1st Edition

Sociology of the Visual Sphere

Edited By Regev Nathansohn, Dennis Zuev Copyright 2013
204 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions serve as the logic for dividing the book into two sections, the first ("Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual") focuses on the meanings of the visual sphere, and the second ("New Methodologies for... Read more

1. Sociology of the Visual Sphere: Introduction  Regev Nathansohn and Dennis Zuev  Part I: Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing the Visual  2. The Limits of the Visual in the "War Without Witness"  Pavithra Tantrigoda  3. From a Slight Smile to Scathing Sarcasm: Shades of Humor in Israeli Photojournalism  Ayelet Kohn  4. Sociology of Iconoclasm: Distrust of Visuality in the Digital Age  Łukasz Rogowski  5. Picturing ‘Gender’: Iconic Figuration, Popularization, and the Contestation of a Key Discourse in the New Europe  Anna Schober  Part II: New Methodologies for Sociological Investigations of the Visual  6. Production of Solidarities in YouTube: A Visual Study of Uyghur Nationalism  Matteo Vergani and Dennis Zuev  7. On the Visual Semiotics of Collective Identity in Urban Vernacular Spaces  Timothy Shortell and Jerome Krase  8. Representing Perception: Integrating Photo-Elicitation and Mental Maps in the Study of Urban Landscape  Valentina Anzoise and Cristiano Mutti  9. Operations of Recognition: Seeing Urbanising Landscapes with the Feet  Christian von Wissel

Biography

Dennis Zuev is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal.

Regev Nathansohn is the president (2010-2014) of the Visual Sociology Thematic Group working under the International Sociological Association, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor.