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The diary of a high school student ~ thinking about representation
The following isn’t from a research project, but in a similar vein to the “The Slow, Costly Death of Mrs. K.” captures Rohan Nuttall’s (a Grade 12 student at Strathcona Composite High School in...
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Epistemology ~ artfully rendered
Julissa Lopez uses collages to illustrate the thinking of those who have deeply influenced the ways knowledge is conceptualized. Kant, Hume, and others’ thoughts are rendered artistically.
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Dissertation writing, at the margins
Although PhD students have much greater freedom to explore alternative ways of doing their dissertation research and presenting what they have learned, I suspect the academy is still pretty...
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Infographics as data representation
There are ever more good examples of using images to illustrate big data, trends, and connections. A nice example is the Environmental Justice Atlas, an EU project to catalogue “ecological distribution...
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Stories We Tell ~ an introduction to narrative inquiry
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ~ Joan Didion Sarah Polley’s film Stories We Tell is about her mother Diane Polley, or so it seems initially. It is much more than that though. It is an...
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a visual dictionary of big philosophical ideas
The Philographics: Big Ideas in Simple Shapes is a novel, delightful representation of core ideas in philosophy, many of which underpin the research enterprise. For some folks, the images may capture...
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food ~ illustrating how material culture explains many things
This post is about food, really about food as a window on culture. It is meant to illustrate how something ordinary can be a powerful analytic construct. So even though this is about food, it’s not...
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Narrative Analysis Tools
TV Tropes is a rich wiki repository of resources described as tricks of the trade for writing fiction, but as social scientists we borrow as needed in trying to understand and explain the social world....
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Photo essays
Photo essays have been around for a long time ~ they are a series of photos, sometimes with captions, descriptive and/or explanatory text. Usually photo essays illustrate something that is more...
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people and stuff ~ a few more thoughts on material culture
Consider this strategy suggested by Ali McCannell, a UBC graduate student ~ if you want to know what matters to people in a particular community, city, country visit a convenience or corner store and...
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the power of images
This image, a family photograph, taken by Hannah Hawkes Photography has gone viral. Mostly people are outraged. The image is a disturbing one, to be sure… a mother and her daughters with their mouths...
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streetscapes & architecture ~ sources of material culture
Camilo Jose Vergara’s project Tracking Time is a repository of images of poor, urban American built environments. Returning year after year, Vergara photographs the same buildings and streetscapes to...
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Filmmaking and Research
Can filmmaking deepen and broaden the scope of rigorous scholarship? On June 27, 2016, Joel Bakan, Phillip Vannini and Charles Menzies discussed this question. Organized by UBC’s Public Scholars...
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Dissertation writing, at the margins
Although PhD students have much greater freedom to explore alternative ways of doing their dissertation research and presenting what they have learned, I suspect the academy is still pretty...
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food ~ illustrating how material culture explains many things
This post is about food, really about food as a window on culture. It is meant to illustrate how something ordinary can be a powerful analytic construct. So even though this is about food, it’s not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Narrative Analysis Tools
TV Tropes is a rich wiki repository of resources described as tricks of the trade for writing fiction, but as social scientists we borrow as needed in trying to understand and explain the social world....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photo essays
Photo essays have been around for a long time ~ they are a series of photos, sometimes with captions, descriptive and/or explanatory text. Usually photo essays illustrate something that is more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
people and stuff ~ a few more thoughts on material culture
Consider this strategy suggested by Ali McCannell, a UBC graduate student ~ if you want to know what matters to people in a particular community, city, country visit a convenience or corner store and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
the power of images
This image, a family photograph, taken by Hannah Hawkes Photography has gone viral. Mostly people are outraged. The image is a disturbing one, to be sure… a mother and her daughters with their mouths...
View ArticleClik here to view.
streetscapes & architecture ~ sources of material culture
Camilo Jose Vergara’s project Tracking Time is a repository of images of poor, urban American built environments. Returning year after year, Vergara photographs the same buildings and streetscapes to...
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