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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Visuality/materiality : images, objects and practices.
1. Visual communication. 2. Visual literacy.3. Geographical perception. 4. Human ecology.
I. Rose, Gillian, 1962- II. Tolia-Kelly, Divya Praful.
304.2-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Visuality/ materiality : images, objects and practices / by Gillian Rose and Divya P. Tolia-Kelly., [editors].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9781409412229 (hardback) -- ISBN 9781315547930 (ebook) 1. Material culture. 2. Visual perception. 3. Visual communicaiton. I. Rose, Gillian. II. Tolia-Kelly, Divya Praful.
GN406.V57 2012
302.23--dc23
2011037642
ISBN 9781409412229 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315547930 (ebk)
About the Contributors
Editors
Gillian Rose is a Professor in Cultural Geography at the Open University. She is a significant author within the field of visual culture. Her particular interest is in considering visuality as a kind of practice, done by human subjects in collaboration with different kinds of objects and technologies. Her current research includes working with Architects on UK Research Council funded project Architectural Atmospheres which follows from the research project Urban Aesthetics. She is the author of Visual Methodologies (Palgrave, 2001) and Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment (Ashgate, 2010).
Divya P. Tolia-Kelly is a Reader in Geography at Durham University, UK. Her research has focused on visual cultures, material cultures, landscape and race-memory. In collaborations with landscape artists Melanie Carvalho and Graham Lowe and through ethnographic investigation she has co-curated several exhibitions including An Archaeology of Race, Nurturing Ecologies and Describe a Landscape . Her recent research monograph is entitled Landscape, Race and Memory (Ashgate, 2010). She is currently collaborating with artists on research entitled An Archaeology of Race at the Museum. Here she critically engages with the universalizing, imperial accounts of the theories of art and material culture from a postcolonial perspective.
Chapters
Caren Yglesias is a Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland. She has expertise in landscape architecture design and practice. Her most recent monograph (2012) is entitled The Complete House and Grounds: Learning from A.J. Downings Domestic Architecture. Caren is currently holder of an American Association of University Women (AAUW) fellowship (2012-13). She is also a significant contributor to contemporary dialogues on architectures for living via her blog: www.homesforliving.blogspot.com.
Claire Waterton is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include: investigating the making and politics of scientific knowledge on nature and the environment; public perceptions of environmental issues and environmental risks; the relationship of scientific knowledge to contemporary environmental policymaking; science studies and the management of the rural environment.
Ian J. Winfield is a Researcher at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Lancaster Environment Centre, UK. His research focuses on the management of freshwater fish undertaken within a Lake Ecosystem Group. This work is augmented by the use of state-of-the-art hydro acoustics to investigate fish abundance, distribution and size structure, together with aspects of their biotic and abiotic environments.
Ignaz Strebel is with the Centre for Research on Architecture, Society and the Built Environment at ETH Zrich (ETH Wohnforum ETH CASE). He spent a number of years doing project work in geography and architecture at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh (www.ace.ed.ac.uk/highrise/). His research touches upon science and technology studies of work place activities, decision-making and social complexity and related issues of urban change.
Jane M. Jacobs has a Chair in Cultural Geography at University of Edinburgh. Her research interests fall into two broad, and sometimes related, areas: postcolonial geographies and geographies of architecture. Her publications include: Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City (Routledge, 1996), Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (Melbourne University Press, 1998), and Cities of Difference (Guilford, 1998).
Judith Tsouvalis is a lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include: the production of socio-natures, hybrids and cyborgs and how to do politics with things; the formation of knowledge-cultures and associated power-relations; symbolism, visualization and questions of representation of non-human actants in society; and the philosophy of time and space. Her present research is in Loweswater, in the English Lake District, with a focus on new forms of environmental governance.
Karen Wells is a lecturer in Geography at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her current research focus is on how international political economy including war, international law, and global capitalism impacts on children and childhood; visual research methods; and the visual cultures of childhood.
Mark Jackson is a Lecturer in Geographer at Bristol University, UK with interests in political economy and historical and cultural geography. His interests traverse the domains of postcolonialism, urban geography, social theory, political ecology and political economy, with a focus on theories of modernity, urbanity, political ontology, materialities of economy, science and technology and aesthetic representation.
