Volume 17, Issue 1, published 29 Feb 2012
Special Issue: Visual Methods
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Use of Visual Methods in Social Research
by Ross Coomber and Gayle Letherby
Ethical Regulation and Visual Methods: Making Visual Research Impossible or Developing Good Practice?
by Rose Wiles, Amanda Coffey, Judy Robison and Jon Prosser
Community Health Workers Working the Digital Archive: A Case for Looking at Participatory Archiving in Studying Stigma in the Context of HIV and AIDS
by Naydene de Lange and Claudia Mitchell
Looking for Africville - Complementary Visual Constructions of a Contended Space
by Stephen Spencer
Capturing Christmas: The Sensory Potential of Data from Participant Produced Video
by Stewart Muir and Jennifer Mason
The North Laine: A Visual Essay
by Chris Yuill
Conceptualizing the 'Visual Essay' as a Way of Generating and Imparting Sociological Insight: Issues, Formats and Realisations
by Luc Pauwels
Video and a Sense of the Invisible: Approaching Domestic Energy Consumption Through the Sensory Home
by Sarah Pink and Kerstin Leder Mackley
A Video Testimony on Rural Poverty and Social Exclusion
by Eldin Fahmy and Simon Pemberton
Rapid Response: Social Unrest in England
More Than Anarchy in the UK: 'Social Unrest' and its Resurgence in the Madoffized Society
by Lee F. Monaghan and Micheal O'Flynn
Communities, Centres, Connections, Disconnections: Some Reflections on the Riots in Birmingham
by Gargi Bhattacharyya, James Cowles, Steve Garner and Ajmal Hussain
Book Reviews
The Freedom to Be Racist?: How the United States and Europe Struggle to Preserve Freedom and Combat Racism by Bleich, Erik
Reviewed by Karim Murji
Consumer Culture by Lury, Celia
Reviewed by Anna Schneider