Vision and Verticality

This rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more the book signals new moves in inter and multidisciplinary research on visual-vertical thinking and related practices within the social sciences, humanities and across the arts.

Grounded in socio-visual thinking, Vision and Verticality addresses the emerging shift in the way social scientists move from a sociology of or through images towards a sociology with images. In doing so, this volume illustrates how the sky and atmosphere remain a surprisingly underexplored domain within visual sociology, beyond the framework of drone-related research. Finally, this volume asserts how vertical and atmospherically framed socio-visual analysis is beginning to shape and inform how we see and experience urban spaces, travel, leisure, politics, and environmental challenges through various prisms, including artistic practices, methodological processes, and user-generated content.

Examines the relationship between vision and verticality Considers diverse visual artistic approaches to the study of verticality Establishes a conceptual framework for understanding diverse vertical phenomena

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Gary Bratchford is a Senior Lecturer of Photography and Associate Director of Creative Practice Research Academy at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the president of the International Sociological Association's Visual Sociology Research Committee (RC57) and Co Editor of Visual Studies Journal. Dennis Zuev is Professor at the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China, and Senior Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal. He is a cofounder (in 2006) and vice-president (research) of ISA Research Committee in Visual Sociology (20102018).

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Vision and Verticality offers dialogue across disciplines, integration of novel and well-worn theories, reports on research, and reflection on the meaning of the new modern.

It is is dizzying, brilliant and eclectic the topics introduced will have a broad reach and currency far into the future.

Douglas Harper, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Duquesne University, USA. Founding member of the International Visual Sociological Association

Vision and Verticality is a quite beautiful and highly original collection on vision, verticality and the immersive volumes of the air. It is an enthralling, soaring book, told from multiple established and emerging voices, which offers grounding and lift to an emergent more-than sociological expanse of verticality, air and their multitudes of practice. Extraordinary.

Peter Adey, Professor of Human Geography (and Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne) Royal Holloway University of London, UK

"This book is an accessible, provocative and thoughtfully curated collection of groundbreaking interventions into the increasingly multidisciplinary field of Visual Studies. Pedagogically and polemically rich, the volume sets forth an expanded field of visual inquiry that broadens understandings of advanced technological imaging that have been overlooked.

Derek Conrad Murray, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, USA

This rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis. With contributions from astronauts, artists, architects, sociologists, urbanists, visual culture theorists, geographers, anthropologists and more, the book signals new moves in inter and multidisciplinary research on visual-vertical thinking and related practices within the social sciences, humanities and across the arts.

Gary Bratchford is Senior Lecturer of Photography and Associate Director of Creative Practice Research Academy at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is President of the International Sociological Association's Visual Sociology Research Committee (RC57) and CoEditor of Visual Studies Journal.

Dennis Zuev is Professor at the University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China, and Senior Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal. He is a cofounder (in 2006) and vice-president (research) of ISA Research Committee in Visual Sociology (20102018).

Inhalt
Introduction Vision & Verticality: A Visual Sociology of the Sky, Gary Bratchford and Dennis Zuev.- Section 1. Experimental and Experiential Approaches to Volume and Atmospheres.- 1. Open-weather The Open-Weather Feminist Handbook: A Preamble.- 2. Of Carnal Gravity: A Three-voice Conversation, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Jean-François Clervoy and Jeanne More.- 3. Seeing in Verticality: From 'Vertical Gaze' to 'Figuring Out', Andrea Pavoni and Andrea Brighenti.- 4. Vertical Visualities, Experiences and Inequalities: A Conversation with Stephen Graham, Gary Bratchford, Dennis Zuev, and Stephen Graham.- Section 2. Sensing, Seeing, and Monitoring from Above.- 5. Repositioning Drone Sensing in Landscape Urbanism & Planning, Paul Cureton & Ole Jensen.- 6. Vocabularies of Drone Sensing, Anna Jackman - 7. Viewing from Where? Satellite Imaging and the Politics of Space Technology: Unpacking Depravity's Rainbow, Lewis Bush.- 8. The Algorithmic Apparatus of Neocolonialism: Counter-Operational Practices and the Future of Aerial Surveillance, Anthony Downey.- Section 3: Assembling and Representing: Artistic Perspectives on Volume, Vertigo and Falling.- 9. Wassily Kandinsky and the Aerial Gaze: Re-considering the Punctual, Linear, and Planar Forces Inherent in the Politics of Visibility of Civil Drones, Francisco Klauser.- 10. After Falling Away: Eeflections on a Vertiginous Art Exhibition, Davide Deriu.- 11. Towards a Typology of Imaginary Skyscrapers, Ana Aragão.- 12. Higher Returns, David Kendall.- Section 4: Mapping Cultural Landscapes, Vertically.- 13. Epistemology of the 'laje' Notes From Favela Rooftops, Bianca Freire-Medeiros & Leo Name.- 14. Rio's 'Natural Born Monument:' Visual Imaginaries of The Sugarloaf Mountain, Jorge De La Barre.- 15. Elemental Monsters: Using the Wind to Document Protests Against Wind Farms in Tinos, Greece, Adam Fish.- 16. Revitalization and Touristification: the Vertical Cultural Landscape of Dacha Community in Siberia, Artem Yakovlev and Dennis Zuev.