Fink, Janet and Lomax, Helen
(2012).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/0261018311425196 |
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Abstract
Drawing upon a growing interest in the impact of visual culture and the use of visual data within the health and social sciences, the introduction to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examines what visual meth¬odologies and visual ‘evidence’ can bring to the study of social inequali¬ties. It sets out the specific contributions by authors in order to identify their different methodological approaches, theoretical interests and ana¬lytical concerns and to explore the implications and possibilities of their visual methodologies for those researching and working in the policy arena. With a particular emphasis on the dialogues between context, text and image, the paper highlights the insights generated by the collection into the forms and experiences of inequality that have shaped and continue to shape societies, communities, families and individual lives. It also sug¬gests how the visual might contribute to extending understanding of the ways social inequalities are imagined, constituted and reinforced.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 The Authors |
| ISSN: | 0261-0183 |
| Funders: | ESRC - RES-451-26-0722-A |
| Keywords: | context; interpretation; policy; social inequalities; visual methods |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology Health and Social Care > Health and Social Care |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) |
| Item ID: | 31050 |
| Depositing User: | Helen Lomax |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2012 10:31 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2012 14:13 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/31050 |
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