. Photo by: Luc Pauwels.
Chapter 2
Figure 1. The Spiral Jetty, by Robert Smithson (1970). The artwork can only be experienced by walking to and over it. Negotiating the irregular rocks, one experiences the effects of time and nature.
Figure 2. Serial Vision (Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape, The Architectural Press, 1961, p. 17).
Figure 3. Motation Score of Nicollet Mall Between Sixth and Seventh Street (Lawrence Halprin, 1967).
Figure 4. The Suburban Landscape of Bad Oeynhausen.
Figure 5. The Wasserkrater Garden, With the Central Steel Crater Viewed From the Sunken Space of the Surrounding Garden.
Figure 6. Visual Score of the Walk From the Jordansprudel to the Wasserkrater.
Figure 7. Visual Score and Haptic Score of the Tofuku-ji Temple Ensemble in Kyoto.
Figure 8. Locomotion Scores.
Figure 9. Surface Underfoot Score.
Figure 10. Auditory Score.
Chapter 3
Figure 1. Thousand Oaks.
Figure 2. Solano Avenue.
Figure 3. The “Solano Stroll.”
Figure 4. Scripted Photo-Documents.
Figure 5. A Neighbor's Warning.
Figure 6. Defining Vertical Space.
Figure 7. Resident Signs.
Figure 8. “Building Blocks of Community”.
Figure 9. Community Area Maps.
Figure 10. Parcel Map Section: Alameda County.
Figure 11. Parcel Map Section: Aerial View.
Figure 12. Parcel Map Section: Street View.
Figure 13. Unruly Trees.
Figure 14. Imageable and Legible Trees.
Figure 15. How Trees Shape Views.
Figure 16. Visual Dominance.
Figure 17. Thousand Oaks Synanthropes.
Figure 18. Dogs and Cats.
Figure 19. Meaningful Trees.
Figure 20. A Remembered but Impossible View.
Figure 21. Accurate but Unrepresentative Photos.
Figure 22. Falling Leaves as an Ecological Event.
Figure 23. Visual and Ecological Design.
Figure 24. A Multi-species Ecological Community.
Figure 25. Setting for Trash Day Performance.
Figure 26. Resident Donations and Storage.
Figure 27. Resident Decorations and Embellishments.
Figure 28. The Visual Commons as Negative Space and Workspace.
Figure 29. Neighborhoods, Communities, and Members: Three Overlapping Conceptions.
Figure 30. The Thousand Oaks Neighborhood.
Chapter 4
Figure 1. Smokers' Research Zone Central Leeds, Google Maps, 2022.
Figure 2. Smoker Wearing a Lanyard, 2018.
Figure 3. Smoker Outside Office Reception, 2017.
Figure 4. Two Smokers Facing City Square, 2019.
Figure 5. Two Smokers off Albion Street, Leeds, 2014.
Figure 6. Feel Good, 2014.
Figure 7. Smoker Standing Outside Mill Hill Chapel, 2018.
Figure 8. Two Smokers in Conversation on Russell Street, 2016.
Figure 9. Smoker in Telephone Box, 2020.
Chapter 5
Figure 1. Decolonising the City. Visual Dialogues in Padova Link to the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6CtMsORajE.
Figure 2. Padova, a City Founded by a Refugee According to Emmanuel M'bayo Mertens.
Figures 3 and 4 Viviana Zorzato's Gift: Her ‘Black Women Portrait’, via Amba Aradam.
Chapter 6
Figure 1. Appeal for Identification Appearing in an Indian Daily.
Figure 2. Hiroshima's Life.
Figure 3. Delhi Heat Map.
Figure 4. Delhi Landing.
Figure 5. My Air Filter.
Figure 6. Delhi is a Death Chamber.
Figure 7. Still Frame of Slimy Sid and Paolo Walking.
Figure 8. Still Frame of Slimy Sid and Paolo Smiling.
Figure 9. Still Frame of the Street Facing Mokshdhamas.
Figure 10. Still Frame of Mokshdhamas.
Figure 11. Portrait at TGF.
Figure 12. Portrait at TGF.
Figure 13. Portrait at TGF.
Figure 14. Portrait at TGF.
Figure 15. Portrait at TGF.
Figure 16. Portrait at TGF.
Figure 17. Portrait at TGF.
Figure 18. Portrait of Uma Aunty.
Figure 19. Selfie With Slimy Sid.
Figure 20. Me With Slimy Sid.
Chapter 7
Figure 1. Isolated Building Study 288 (2008).
Figure 2. Isolated Building Study 205 (2007).
Figure 3. Isolated Building Study 400 (2009).
Figure 4. Isolated Building Study 230 (2007).
Figure 5. Isolated Building Study 139 (2007).
Figure 6. Isolated Building Study 412 (2007).
Figure 7. Isolated Building Study 640 (2014).
Figure 8. Isolated Building Study 593 (2012).
Figure 9. Isolated Building Study 570 (2012).
Figure 10. Isolated Building Study 590 (2012).
Figure 11. Isolated Building Study 519 (2007).
Figure 12. Isolated Building Study 657 (2016).
Figure 13. Isolated Building Study 127 (2007).
Figure 14. Isolated Building Study 701 (2019).
Figure 15. Isolated Building Studies, Various Dates (2006–2023).
Figure 16. Isolated Building Studies, Various Dates (2006–2023).

About the Contributors

Jim Brogden is the Director of Practice Research in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Photography and the Non-Place: The Cultural Erasure of the City (Palgrave, 2019), and co-author with Stephen Coleman of Capturing the Mood of Democracy: The British General Election 2019 (Palgrave, 2020). He is a member of the International Visual Sociology Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, United Kingdom, and visiting professor at the American Academy of Art College, Chicago. Contact: School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.

Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He has written several books, including How Voters Feel (2013) and How People Talk About Politics (2020). He is interested in exploring the concept of socio-political mood.

Saskia I. de Wit is Assistant Professor at the Section of Landscape Architecture, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She combines teaching and research with practice at her own firm Saskia de Wit tuin en landschap. Her research focuses on the garden as a core concept of the field of landscape architecture, as expressed in her publication Hidden Landscapes. The Metropolitan Garden as a Multisensory Expression of Place (2018) which ties the concept of the enclosed garden as an articulation of landscape to contemporary metropolitan developments. The concept of the garden is used as a lens for further research into the urban landscape, leftover spaces and the (multi-sensory) perception of place. Currently she is involved in researching urban forestry from the spatial-experiential perspective.

Paolo Silvio Harald Favero is an anthropologist and artist with an interest for the meaning of images in human life. He works across visual and digital cultures, anthropology and art. His most recent project focusses on dying, living and loving in New Delhi. Paolo is also specialised in emerging technologies, visual and sensory ethnography, arts-based methods and existential anthropology. He is the author of four single-authored books: Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics (Routledge, 2020), The Present Image: Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Dentro e Oltre l’Immagine: saggi sulla cultura visiva e politica nell'Italia contemporanea (Meltemi 2017), and India Dreams: Cultural Identity Among Young Middle Class Men in New Delhi (Stockholm University Press 2005). He is Professor of Visual and Digital Culture at the University of Antwerp where he is a member of the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi).

Annalisa Frisina is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department FISPPA (Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology) of the University of Padova, where she teaches qualitative and visual methods for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students. Her main research interests are in sociology of racism and migrations, from a post and decolonial perspective. Her participatory video “Decolonising the City. Visual Dialogues in Padova” received two Visual Research Awards in 2021, by the International Visual Sociology Association (AntiColonial and AntiRacist Award for Visual Activism) and by the Festival DocuCity/MetiCittà, University of Milan, in cooperation with the Museum of Cultures. Among her publications are a book on Visual Research and Socio-cultural Transformations (UTET 2013), an edited book on Visual Methods (Il Mulino 2016) and her latest book on Contemporary Racisms. Sociological Perspectives (Carocci 2020). Among her recent research essays (with S. A. Kyeremeh) are Music and Words Against Racism. A Qualitative Study With Racialized Artists in Italy, in Ethnic and Racial Studies (2022) and Art and Counter-Racialization Processes. A Qualitative Research Journey With Italy's Illegitimate Children, in Studi Culturali (2021).

Luc Pauwels is Professor Emeritus of Visual Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Antwerp (Faculty of Social Sciences), Founding and former Director of the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) and currently President of the ‘Visual Sociology’ Research Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA). He is also a former Vice-President of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA), of the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) as well as a Past Chair of the Visual Communication Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). Books include: Visual Cultures of Science: Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communication (2006, Dartmouth College Press, UPNE), Reframing Visual Social Science. Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology (2015, Cambridge University Press) and The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2011, 1st ed. with E. Margolis; 2020, 2nd ed. with D. Mannay).

David Schalliol is an Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Olaf College who is interested in the relationship between community, social structure, and place. He exhibits widely, including in the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Centre Régional de la Photographie Hauts-de-France, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work has been supported by institutions including the Graham Foundation and the European Union and featured in publications including MAS Context, The New York Times, and Social Science Research. David is the author of Isolated Building Studies (UTAKATADO) and co-author, with Michael Carriere, of The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America (The University of Chicago Press). He additionally contributes to such films as Almost There (Kartemquin Films) and Highrise: Out My Window (National Film Board of Canada), which won an International Digital Emmy for Non-Fiction. His directorial debut, The Area, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and has aired on America Reframed and PBS.org. David earned his BA from Kenyon College and his MA and PhD from The University of Chicago.

Giovanni Semi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning of the University of Turin where he coordinates the PhD program in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the universities of Milan and Turin. He splits his research interests in two main but interrelated domains: urban studies and multicultural analysis. He has extensively worked on gentrification dynamics, housing studies and urban marketplaces, with a special interest in the qualitative analysis of class and racial segregations. Semi has extensively published in journals such as Identities, Environment and Planning A, Ethnologie Française, and in collective works in English, French and Italian. He has a kid and a dog and holds a double PhD from EHESS-Paris and Università di Torino.

Jon Wagner is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. His current interests include visual communication (from illuminated manuscripts to YouTube videos), the phenomenology of Alzheimer's care, the ‘visual commons’ and community narratives. His previous work focused on children's material culture, qualitative and visual research methods, school change and the social and philosophical foundations of education. He authored Misfits and Missionaries: A School for Black Dropouts (1977) and edited Images of Information: Still Photography in the Social Sciences (1979) and ‘Seeing Kids’ Worlds' an issue of Visual Sociology (1999). He is a past president of the International Visual Sociology Association and was founding image editor of the journal Contexts (2001–2004).

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