[ecrea] CALL: Imagining Futures Through the Visual: Vienna (Austria)

CFP

Imagining Futures Through the Visual: Third ISA Forum of Sociology, 
Vienna (Austria) July 10-14, 2016.
The Session invites papers on research and case studies that consider 
how futures are being presented, mediated, performed, designed, narrated 
or imaged through a rage of visual practices.

Emphasising the importance of visibility and communication, the session 
will consider:
How sociology and visual studies combined can be used to conceptualize 
current relations between vision and visuality.
The representation of varying social spheres, communities, environments, 
social movements, state and non-state actors on and offline.
As such, this session welcomes research that investigates what Schulz 
(2015) refers to as “future moves” within the discipline, as well as 
future visions in addition to research dealing with the assembly of 
visual material that point to an understanding or re-reading of our 
potential futures. Examples may include:
The analysis of ecological or activist photographs that delineate a 
future disaster as a possible outcome of the present (Harimen, 2014).
The accumulation and analysis of contemporary activist material found on 
multiple platforms, that when brought together, create a “visual 
coherence” evoking a trail, and thus an idea of an injustice, which is 
yet to be recognized (Azoulay, 2011).
Papers are also welcomed on a range of topics that address motives and 
practices for future change or future action, supported by visual 
content. These can include (but are not limited to):
The networked circulation of individual and group self-portraits with 
banners and signs that promote call for changes in policy, political 
visibility and/or social equality.
What methodological tools are best applied when examining futures 
through a socio-visual lens.
Session in English & organised by Gary Bratchford - Manchester 
Metropolitan University, UK

Call closes 30 September, 2015 24:00 GMT.

For further details see 
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogrampreliminary/programs.html


Participants must submit abstracts on-line via Confex platform at 
http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/ . Abstracts must be submitted 
in English, French or Spanish. Only abstracts submitted on-line will be 
considered in the selection process.

For more information about the visual sociology Working Group of the 
International Sociological Association (WG03) please see 
http://www.isa-sociology.org/wg03.htm

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