Krista Harper

Monica Adams Skips Christmas

At Last

Aline Gubrium

Marty Otanez

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors' Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how a variety of innovative techniques are being used in various field projects across disciplines and geographic locations.

Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action

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.

Participatory Visual and Digital Methods

Valeria Siniscalchi

What can a focus on “food projects” in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates? Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and how food values become tools for transforming power dynamics at the local level and beyond. Through the comparison of food-centered movements across Europe, the book explains how these forms of mobilization express ideologies as well as economic and political objectives. The chapters use an ethnographic approach to focus on the transformation of values carried by individuals and groups in relation to food in Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Moldova, Denmark, the UK, Italy, and France. Contributors analyze food values, as expressed in daily life and livelihoods, through specific practices of production, exchange, and consumption. Topics covered include Prague's urban agricultural scene, the perception of poverty in Moldova, shepherds' protests in Sardinia, and organic food cooperatives in Catalonia.

Food Values in Europe

Summer Murdock As a top Manhattan realtor, my work is my life. It doesn't bother me that I'm still single at thirty or that my assistant is my only friend. I like it that way. But now, I'm being tasked with selling my late grandmother's house in Havila Springs. A small tourist town in the middle of the desert. I lived there briefly during high school and fell hard for the local bad boy, Graison Wells. He broke my heart, and I ran back to New York as fast as I could. It's been over a decade since I've been back or thought about Graison, so my goal for the next forty-eight hours is to handle Grandma Bea's affairs then get the hell out of town before running into anyone from my past. Graison Wells I only have one regret in my life, and her name is Summer Murdock. It was love at first sight until I had no choice but to let her go. That was over ten years ago, and now my life is busy raising a daughter and running a business. The last thing I have time for is Summer coming back to town with her golden legs and sexy smile. I fell for that once, and I'm not gonna let it happen again.

Return to Summer

Ismael Vaccaro

Seth Murray

This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this collection, in contrast, analyzes the disconnection of communities away from the market, presenting a range of ethnographic case studies that scrutinize the framework of this transformative process, analyzing new social formations that are emerging in the voids left behind by the de-industrialization, and introducing a discussion on the potential impacts of the current economic and ecological crises on the hyper-mobile model that has characterized this recent phase of global capitalism and spatially uneven development.

Ethnographies of Disconnection

The Anthropology of Postindustrialism

"What can a focus on approaches to food practices in Europe tell us about the communities and cultures that exist there? Krista Harper and Valeria Siniscalchi show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and food values become tools for transforming power dynamics, in a range of European countries. Through the comparison of local food, food justice and other food-centred movements across Europe, the book explains how these forms of mobilization express ideologies as well as economic and political objectives. The chapters use ethnographic detail to focus on the differences between "new" and "old" values carried by individuals and groups in relation to food in Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Moldova, Denmark, the UK, Italy and France. Contributors analyze food values, as expressed in daily life and livelihoods, through specific practices of production, exchange and consumption. Topics covered include Prague's urban agricultural scene, the perception of poverty in Moldova, and organic food cooperatives in Catalonia"--

1. Making of the Hungarian Environmental Movement -- 2. Chernobyl Stories and Anthropological Shock in Hungary -- 3. Consumers or Citizens? Environmentalism, new Markets and the Public Sphere -- 4. Eco-colonialism: the Emergence of an Environmentalist Critique -- 5. Does Everyone Suffer Alike? Race, Class, and the Postsocialist Environment.

Environmental Activists and Post-socialist Political Ecology in Hungary

Wild Capitalism

Marty Otañez

This collection of original articles, a companion to the authors’ Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, illustrates how innovative visual and digital research techniques are being used in various field projects in health care, environmental policy, urban planning, education and youth development, and heritage management settings. These methodologies produce rich visual and narrative data guided by participant interests and priorities, key tools for collaborative work. The 16 chapters-include digital storytelling, PhotoVoice, community-based filmmaking, participatory mapping and GIS, and participatory digital archival research;-provide a portfolio of model research projects for researchers who wish to collaborate on community-based studies;-will appeal to an audience across social science, heritage, health, education, and social service fields.An open-access companion website will allow readers to view the research products presented in each contributor's chapter.

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.

Krista Harper

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