Abstract
The tradition of using qualitative interviews in the study of everyday life, place and identity in geography, housing studies and related disciplines is a long and sound one. Recently there has been increasing interest in using visual methods as part of qualitative methodological approaches. Through our own empirical work, this article explores one position in visual methodology, which suggests visual methods as a way of in a sense getting closer to the lived life. Drawing inspiration from qualitative methodology and performative perspectives in geography, this article argues that this position overlooks the ways in which the visual - here photography - can also be seen as performed. Based on the authors' experiences with visual methods in fieldwork in housing areas in greater Copenhagen, and using both informants' and researchers' photographic work, the article shows how a performative perspective on photography can be used in qualitative research in geography.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| Pages (from-to) | 223-237 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISSN | 0435-3676 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2012 |