What is the role and challenges of visual and participatory methods in international relations and fieldwork research?
To answer this question we are joined by Professor Sophie Harman from Queen Mary University of London. Professor Harman will give a short presentation providing an overview of her project on the politics of everyday life, public health and HIV/AIDS in Africa, as synthesised in her book Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method and International Relations. She will discuss her research design and the challenges of conducting participatory research using visual methods. The presentation will be concluded with reflections on the wider state of visual methods and a Q&A session.
About the speaker:
Sophie Harman is Professor of International Politics with a specific interest in global health, African Agency, film and visual methods, and gender politics. She has published seven books and numerous peer reviewed articles on these subjects - including Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method and International Relations (McGill Queens University Press, 2019) and Global Health Governance (Routledge, 2012), 2nd edition forthcoming 2024).
She was awarded the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a mid-career scholar by the Political Science Association (PSA) in 2018, the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2018, and nominated for the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer in 2019 for her feature film Pili.
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