Book Launch: Fragments d'images

Join us for the launch of the book , edited by Isabelle Perreault and Dahlia Namian.

This event is presented in French and open to everyone.

Event location

Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop
95 Clegg Stree
Ottawa, ON
K1S 1C4

About the book
Visual approaches in the humanities and social sciences have been growing in popularity in recent years: photography, comic books, documentaries, ethnographic films, cartography, drawings, visual archives, not to mention the many possibilities offered by digital technologies.
Despite this growing interest, these approaches remain rarely recognized in French-language research. This edited work, which brings together researchers and multidisciplinary artists, explores new avenues of enquiry and research in the visual field. Visual approaches invite us to tell our personal stories in different ways, to loosely quote John Berger. They prolong the power of words, drawing attention to the sensory experience of tiny, fragile, ignored, silent, evanescent lives or those that have turned to ashes.
While the proliferation of images and visual creations is characteristic of our digital age, their uses and the reflections they provoke testify to a persistent and stubborn desire to understand the social world, with its upheavals, constraints, and possibilities.
The stubborn determination to bear witness, to report, to interpret, to reappropriate and even to blur genres through the visual arts testifies, beyond words, to our salutary ontological fragility: what we know and see is never fully fixed.

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About the authors

Isabelle Perreault is a historian and Full Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She is interested in the historical sociology of life choices (suicide and abortion) and non-normative sexuality, as well as psychiatric (de)institutionalization in Quebec during the 20th century. She is codirector of the axis Biopolitical Issues and Minority Groups, along with Dahlia Namian.
Dahlia Namian is a sociologist and Full Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa. She is an affiliated researcher at the Montreal Research Center on Social Inequalities (CREMIS) and co-director of the Biopolitical Issues and Minority Groups research group at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Citizenship and Minorities (CIRCEM). She is also a member of the coordinating committee of the Centre interdisciplinaire en droit social de l'Outaouais (CIDSO). Her research focuses on social inequalities and health, specifically the construction and regulation of the social pathologies of capitalism, such as homelessness, poverty, and addiction.

Collaborators: Philippe Artières, Robert Bastien, Mathieu Brouillard, Jean-François Cauchie, Tara Chanady, Clément de Gaulejac, Emmanuelle Dufour, Olivier Ferlatte, Steven High, David Jaclin, Dan Kaminski, Brigitte Lacasse, Sara Lambert, Efe Peker, Christian Quesnel, Magali Uhl and Annaëlle Winand.

Host or Publisher University of Ottawa Press (PUO-UOP)