Sociology as/of Visual Activism
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Abstract
Special Sub-Section in Current Sociology 64(1), January 2016
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Volume 64 Number 1 January 2016
Current Sociology
Journal of the
International Sociological Association/ISA
Association Internationale de Sociologie/AIS
Asociación Internacional de Sociología/AIS
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From agency to capabilities: Sen and sociological
theory
Spiros Gangas
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‘Global sociology’ in different disciplinary practices:
Current conditions, problems and perspectives
Pavel Sorokin
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Recent development of propensity score methods
in observational studies : Multi-categorical treatment,
causal mediation, and heterogeneity
Anning Hu and Sarah A Mustillo
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Special Sub Section: Sociology as/of Visual Activism.
Organizer: Regev Nathansohn, University of Michigan
Refugee camp narratives: The role of ‘eye-witness
testimony’ in journalists’ travel accounts
Ayelet Kohn
Visualising disability and activism in Second Life
Geraldine Bloustien and Denise Wood
Being an activist camera: The case of the Karahaber
collective in Turkey
Gülsüm Depeli
Visual activism and social justice: Using visual
methods to make young people’s complex lives
visible across ‘public’ and ‘private’ spaces
Sarah Wilson and EJ Milne
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