[Commlist] CFP: Visualising Uneven Distributions of Power

This is the last call for papers for the following session next year at 
the ISA Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2020)

RC57 Visual Sociology (host committee) Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral

Session link: 
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session13631.html
Conference page: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/cfp.cgi

Overview:
In a world dominated by visual images the photograph has become almost 
invisible (Clarke, 1997: 11). In the two decades since this statement 
the proliferation of visual imagery [still or moving] has arguably 
reinforced this sentiment.
This session seeks to unpack this observation, by asking, how have 
artists used lens-based practice to push back against this threat of 
invisibility, mass saturation, compassion fatigue (Moeller 1999) or 
‘un-greivability’ (Butler 2009) in times of global crisis or threats to 
democracy. Specifically, this session seeks papers that pay particular 
attention to the strategic deployment of lens-based practices by artists 
who reframe both emerging or existing crisis in new and engaging ways 
and equally, how can these approaches be problematised or critiqued.

Asking how we can sociologically analyse visual approaches to crisis, we 
welcome papers that consider a range of geographies and political 
contexts. Papers can address issues of representation (Tagg 1988), 
ethics and 'audiencing' (Fiske 1994), (co)-authorship, dissemination and 
mediation as well as how can we look, sociologically at crisis through 
the prism of contemporary artists for pedagogical and political gains.

Session Organizers:
Gary BRATCHFORD, The University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Ruthie GINSBURG, Beit Berl College, Israel

From Dr. Gary Bratchford <(gbratchford /at/ UCLAN.AC.UK)>
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