Krista Harper

Essentials of Photovoice in Participatory Visual Research provides a focused and concise guide to Photovoice, enabling new and experienced qualitative social scientists to enter into fieldwork with a deeper knowledge of this exciting research methodology. It covers the history of the method and its place within qualitative research methods as a whole. Through the use of case studies, it demonstrates all aspects of the Photovoice process, including designing Photovoice projects, ethics and protection of subjects, conducting research, analyzing data and writing up. It also covers emerging technologies and platforms for presentation of research, and exhibition of Photovoice images.

Essentials of Photovoice in Participatory Visual Research provides a focused and concise guide to Photovoice, enabling new and experienced qualitative social scientists to enter into fieldwork with a deeper knowledge of this exciting research methodology. It covers the history of the method and its place within qualitative research methods as a whole. Through the use of case studies, it demonstrates all aspects of the Photovoice process, including designing Photovoice projects, ethics and protection of subjects, conducting research, analyzing data and writing up. It also covers emerging technologies and platforms for presentation of research, and exhibition of Photovoice images.

Gubrium and Harper describe how visual and digital methodologies can contribute to a participatory, public-engaged ethnography. These methods can change the traditional relationship between academic researchers and the community, building one that is more accessible, inclusive, and visually appealing, and one that encourages community members to reflect and engage in issues in their own communities. The authors describe how to use photovoice, film and video, digital storytelling, GIS, digital archives and exhibits in participatory contexts, and include numerous case studies demonstrating their utility around the world.

Gubrium and Harper describe how visual and digital methodologies can contribute to a participatory, public-engaged ethnography. These methods can change the traditional relationship between academic researchers and the community, building one that is more accessible, inclusive, and visually appealing, and one that encourages community members to reflect and engage in issues in their own communities. The authors describe how to use photovoice, film and video, digital storytelling, GIS, digital archives and exhibits in participatory contexts, and include numerous case studies demonstrating their utility around the world.

Wild Capitalism examines environmental issues in the "New Europe" of the twenty-first century. Specifically, it looks at how the meanings of "civil society" and "environment" have changed as environmentalists encounter the political and ecological realities of life after state socialism. Although environmentalism is a global social movement, environmental politics is a grassroots process in which activists creatively translate environmental issues into cultural idioms and political processes.