On film as a method, gender and health politics: conversation with Sophie Harman

Harman, Sophie; Patarin-Jossec, Julie; Hansen, Susan; Grady, John

doi:10.1080/1472586x.2021.1887675

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“…The turn identified some important features of the aesthetic: its ability to challenge the logical integrity of other methods and expand as a consequence the type of discourses, subject matters and objects of enquiry; its ability to show the particularity of claims advanced and to show the power relations at the heart of our descriptive or analytical statements, but also its insistence on the fact that every object of study is encountered via a mediation and not in-itself. As Harman (2019) puts it, ‘film depicts the rhythms and temporality of the everyday and the hidden dimensions of politics that cannot be captured by the written word’ (15). Callahan (2020) broadens the scope considerably by working on the dyad visibility/visuality, where the former ‘deconstructs’, whilst the latter ‘creates’ (20).…”

Section: The Turn and Its Limitsmentioning

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The patch as method: The arts’ contribution towards understandings of conflict

Rugo

2023

International Political Science Review

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This article asks: how do art practice and research give form to changing dynamics of conflict? Its argument is two-fold: art’s contribution can be developed from empirical considerations (what art finds out), and from methodological ones (how art finds something out). Bringing in art practice and the research methods it informs into political science helps understand conflict and its changes: by engaging simultaneously with the interaction between the collective and the personal, art practice and research elucidates those complex and layered narratives used by various actors in conflict that often resist approaches rooted in social and political sciences. By paying attention to everyday interactions and emphasizing dynamism, art provides a different way to chart changes in armed conflict. Art documents discourses that are difficult to communicate otherwise and allows us to detect and engage with the grey areas, transformations, processes and ambivalences of conflicts that escape neat categorizations.

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Section: The Turn and Its Limitsmentioning

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The patch as method: The arts’ contribution towards understandings of conflict

Rugo

2023

International Political Science Review

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“…Despite the significant changes in the understanding of the causes of famine, Campbell 29 finds that the photographic portrayal of famine has remained rather static as stereotypical portraits of famine are continued to be produced and, in the case of HIV/ AIDS, shows how images of abject individuals support a reduction of the pandemic as a general construct to a specific embodiment. 30 Working on and especially with women with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania, Harman 31 explores film as a visual method to challenge these narratives.…”

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Disentangling the Protection Suit: Images, Artefacts, and the Making of the Health-Security Nexus

Krause

2021

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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The protection suit is the icon of infectious disease outbreaks. I argue that the protection suit has performative power not only by shaping the daily tasks of health workers and their interaction with patients, but also as a visual artefact and as a two-dimensional image determining how health crises and their security implications are understood and dealt with. The article proceeds in three steps: it firstly highlights the current absence of visuality in the academic literature on health security and makes the case for including it in the debate. Secondly, with recourse to Actor-Network Theory (ANT) it theoretically locates visual representations, as images and artefacts, as actors that act and enact each other in the health-security nexus. The third part of the article follows the protection suit during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and maps the visual network it creates. In doing so this article demonstrates how the suit as artefact and image constitutes a network that visually and sensually links the bodies of patients, health workers and distant viewers in complex and at times competing makings of health security.

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On film as a method, gender and health politics: conversation with Sophie Harman

Cited by 2 publications

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The patch as method: The arts’ contribution towards understandings of conflict

The patch as method: The arts’ contribution towards understandings of conflict

Disentangling the Protection Suit: Images, Artefacts, and the Making of the Health-Security Nexus

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