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Unofficial truths and everyday insights : understanding voice in visual research with the children of Accra's urban poor
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Mizen, Phil and Ofosu-Kusi, Yaw (2010) Unofficial truths and everyday insights : understanding voice in visual research with the children of Accra's urban poor. Visual Studies, Volume 25 (Number 3). pp. 255-267. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2010.523278 ISSN 1472-586X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2010.523278
Abstract
This article draws upon the use of photography to research the lives of children living in Accra, Ghana. Its aim is to consider method in visual research, and to reflect upon those modes of explanation and understanding that any consideration of method must require. It suggests a role for photography as a 'vector', as something capable of connecting our knowledge and understanding of the everyday with the everyday experiences and reality of others. Drawing upon the photographs and spoken testimonies of children who live and work on the street, and of children who live in a large informal settlement, the article advances an intimate connection between photography and knowledge of the everyday reality of children's lives, most evident in the capacity of children's photographs to surprise and highlight the fallibility of our understandings.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Urban poor -- Ghana -- Accra, Visual sociology, Photography in the social sciences, Street children -- Ghana -- Accra -- Social conditions | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Visual Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1472-586X | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 25 | ||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 255-267 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1472586X.2010.523278 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Funder: | University of Warwick Research Development Fund |
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