654
Visual Culture and the (Re-)Creation of Everyday Life

Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 10:45-12:15
Location: Hörsaal 13 (Juridicum)
WG03 Visual Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

Everyday life usually goes unnoticed. It has to do with repetition, with the regular, but also with consummation and continuance. Visual culture is involved in the constitution and maintenance of everyday life as well as in creating meaning in respect to it. As such it testifies to ordinary processes which often escape our attention. Everyday life, however, is also a site from which rupture, change and even revolution might arise. And since the ordinary and the everyday are linked to commonality, i.e. to a notion of society rather than to the individual, visual culture also testifies to transformations of our ways of being in common.   
At the same time, however, visual culture can trigger identification and adoption processes as well as conflict, and in this way becomes itself an agent transforming everyday life. Hence it also indicates passages from remaining unnoticed to becoming noticed – which highlights the political capacity of the visual.  
The session explores the multiple relations between everyday life and visual culture. Papers can include examinations focusing on any of the following topics: 

  • the role of visual culture in achieving everyday processes and rituals as well as in triggering change and upheaval;
  • “the political” in the relationship between visual culture and everyday life;
  • the visual perceived as an archive of forms of everyday life (also in a comparative perspective, relating to different cultures, ages, genders, etc.); 
  • the uses and adoptions of various forms of visual culture in everyday practices, feelings or conditions.
Session Organizers:
Anna SCHOBER, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany and Regev NATHANSOHN, University of Michigan, USA
Chair:
Mateusz HALAWA, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Discussant:
Anna SCHOBER, Justus Liebig University, Germany
Posters:
654.1
(Re-)Framing the "Downtown People" of Haifa
Ayelet KOHN, Department of Communication, David Yellin College of Education, Israel; Regev NATHANSOHN, University of Michigan, USA
654.2
Exploring the Significance of Visual Culture in Young People's Attempts to Accomplish Everyday Life in Disadvantaged Circumstances and the Complexities of Representing and Politicising Such Private Circumstances Visually
Sarah WILSON, School of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
654.3
We Want Things Different – the Visual Culture of Growing Ecological Awareness and New Emancipatory Lifestyle Experiments in the 1970s
Martina FINEDER, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
654.4
Family Photographs and Ontological Narrativity: A Relational, Performative, and Ecological Approach
Andrea DOUCET, Brock University, Canada
654.6
Confectionery Trade Cards and Visual Culture of Russia at the Turn of XIX-XX Centuries.
Natalia MIKHAYLOVA, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia
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