The Visual Studies Companion

Susan Hansen (AU/UK) is President of the IVSA and Co-Chair of the Visual Methods Group at Middlesex University, London; former Editor of Visual Studies; and founding Editor of Nuart Journal. Their work applies ethnomethodological and conversation analytic methods to visual studies. Kate Korroch (US) is Editor of Visual Studies, Editorial Assistant for Art Journal, and founding Editor of Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal. Their work examines queer and trans visual culture and art history. Julie Patarin-Jossec (FR/US) is Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology at DePaul University, Chicago, and Editor of Visual Studies, Echographies: Journal of Sound Ethnography, and Immaterial Books. Their work explores queer sea ecologies through video ethnography.

Introduction to The Visual Studies Companion Part I: What Was Accomplished? Introduction to Part I: What Was Accomplished? 1. No Tire, No Movement: Visual Ethnographies of Pneuma-City, Lagos, Nigeria Origins 2. 'I Hate Visual Culture': The Controversial Rise of Visual Studies and the Disciplinary Politics of the Visible 3. A Critical Assessment of the Russian-Language Literature in the Field of Visual Culture 4. Visual Sociology, Documentary Photography, and Photojournalism: It's (Almost) All a Matter of Context Classic Methods 5. What Constitutes an Image-Based Qualitative Methodology? 6. Talking About Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation 7. Visual Methodologies Revisited: Some Current Developments and Outstanding Concerns Experimentations 8. The Visual Essay and Sociology 9. Picture/Talk: Does She Still Recognise You? 10. Visual Challenges to the Social Sciences 11. Understanding Innovation in Visual Methodologies and Methods Conversation with Greg Scott 12. Conversation with Greg Scott: Fostering Video Ethnographic Scholarship Part II: What Was Neglected? Introduction to Part II: What Was Neglected? 13. Unframing Wholesomeness: Jessie Willcox Smith, Gender, Domesticity, and the Archive Expansions 14. Multisensory Approaches in Migration Research: Reflections and Pathways 15. With Sonic Epistemology, Within Sonic Territory: An Essay in Fragments and Audio Descriptions 16. Speculative Fiction Documentary 17. Communication, Comics, and Diagrams Expansions 18. Whose Photo? Whose Voice? Who Listens? 'Giving,' Silencing and Listening to Voice in Participatory Visual Projects 19. 'A Camera Is a Big Responsibility': A Lens for Analysing Children's Visual Voices 20. "We Know How to Navigate This Place, and You Won't": Centering Young People as Knowledge Producers and Rights Bearers in Visual Research 21. Ethical Challenges in Visual Research Doing Reciprocity 22. Visual Essay: If Males Were Photographed Like Females 23. Doing Drag: A Visual Case Study of Gender Performance and Gay Masculinities 24. Establishing the Frame: Doing Queer Reciprocity and Reflecting on Earlier Works from Visual Studies 25. Queer Interventions, Now and Then 26. Locating Queerness in Katrien Mulder's and Emmy Scheele's "If Males Were Photographed Like Females" 27. From Underground to Primetime: The Dialectics of Drag in a Corporate Age 28. The Sensorial Spectacle of Gender Performance as a Stage for Experiential Studies Conversation with Ace Lehner 29. Conversation with Ace Lehner: Trans Visual Culture's Methodological Intervention Part III: What Could Be Done? Introduction to Part III: What Could Be Done? 30. On a Roller Coaster Ride: A Visual Essay on Exploring the Ups and Downs of Being Black Motherscholars Disciplinary Provocations 31. Virtual Reality as a Research Method: Is This the Future of Photo-Elicitation? 32. Vandalism and the Urban Visual: A Value Measure for Images in Cities 33. Roundtable on the State of Visual Studies: Collaborative Methods and Reciprocal Reflections Digital Relationalities 34. Same, Same, but Different: Making Sense of Changes in Social Media Visuality 35. Researching Social Media Pop Cultures: Case Studies and Reflections from Five Visual Platforms 36. Playing the Clancy Man: Video Games, Political Affect, and Tom Clancy's Brand 37. Operational Images of the Environment: Perspectives from the Artistic to the Curatorial Transgressing Power 38. The Call of the Bright Blanket: Anticolonial Aesthetics in the Synesthetic Regime of Art 39. Roma Culture and Visibility: Between External Gaze and Internal Agency in Roma Visual Representations 40. Romanticizing the Wounds of Others: Stereotype and the Future of Visual Studies Conversation with Ji Yoon Yang 41. Conversation with Ji Yoon Yang: Curation as Collective Care Conclusion: Curating Visual Studies