Visual research methods : some reflections
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Visual research methods : some reflections
- 1. Visual research methods some reflections Jo Vearey PhD jovearey@gmail.com #artsmethods
- 4. Today 1. Context – Social justice 2. Approach: development, implementation, dissemination – Involved methods? 3. Ethics – Why does the visual “make visible” existing concerns re. methods and processes? visualising methodological and ethical concerns
- 5. The power of the orange sea By Kagee http://methodsvisualexplore.tumblr.com/post/14699802 7239/read-the-rest-of-issue-10
- 6. Context • identity, representations, power, agency • mobilities • work: productive, reproductive • determinants of health • structural and direct violence • inequalities and inequities • social justice and social change • dual imperative • research translation 0.74 0.67 0.72 0.75 0.74 0.75 0.73 0.72 0.72 0.62 0.64 0.66 0.68 0.7 0.72 0.74 0.76 Bloem fontein C apeTown D urbanEastLondon EastR andJohannesburg Pieterm aritzburgPortElizabeth Pretoria Ginicoefficient Gini coefficient in selected South African cities (Figure adapted from UN-HABITAT, 2008: 72)
- 7. Approach • power, reflexivity • involvement, participation, collaboration, partnerships • process and outputs • dissemination • endpoints and onward prompts • advocacy and awareness • evolving, iterative, grounded
- 8. Ethics • University Research Ethics Committees (RECs) • consent, confidentiality, anonymity, archiving, ownership, dissemination© Monica Mabasa, 2010 © Iketleng, 2010
- 9. Research interests • identity, representations, power, agency • mobilities • work: productive, reproductive • determinants of health • structural and direct violence • inequalities and inequities • social justice and social change • research translation Ethics • University Research Ethics Committees (RECs) • consent, confidentiality, anonymity, archiving, ownership Knowledge production and methodology • power, reflexivity • involvement, participation, collaboration, partnerships • process and outputs • endpoints and onward prompts • advocacy and awarenes • evolving, iterative, grounded
- 12. http://makaylalewis.co.uk/2015/09/18/sketchnotes-4th-international-visual-methods-conference-2015/
- 13. What is it about “the visual” that is allowing us / forcing us to have these discussions? – Are we reinforcing the idea / suggesting that there is something “special” about “the visual”? – What is “special” about “the visual”? Anything? Why are these discussions not taking place in “other” spaces? – What should we do to be changing this? – Within and outside “the academy” The visual makes “it”* visible. * I don’t know what “it” is
- 14. Research methods? [what is appropriate v’s popular] Partnerships; collaboration Participatory? (re)presentation? What constitutes knowledge? – Whose knowledge? – How is knowledge constructed? ethics methods knowledge production power politics of knowledge time funding precarity What is data? [process? output? artefact? engagement?] • Who owns data? • Does data have an impact? Dissemination and sharing • What is research translation? • What should be communicated? • How to communicate? • Advocacy? Who benefits? involvement
- 29. City of Gold by TG Diva from Izwi Lethu Issue 3, May 2015 http://methodsvisualexplore.tumblr.com/post /121021771404/listen-to-izwi-lethu-feature- writer-tg-diva-talk
- 32. sex work in South Africa
- 33. sex work in South Africa qualitative studies exploring lived experience quantitative, cross-sectional survey participant observation in policy processes contribution to policy development partnerships with sex workers and civil society movements at multiple levels engagement with media academic writing co-writing with sex work participants graduate student training interactions and work with IGOs
- 35. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- analyse visual methods and their popularity as a topic in itself. This allows us to address questions of epistemology, power, ethics and emancipation, all common but often unarticulated assumptions, in visual methods