Social Visualities

This book series, affiliated with the ISA's RC57 research group, examines the role and function of images, objects and/or performances within society and/or in particular cultures or communities. The series foregrounds visuality as a useful theme to approach the production, representation and naturalisation of power (state or otherwise) and society that otherwise remains hidden or unseeable.

With an emphasis on socio-visual thinking, the series unpicks some of the pre-existing imaginaries and boundaries that still dominate a major discipline like sociology. In particular, the ways in which we engage with images, their production and use in specific spaces and contexts. To this end, Social Visualities looks to further normalise the visual as a valid data source as well as provide a platform for the interrogation and analysis of new, emerging and ever-changing types of visual data and image production practices.

The series provides theoretically rich, case-study oriented guides that address the ongoing scholarly and pedagogic ‘visual turn’ in the social sciences, including, but not limited to visual global politics and international relations, visual criminology as well as topics more broadly associated to visual culture and society.