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Book SynopsisMore extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as to gain a better understanding of life in established urban areas. Presented over two volumes, Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology A and B explore the use and potential of visual materials and methodologies that expand the level of analysis and ways of seeing in urban sociology.
Both volumes comprise examinations of sources, tools, and methods to capture, analyze, and communicate the visual dimension of urban environments, using existing visual sources as well as visual media as tools to both produce data and communicate insights and views on the contemporary urban condition and experience. Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology Part B explores the urban every day in globalizing cities, considering utilizing perception in motion, the visual component of neighbourhoods, smoking in the city, resignifying urban traces of colonialism, visual/sensory ethnography and co-living with death, and isolated buildings as indicators of social change.
Yielding empirical data and insights regarding the visually observable impact of urban planners, designers, advertisers, commercial forces, cultural institutions, local authorities, artists, protesters as social agents in the (re)production of urban cultural processes, both volumes are a novel and wide-ranging contribution that advances the contours and potential of a more ‘visual’ urban sociology.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to ‘Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology Part B: Exploring the Urban Everyday’; Luc Pauwels
Chapter 2. Visually Exploring Globalizing Cities: From Data Visualizations to ‘in-situ’ Approaches; Luc Pauwels
Chapter 3. Perception in Motion: Alternative Research Techniques for Exploring the Urban Landscape; Saskia I. de Wit
Chapter 4. The Visual Commons: Where Residents Become Neighbors; Jon Wagner
Chapter 5. Burned Out: A visual and Lyrical Sociology of Smoking in the City; Stephen Coleman and Jim Brogden
Chapter 6. What We See and What We Don’t: Resignifying Urban Traces of Colonialism; Giovanni Semi and Annalisa Frisina
Chapter 7. For an “Expanded” Visual/Sensory Ethnography: Co-living with Death in New Delhi; Paolo Silvio Harald Favero
Chapter 8. Isolated Buildings as Indicators of Social Change, A Visual Essay; David Schalliol
