918
Coping with Difference: Visual Representation As a Practice for Confronting the Other

Thursday, July 17, 2014: 8:30 AM-10:20 AM
Room: 417
WG03 Visual Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

The session addresses the challenges and advantages of using visual approach to studying and confronting with socially constructed disparities or differences, which can be associated with 1. Different levels of underlying social advantage or position in a social hierarchy; 2. Social advantage or position reflected by economic resources, occupation, education, racial/ethnic group, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics associated with greater access to resources, influence, prestige, and social inclusion; 3. Experiences of migration, their triggers and aftermaths.
Session Organizers:
Anna SCHOBER, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, Jorn AHRENS, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany and Dennis ZUEV, Independent Scholar, Russia
Chair:
Eric MARGOLIS, Arizona State University, USA
Discussant:
Dee BRITTON, State University of New York, USA
918.1
Hong Kong Family Play, Childhood Culture, and Social Reproduction (Oral Presentation)
Kimburley CHOI, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

918.2
Varieties of Visual ‘Europe' in Images of Illegalized Mobility (Oral Presentation)
Rogier VAN REEKUM, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

918.3
Visualizing Society: Immigrant Integration Expertise As a Sphere of Calculability (Oral Presentation)
Sanne BOERSMA, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

918.4
The Politics of 'other' Women in Indian Cinema (Oral Presentation)
Pranta Pratik PATNAIK, Central University of Rajasthan (India), India

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