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Making the unfamiliar personal: Arts-based ethnographies as public engaged ethnographies
I present the installation Geographies of the Imagination, an arts-based ethnography about long-term exile, as a form of public ethnography that unveils the acquisition and transmission of ethnographic knowledge as interactive, emergent, and creative.
Visual Methods at the Crossroads
Visual methods are at the crossroads. They can remain in a niche or move into the mainstream by also addressing all people using visual materials. In the social sciences, visual methods encompass photography, video, and graphic representations.
Atlas of Dreams
I created the installation Atlas of Dreams, a series of artistic maps and audio recordings, to portray the emotional traces left by 145 dreamers when they narrated their memorable dreams in the cities of the Bay Area of San Francisco.
News/updates
New IVSA Treasurer
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the IVSA Board of Directors, it’s my pleasure and privilege to announce that Wesley Shrum has been ratified into the position of Treasurer!
IVSA Awards – Call For Nominations
NOMINATIONS DEADLINE MAY 16, 2022
VISUAL SOCIOLOGY Awards (Rieger)
VISUAL METHODOLOGY Award (Prosser)
ANTI-COLONIAL and ANTI-RACISM Awards (ACAR)
The nomination deadline for the 2022 IVSA Awards Programs is May 16, 2022. This is the last day nominations and supplementary materials will be accepted for all IVSA award programs, including:
RIEGER Awards ($1000): for outstanding work in visual sociology by graduate students
PROSSER Award ($1000): for outstanding work in visual methodologies by beginning scholars
ACAR Awards ($1000): for exceptional work in advancing Anti-Colonial and Anti-Racism goals and principles