
Framing Globalization
Visual Perspectives
Jacqueline A. Gibbons(Author)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 30. November 2007
Book
Hardback
185 pages
978-1-84718-373-6 (ISBN)
Description
The book presents a collection of readings to reflect and develop the varied and dynamic interfaces of globalization: the global and local. The purpose is to identify how global and local dimensions intersect with cultural construction and processes of identity. How do the images around us challenge us in everyday life? We are surrounded by a multitude of images in cultural contexts, with rich semiotic signs and symbols, manifest in posters, graffiti, advertising, the media, photographs, religious representation, sculpture, and myriad art forms. In the context of this assortment of representations, we explore visual sociological threads and constructs that emerge from issues evoked by modern ideas about globalization. This important contemporary theme is moved by the parameters of visual sociology, whereby photographic images in various contexts illustrate, reflect, and generate sociological concepts and theories. The collected writings point to a global stage, as we are guided through lands such as Australia, Britain, Canada, Egypt, France, Italy, and Lithuania, in the quest to understand globalization through prisms such as community, class, gender, ethnicity, and religious background. The book addresses the role of visual communication in an examination of these various theoretical facets, and explores ways in which individuals and institutions exchange information about themselves, their identities, their values, and their ideas of belongingness in the varied guises of culture.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84718-373-6 (9781847183736)
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Persons
Patrizia Faccioli. is Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, and responsible for the Visual Sociology Lab in the Department of Sociology. She is especially interested in the role of sight and images in society and in sociological knowledge and is author of many publications on visual sociology and visual methods in social research.Jacqueline A. Gibbons is ethnographer, photographer and Professor of Sociology and Criminology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her work has led her to Australia, Egypt, India and Japan. She has numerous publications and is especially interested in the role that creativity plays in the lives of women who are physically confined.