The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future

Collins, Samuel Gerald; Durington, Matthew Slover; Gill, Harjant S.

doi:10.1111/aman.13535

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“…Our vision of an ambivalent multimodality builds on Collins, Durington, and Gill's (2021) interrogation of the colonial frameworks that continue to inform visual scholarship and ethnographic filmmaking and the opportunities that multimodality offers to disrupt them. They state in their farewell essay that they are “encouraged by the opportunities multimodality provides for reframing disciplinary canons and foregrounding scholarship that does not fit into feature‐length documentary‐conventions, that are authored from the margins, and that “celebrate diverse experiences and cinematic sensibilities, especially as the technologies and formats evolve and we rush to update our collections.”…”

Section: Unsettling Visual Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times

Astacio

Dattatreyan

Shankar

2021

American Anthropologist

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Section: Unsettling Visual Anthropologymentioning

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Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times

Astacio

Dattatreyan

Shankar

2021

American Anthropologist

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“…Our vision of an ambivalent multimodality builds on Collins, Durington, and Gill's (2021) interrogation of the colonial frameworks that continue to inform visual scholarship and ethnographic filmmaking and the opportunities that multimodality offers to disrupt them. They state in their farewell essay that they are "encouraged by the opportunities multimodality provides for reframing disciplinary canons and foregrounding scholarship that does not fit into featurelength documentary-conventions, that are authored from the margins, and that "celebrate diverse experiences and cinematic sensibilities, especially as the technologies and formats evolve and we rush to update our collections."…”

Section: Unsettling Visual Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Border South directed by Raúl O. Paz Pastrana United States: Andar Films, 2019. Spanish and English with English subtitles

Ortiz

2021

American Anthropologist

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“…This approach to protest research seems to sit uncomfortably with the traditional kinds of scholarly inquiry offered by the political sciences and sociology disciplines, where most South African protest research is located. It is, instead, more suited to a multimodal approach, which embraces different methods of conducting, analyzing, and interpreting human interaction and social meaning-making (Collins et al, 2021; Marchetti, 2021).…”

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Multimodality, cultural production, and the protest event: Considerations of space, politics, and affect in South Africa

Ngwenya

Malherbe

Seedat

2022

Multimodality & Society

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The high levels of protest in South Africa have produced varied academic literature on the subject. Although political and structural determinants of protest are readily acknowledged, social actors who comprise protest events are rarely centralised within scholarly inquiry. The particularities of protests are thus less considered than the structural issues underlying protests. We therefore argue that studying the multimodality of cultural production within protests affords researchers insight into the socially embedded nature of protest from the perspective of protester as a social actor. When we understand culture as continually being remade with and against different semiotic repertoires, then protest comes to signify a series of dynamic moments wherein cultural meanings are deployed for political purposes. Accordingly, we explore protest in South Africa by examining how the cultural practices of stick-fighting, dance, and song are navigated within the protest as a politico-affective space. Our analysis of cultural production within this space does not diminish the fundamentally political nature of protest, but instead uses cultural registers to expand how we engage the political. We conclude by reflecting on how multimodal considerations push protest research to explore the internal dynamics of protests and what this means for the understanding of protests more generally.

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The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times

Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times

Border South directed by Raúl O. Paz Pastrana United States: Andar Films, 2019. Spanish and English with English subtitles

Multimodality, cultural production, and the protest event: Considerations of space, politics, and affect in South Africa

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