Performativity and Digitally Enhanced Dispute in the Public Space of Santiago de Chile: Photoetnography and analysis of the Gay Pride March
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2016
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PALGRAVE
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Although in our daily lives we constantly produce and publish images as language, means of interaction and device of visualization, and that in the social sciences the visual data have an undeniable value of use - with almost two centuries of presence in the work of Field - in the networks of publication and exchange of knowledge has not been assigned a value of change according to its use. The text maintains a practical monopoly in the categorization and analysis of data, a currency of exchange required to participate in the academic debate. However, in investigating and describing commemorative marches in public space, such as the Gay Pride March in Santiago, it is impossible to account verbatim for the complex connotations of its performativity. With the aim of releasing its constitutive characteristics, we developed a photoetnographic analysis to approach a predominantly performance event, such as the Gay Pride March. These events call for research and publication procedures that demonstrate their visual richness as a mode of political expression.
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Commemorative Demonstration, Public Space, Photoetnography, Performativity, Visibility