Overview
This rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more the book signals new moves in inter and multidisciplinary research on visual-vertical thinking and related practices within the social sciences, humanities and across the arts. Grounded in socio-visual thinking, Vision and Verticality addresses the emerging shift in the way social scientists move from a sociology of or through images towards a sociology with images. In doing so, this volume illustrates how the sky and atmosphere remain a surprisingly underexplored domain within visual sociology, beyond the framework of drone-related research. Finally, this volume asserts how vertical and atmospherically framed socio-visual analysis is beginning to shape and inform how we see and experience urban spaces, travel, leisure, politics, and environmental challenges through various prisms, including artistic practices, methodological processes, and user-generated content.
Full Product Details
Author: Gary Bratchford ,
Dennis Zuev
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 2023 ed.
Weight: 0.649kg
ISBN: 9783031398834
ISBN 10: 3031398831
Pages: 215
Publication Date: 02 February 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
“Vision & Verticality is a recent entry in the Palgrave McMillan Social Visualities Series which they coedit, and which has received high praise by leaders in the field such as Douglas Harper. … By employing socio-visual thinking, Vision and Verticality attempts to convince social scientists closer to a sociology… . The book contains a wide variety of topics such as urban spaces, travel, leisure, politics, and environmental challenges. … I would add my more pragmatic praise as ‘useful’ and enlightening.” (Jerome Krase, Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol. 14 (3), May, 2024)
Author Information
Gary Bratchford is a Senior Lecturer of Photography and Associate Director of Creative Practice Research Academy at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the president of the International Sociological Association’s Visual Sociology Research Committee (RC57) and Co Editor of Visual Studies Journal. Dennis Zuev is Professor at the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China, and Senior Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal. He is a cofounder (in 2006) and vice-president (research) of ISA Research Committee in Visual Sociology (2010–2018).
