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Visual Ethnography, Theory-Building in the Social Sciences, and Social Intervention.
Doctoral course: Visual Ethnography: Theory-Building in the social sciences and social intervention, SVF – 8017, Department of Social Anthropology, Visual Cultural Studies, 13 - 15. June 2006
Teaching language: English
Lecturers:
Dr Sarah Pink, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK. ( S.Pink@lboro.ac.uk ) and
Professor Lisbet Holtedahl, Department of Social Antrhopology, Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø, ( lisbethh@sv.uit.no )
Registration deadline: 12 May 2006.
NB! Notice that the course has a limited number of places (20) - please apply within 12 May.
Hand in paper:
Deadline is 4th of September 2006. The paper should be approximately 10 pages and written in English. Expected examination will be during the end of September 2006. Papers will be graded as pass/fail.
4 copies of the paper should be send through air mail to: ÅSe Johansen, Breiviklia, 9037 TROMSØ. Or through e-mail to: Åse Johansen, aasej@sv.uit.no
Study points:
5 study points for participating and for hand in final paper consisting of 10 pages.
Where: All the course lectures will be at: Teorifagbygget, house 5, level 3, cinema room number 5310.
Contact:
If you have any question, please contact
- Executive Officer Åse Johansen (E-mail: aasej@sv.uit.no) or
- Research Fellow Marcela Douglas (E-mail: mdouglas@sv.uit.no).
Substantive Focus:
The idea of a ‘visual ethnography’ provokes a series of questions that this course will address:
1. What is the role of visual methods and media in ethnographic research, what sorts of knowledge do they enable us to produce and what is their relationship to other methods.
2. What are the characteristics, potentials and limitations of written texts and ethnographic film for the representation of ethnographic and theoretical knowledge about culture, society and individual experience? How might we go beyond the limitations of ethnographic filmmaking to produce new forms of academic hypermedia text that combine both theoretical writing and visual ethnography?
3. What is the potential for visual ethnographic research and representation for the production of social interventions beyond the academy?
Course Format:
The course will take place over three days. Each morning will be dedicated to a presentation/lecture. Each lecture/presentation will include demonstrations of hypermedia materials or / and video screenings as appropriate. Students will be expected to have read selected materials before attending the sessions and to discuss these, along with the ideas presented in the lecture and the visual and hypermedia materials viewed, during the workshop and discussion sessions that will take place in the second part of the morning.
Student Tasks:
The PhD students participating will be asked to prepare papers and where relevant demonstrations/screenings of their own work. These will be given as a series of presentations in the afternoons. Students will be expected to prepare comments and questions on other students’ presentations and students will also receive feedback from the lecturer on their work. Students will be expected to treat these presentations as feedback opportunities and to use them not only to present their work, but in order to gain the maximum they can from the session to raise any questions or issues related to their work that they would particularly like the group to discuss.
Program:
DAY 1: TUESDAY 13.06.06
9.15-9.45
Opening of the course and ‘Introductions’ session: By Lisbet Holtedal and Sarah Pink. Bbrief statement on the question of ‘The future of visual anthropology’ and brief descriptions of research interests and interests in the course from students.
9.45-10.45
Lecture/presentation by Sarah Pink: Researching and representing gender in the sensory home: dilemmas and decisions in the visual ethnographic research process.
11.00-12.00
Lecture/presentation by Sarah Pink: Situating video in the ethnographic research process.
12.00-13.00 Common lunch
13.00-14.00
Workshop on situating video in the ethnographic research process.
14.15 - 17.30
Presentation by and comments on PhD-students work.
14.15-14.35: Presentation by Tunca Arican
14.35-15.00: Comments from lectures and participants
15.00-15.20: Presentation by Marcela Douglas
15.20-15.45: Comments from lectures and participants
15.45-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20: Presentation by Paal Fagerheim
16.20-16.45: Comments from lectures and participants
16.45-17.05: Presentation by Siren Hope
17.05-17.30: Comments from lectures and participants
>DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 14.06.06
9.15-10.15
Lecture/presentation by Sarah Pink: Video, writing and the potential of hypermedia with demonstrations of hypermedia projects.
10.30-12.00
Workshop and Discussion session on ethnographic hypermedia
12.00-13.00 Common lunch
13.00-14.00
Lecture by Professor Lisbet Holtedal: "Analysing narratives through visual media".
14.15
Presentation by and comments on PhD-students work.
14.15-14.35: Presentation by Ana Luisa Sanchez Laws
14.35-15.00: Comments from lectures and participants
15.00-15.20: Presentation by Trine Kvitberg
15.20-15.45: Comments from lectures and participants
15.45-16.00 Break
16.00-16.20: Presentation by Helen Knutes
16.20-16.45: Comments from lectures and participants
16.45-17.05: Presentation by Bente Sundsvold
17.05-17.30: Comments from lectures and participants
DAY 3: THURSDAY 15.06.06
9.15-12.00
Lecture/presentation by Sarah Pink: Visual ethnography as social intervention: an applied visual anthropology
Workshop and Discussion session on the role of visual anthropology in social intervention and its potential for a public anthropology
12.00-13.00 Common lunch
13.15-17.30
Presentation by and comments on PhD-students work.
13.15-13.35: Presentation by Anne Myrstad
13.35-14.00: Comments from lectures and participants
14.00-14.20: Presentation by Johan Tebelius Leidi
14.20-14.45: Comments from lectures and participants
14.45-15.00 Break
15.00-15.20: Presentation by Marie-Louise Stjerna
15.20-15.45: Comments from lectures and participants
15.45-16.05: Presentation by Heng Wu, Bergen
16.05-16.25: Comments from lectures and participants
16.25-16.45: Presentation by Reni Jasinski Wright
16.45-17.05: Comments from lectures and participants
Readings:
Before the course start you should read chapter 1 in ”The Future of Visual Anthropology” (S. Pink, 2005) as an introduction for the course.
Altern, I. and Holtedahl, L (2000): "Knowledge about us and the other", in Ngaoundéré-Anthropos Revue de Sciences Sociales. Vol V. 30 pages
Arntsen B. and Holtedahl L (2002): "Visualizing Situatedness - The Role of the Audience/Reader in Knowledge Production." Paper presented at Challenging Situatedness - Gender, Culture and Knowledge. Tromsø. Revised version 18 pages
Biella, P. (2004) ‘The Ax Fight on CD-ROM’ in E.D. Lewis (ed) Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film, London: Routledge, pp239-263
Coover, R. (2004a) ‘The representation of cultures in digital media’ in S. Pink, L. Kurti and A. Afonso (eds) Working Images, London: Routledge.
Coover, R. (2004b) ‘Using digital media tools in cross-cultural research, analysis and representation’ Visual Studies 19(1):6-25.
Ginsburg, F. (1997) ‘”From Little Things, Big Things Grow”: Indigenous Media and Cultural Activism’ in R.G. Fox and O, Starn (eds) Between Resistance and Revolution:
Grasseni, C. (2004) ‘Video and ethnographic knowledge: skilled vision and the practice of breeding’ in S.Pink, L. Kürti and A.I. Afonso (eds) Working Images, London: Routledge.
MacDougall, D. (2005) The Corporeal Image, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Chapter 4 and 5).
Pink, S. (2001) Doing Visual Ethnography: images, media and representation in research London: Sage (chapter 4, 6, 7 & 8)
Pink, S. (2004) Home Truths: gender, domestic objects and everyday life, Oxford: Berg (chapter 2)
Pink, S. (2005) The Future of Visual Anthropology: engaging the senses, London: Routledge (chapter 3, 4, 5 & 6).
Pink, S. (2004) (ed) Applied Visual Anthropology, a guest edited issue of Visual Anthropology Review 20(1).
Rich M, Lamola S, Gordon J, Chalfen R. (2000)‘Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment: a patient-centered methodology for understanding the adolescent illness experience’. Journal of Adolescent Health. 27(3):155-165. http://www.viaproject.org/VIAMethod.pdf
Sperschneider W. and Bagger, K. (2003) ‘Ethnographic Fieldwork Under Industrial Constraints: Toward Design-in-Context’ in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Volume 15 Number 1 pp41: 50 http://www.catchword.com/erlbaum/10447318/v15n1/contp1-1.htm
CD-ROMS:
Biella, P., N. Changon and G. Seaman (1997) Yanomamö Interactive: The Ax Fight (book and CD ROM), Wadsworth: Thompson Learning.
Coover, R. (2003) Cultures in Webs CD ROM, Watertown: Eastgate Systems.
Hubbard, G., Cook, A., Tester, S. and Downs, M. (2003) Sexual expression in institutional care settings: an interactive multi-media CD ROM, Stirling: University of Stirling, Department of Applied Social Science, UK.
Kirkpatrick, J. (2003) Transports of Delight: The Ricksha Arts of Bangladesh, Indiana: Indiana University Press. An interactive multi-media CD-ROM.
Ruby, J. (2005) The Taylor Family, CD ROM, Distributor Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Mass, USA.
Ruby, J. (2005) Rebekah and Sophie, CD ROM, Distributor Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Mass, USA.
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