Full Description
This book focuses on visual ethnography as a transformative methodology for comprehending, recording, and depicting the complex realities of marginalized populations and overlooked institutional environments. It explores how visual storytelling tools, such as photography, videos, infographics, and spatial mapping, can reveal intricate social, cultural, and economic processes sometimes neglected in traditional textual research. It illustrates, through various case studies, how visual narratives serve as a potent medium to engage with lived experiences, promote collaboration, and contest prevailing representations. It emphasizes the multidisciplinary characteristics of visual ethnography, examining its connections with urban studies, development research, and policy advocacy. It examines the ethical and practical aspects of visual storytelling, emphasizing its capacity to connect academic research, public comprehension, and policy formulation. It aims to establish visual ethnography as an essential instrument for inclusive research and transformative storytelling, promoting its wider implementation to elevate marginalized voices, enhance societal connections, and stimulate significant change in modern urban and social contexts.
Readers of this book on visual storyboards and ethnography will find a particular interest in its innovative methods, significant outcomes, and stimulating topics, which collectively connect academic research, advocacy, and practical applications.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Framing Impact - Introduction to Visual Storyboards.- Chapter 2: Expanding Horizons - Methodological Innovations and Literature in Contemporary Ethnography.- Chapter 3: Marginal Frames: Visual Ethnography of Excluded Communities in Kashmir.- Chapter 4: Framing Lived Realities: Employing Visual Ethnography to Document Informal Settlements, Case Study of Kapershera.- Chapter 5: Crafting Narratives: A Visual Ethnography of Papier Mâché Artisans in Kashmir.- Chapter 6: Visual Storyboards in Action: A Methodological Journey in Assam's Bodoland.- Chapter 7: Framing Craft: A Visual Ethnography of Ajrakh Artisans in Kutch, Gujarat.- Chapter 8: Reimagining Ethnography: Reflections and Future Directions for Visual Storytelling.
