1st Edition
Aerial Visibilities New Thoughts and Further Possibilities
Preface - Moving Up: Plotting the Vertical Turn in Sociology
Gary Bratchford and Dennis Zuev
1. Aerial visibilities: towards a visual sociology of the sky
Gary Bratchford and Dennis Zuev
2. Thinking with the drone – visual lessons in aerial and volumetric thinking
Ole B. Jensen
3. Vertical vision and atmocultural navigation. Notes on emerging urban scopic regimes
Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Andrea Pavoni
4. The citizen drone: protest, sousveillance and droneviewing
Dennis Zuev and Gary Bratchford
5. Who owns the sky? Aerial resistance and the state/corporate no-fly zone
Hagit Keysar
6. Of cable-cars and helicopters: mobility regimes and the politics of visibility in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Bianca Freire-Medeiros, Lia de Mattos Rocha, Juliana Farias and Leo Name
7. Rethinking verticality through top-down views in drone hobbyist photography
Lauren Alex O’Hagan and Elisa Serafinelli
8. The spectacle of demonstration: visual representation of political imagination during the coronavirus crisis
Ruthie Ginsburg
9. States of Australia’s agri-environment: visual extractions from degraded landscapes
Joshua Zeunert
Biography
Dennis Zuev is Senior Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, and a coordinator of the Research Lab for Cultural Sustainability at the University of St. Joseph, Macau, China. He is also a member of Urban Transitions Hub, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He co-founded (in 2006) ISA Research Committee in Visual Sociology. In 2018, he published Urban Mobility in Modern China: The Growth of the E-bike (2018) and co-authored the book Visual Sociology: Politics and Practices in Contested Space with Gary Bratchford (2021).
Gary Bratchford is Associate Professor of Photography at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the co-editor of Visual Studies Journal and Visual Culture in Britain. He was President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee for Visual Sociology (RC57) from 2018 to 2023.
