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Visual Methodology in Migration Studies : New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nikielska-Sekula, Karolina.
Other Authors: Desille, Amandine.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Visual Methodology in Migration Studies
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 On the Value of Images in Academic Research
  • 1.1.1 Realism of Still and Moving Images: From Art to Research
  • 1.1.2 Context, Manipulation, and Positionality - Towards the "Objectivity" of Visual Research
  • 1.2 Conveying Sensorial Experiences in the Field of International Migrations
  • 1.2.1 International Migrations as a Visual Culture
  • 1.2.2 Beyond the Visual
  • 1.2.3 Reaching Out
  • 1.3 Places and Bodies, Storytelling, Participation, and Representation
  • 1.3.1 Places and Bodies
  • 1.3.2 Storytelling
  • 1.3.3 Participation
  • 1.3.4 Representations
  • 1.4 Before We Move onto the Next Parts
  • References
  • Part I: Places and Bodies
  • Chapter 2: "Have You Just Taken a Picture of Me?": Theoretical and Ethical Implications of the Use of Researcher-Produced Photography in Studying Migrant Minorities
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Methodology and Research Context
  • 2.3 Theoretical Implications of the Use of Photography in the Research Process
  • 2.3.1 Realist-Conventionalist Dilemma
  • 2.3.2 Place-Based Photographs
  • 2.3.3 Research Context as a Finding
  • 2.3.4 Positionality
  • 2.4 Ethical Challenges
  • 2.4.1 What to Display and What to Hide
  • 2.4.2 Changing Ethical Standards in Different Localities
  • 2.4.3 Anonymity Protection vs. Agency
  • 2.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Migrants' Mental Maps: Unpacking Inhabitants' Practical Knowledges in Lisbon
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Working with Mental Maps in Urban Contexts
  • 3.3 Unpacking Migrants' Practical Knowledges: Mental Maps and Urban Integration
  • 3.4 Mental Maps as Holograms
  • References
  • Chapter 4: On the Use of Visual Methods to Understand Local Immigration Politics
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Filming in Israel.
  • 4.3 Reducing the Distance?
  • 4.4 …or Maintaining the Distance and Refusing to "Go Native"?
  • 4.5 Editing and Montage: Knowledge Capital and Storytelling
  • 4.6 Screening and Feedback: Shortcomings of Victory Day
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Conclusions: Touching and Being Touched - Experience and Ethical Relations
  • 5.1 Production
  • 5.2 Analysis
  • 5.3 (Re)presentation
  • 5.4 Ethics in Motion
  • References
  • Part II: Storytelling
  • Chapter 6: Ethnocinematographic Theory. How to Develop Migration Theory Through Ethnographic Filmmaking
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Where Is the Theory in Ethnographic Film?
  • 6.3 A Middle-Range Theory: Middling Migration
  • 6.4 How We Developed Ideas Collaboratively
  • 6.5 How We Developed an Argument Through Montage
  • 6.6 Teaching Ethnocinematographic Theory
  • 6.6.1 Step 1 - Treat Film and Text as Equal
  • 6.6.2 Step 2 - Recognize the Analytical Potential of the Editing Room
  • 6.6.3 Step 3 - Stimulate Collective Genius
  • 6.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Migrant Cine-Eye: Storytelling in Documentary and Participatory Filmmaking
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 The Migrant Image as Constructed in Recent European Documentaries
  • 7.3 Politics of (In)Visibility in Hungarian Documentary
  • 7.4 Participatory Storytelling: Strategies of Engaging "Others" Through Film
  • 7.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Filmography
  • Chapter 8: Story-Making and Photography: The Visual Essay and Migration
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 The Visual Essay
  • 8.3 Spatial Semiotics As a Method for Studying Urban Places
  • 8.4 Observing Ethnic Brooklyn Change: The Case of Sunset Park
  • 8.5 Observing East London
  • 8.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Conclusions: Migrants Through Images
  • 9.1 Produce Knowledge Through Filmmaking
  • 9.2 From Text to Image and Back: Where Are We in the Work on Image?.
  • 9.3 Cooperation at the Heart of the Documentary Creative Process
  • 9.4 From Photo-Voice to Cine-Voice?
  • References
  • Part III: Participation
  • Chapter 10: Combining Participatory and Audiovisual Methods with Young Roma "Affected by Mobility"
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Audio-Visual Research as a "Making Together"
  • 10.2.1 Reasons and Problems of Conducting Participatory Research
  • 10.2.2 Representation, Authorship and Self-Analysis
  • 10.3 Experimental Collaborations
  • 10.3.1 From Commissioning Tasks to Research Training
  • 10.3.2 Towards More Autonomous Forms of Participatory Data Collection
  • 10.3.3 Professionalisation: Structuring and Rewarding Collaboration
  • 10.4 Conclusive Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Photovoice as a Research Tool of the "Game" Along the "Balkan Route"
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 "Who Is Behind Camera?": Reflecting Photography Along Borders
  • 11.3 Photovoice Methodology
  • 11.4 "I Took a Photo of the "Game" Because I Wanted to Show You My Life Here"
  • 11.5 Conclusions: Re-Thinking Photography and Participation in Violence and Migration Research
  • References
  • Chapter 12: Crafting an Event, an Event on Craft. Working Together to Represent Migration Experiences
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Genesis, Craft of the Event and Dissemination
  • 12.2.1 Genesis and Craft of the Event
  • 12.2.2 Concrete Construction of the Event
  • 12.2.3 Dissemination of the Call and Reception
  • 12.3 Crossing Practices to Reinvent Migrations' Representations
  • 12.3.1 A Hybrid Programme
  • 12.3.2 Migrations' Representations: Co-creation, Stakes and Intentions
  • 12.3.2.1 Nos Super Héros (2018)
  • 12.3.2.2 Blue Sky from Pain (2016)
  • 12.3.3 When Co-creations Become "Living Archives"
  • 12.4 Disciplines and Practices' Interculturality: How to Work With?
  • 12.4.1 Becoming a Reflexive Community.
  • 12.4.2 Collaboration Under Constraint
  • 12.5 To Conclude. A Deficient Cooperation: Absence of Persons Who Have Experienced Migration
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Conclusions: Participating as Power? The Possibilities and Politics of Participation
  • 13.1 The Intersecting Economies of Migrants' Representation
  • 13.2 Visuality and Domination
  • 13.3 Visual Participation and Counter-Hegemony
  • 13.4 Participation and the Re-placement of Violence
  • 13.5 Collaborative Knowledge Distribution
  • 13.6 Participation as Equality?
  • 13.7 Conclusion: Theorising Participation
  • References
  • Part IV: Representation
  • Chapter 14: Chant Down the Walls: Exploring the Potential of Video Methods in the Study of Immigrant Politics and Social Movements
  • 14.1 Introduction
  • 14.2 Video as a Tool to Study Migrants and Politics
  • 14.3 The Case Study: NDLON, the Jornaleros del Norte and Immigrant Activism in Los Angeles
  • 14.4 The Process of Filming: Access, Role in the Field and Reactions
  • 14.5 Using Video to Record Micro-interactions in the Field
  • 14.6 Sequence Analysis
  • 14.7 Reactivity and the Use of Video to Generate Different Insights and Data
  • 14.8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 15: In the Eye of the Beholder? Minority Representation and the Politics of Culture
  • 15.1 Introduction: On Representation(s)
  • 15.2 Context and Case Studies
  • 15.2.1 The Expatriate Archive Centre
  • 15.2.2 The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
  • 15.2.3 Bunkers
  • 15.3 Representation "of": Which Stories, and How to Tell Them
  • 15.4 Representation "by": Whose Voices Shape the Narrative
  • 15.5 Representation "for": Culture and Knowledge for Whom?
  • 15.6 The Political Responsibility of Arts and Culture
  • References
  • Chapter 16: The Researcher's Nightworkshop: A Methodology of Bodily and Cyber-Ethnographic Representations in Migration Studies.
  • 16.1 Introduction
  • 16.2 Invisible Migrants Travelling for Work
  • 16.3 Methodology
  • 16.3.1 Reflections on my Migratory Experience
  • 16.3.2 Nightworkshop Methodology: Researching All Night
  • 16.3.3 Bodily Notetaking: Gathering Sensorial Knowledge
  • 16.4 Research-Based Short-Film in Migration Studies
  • 16.5 Cyber-Ethnography: Tracking Space and Time to Learn about Bodily Knowledge
  • 16.6 A Trilogy: Invisible, Nocturnal and Sleepless Lives of Migrant Night Workers
  • 16.6.1 Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Workers in London (2013, UK)
  • 16.6.2 Nocturnal Lives: Day Sleepers (2015, UK)
  • 16.6.3 Nightshift Spitalfields: A Participatory Approach to Visual Storytelling
  • 16.7 Discussion
  • 16.8 Bring the real Lives into reel Stories
  • 16.9 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 17: Conclusions: "Ways of Representation": Is a Reflexive Representation Possible?
  • 17.1 Common Analytical Categories: Visual Storytelling, Opportunities for Co-participation and Reflexivity
  • 17.2 Lost and Found in Representations
  • 17.3 Ethical Issues
  • 17.4 Commentary
  • References
  • Chapter 18: Afterword: Visual Research in Migration. (In)Visibilities, Participation, Discourses
  • 18.1 What Does Visual Research Methods Add to the Study of Migration?
  • 18.2 The Right to Disappear
  • 18.3 Transitions. Changes. Being on the Move. What Is That All About?
  • References
  • Correction to: Migrant Cine-Eye: Storytelling in Documentary and Participatory Filmmaking
  • Correction to: Chapter 7 in: K. Nikielska-Sekula, A. Desille (eds.), Visual Methodology in Migration Studies, IMISCOE Research Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67608-7_7.

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