[ecrea] call for abstracts for the visual sociology stream at the ISA world congress

RC57 Visual Sociology
Call for papers -

Session 1: "Social Research and Multiple Modalities: Epistemic 
Opportunities, Challenges and Barriers in Addressing Social Complexity"

This session will examine the epistemic, analytic and methodological 
affordances and limitations of engaging with multiple modalities when 
doing social research (such as written, oral, visual, photographic and 
multimedia modalities). Social science researchers work in contexts 
where participants use multiple means to produce and communicate 
meanings and viewpoints. Research participants produce oral and written 
utterances, images, music, artifacts, and performances, which assume a 
variety of forms and distinctive materiality. We are often called on to 
critically examine these multiple modes of communication as contextually 
participating in broader discourses. To do so, we need to take a 
transdisciplinary approach, draw on tools offered in a variety of 
disciplines and be able to move across disciplinary boundaries. This 
kind of endeavour requires collaborative research approaches.

This session invites papers that explore one or more aspects of how we, 
as researchers, produce knowledge when engaging multiple modalities in 
our data collection and record keeping practices. We are particularly 
interested in discussing: i) how we produce fieldnotes or records via 
multitextual/multiple registers; ii) what kinds of obstacles and 
opportunities researchers face when recording, organising and analysing 
different sorts of communicative “data”; iii) what kinds of analytic 
trajectories researchers have followed to interpret their multitextual 
fieldnotes or records; iv) what epistemic and theoretical opportunities 
this kind of data collection has to offer; and v) the relationships 
between multiple modalities created through their integration in research.


Session1 Organizers:

Ana Inés HERAS, CEDESI-UNSAM- CONICET and INCLUIR - Instituto para la 
Inclusión Social, Argentina, (herasmonnersans /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(herasmonnersans /at/ gmail.com)>,

Carolina CAMBRE, Concordia University, Canada, (mcambre /at/ ualberta.ca) 
<mailto:(mcambre /at/ ualberta.ca)>

Analía Inés MEO, CONICET- UBA, Argentina, (analiameo /at/ conicet.gov.ar) 
<mailto:(analiameo /at/ conicet.gov.ar)>

*Session 2: Visual Methods in “the Posts, Post-Posts and Neo-Posts”: 
Representation, Non-Representationalism, and Social Justice Research *

Gillian Rose (2016) argues that although there has been a great deal of 
cross-disciplinary theoretical study of visuals, visuality, visual 
economies, and affective, embodied, and structured dimensions of 
visuals, it remains the case that the field of visual research methods 
has not yet fully engaged with some key methodological, epistemological, 
and ontological debates. This session seeks to engage these debates in 
visual sociology and visual methodologies.
We invite papers that combine a focus on social justice, conceptually 
and/or empirically and on visual research practices through the
kaleidoscopes of what Patti Lather calls “the posts, post-posts and 
neo-posts”; this is a widening terrain that can include, in diverse ways
and varied combinations: relational ontologies, performativity, 
posthumanism, non-representational theory and methods, the vitality
of matter, and entanglements between politics, ethics, epistemologies, 
and ontologies. Some methodological approaches that may fall under this 
expanding tent include, among many others: praxiographic, post 
qualitative, diffractive methodologies, Indigenous and decolonizing 
methodologies, non-representational ethnographies as well as research 
informed by agential realism, ecological thinking, and/or new 
materialisms. We invite papers that focus on field research, theoretical 
exploration, or reflective pieces that engage with the tensions between 
representation and nonrepresentationalism in visual social justice research.

Session2 Organizers:

Andrea Doucet, Brock University, Canada Research Chair, 
(andreadoucet /at/ mac.com) <mailto:(andreadoucet /at/ mac.com)>

Carolina CAMBRE, Concordia University, Canada, (mcambre /at/ ualberta.ca) 
<mailto:(mcambre /at/ ualberta.ca)>


Abstract 300 words in English, French or Spanish. For more information 
on how to submit an abstract 
http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/ 
<http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/>


KEY DEADLINES


        April 25 – 30 September 2017 24:00 GMT

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    Abstracts submission: Participants must submit abstracts on-line via
    Confex platform. Abstracts must be submitted in English, French or
    Spanish. Only abstracts submitted on-line will be considered in the
    selection process.


        November 30, 2017 24:00 GMT

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    Notification letters:  Confex sends notification letters to authors
    and co-authors of accepted or rejected abstracts


ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session10353.html 
<https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Session10353.html>


GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/ 
<http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/>


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