La Sociologia Pubblica e l'Open Access | Università degli Studi di Genova

[Google translate] Public Sociology and Open Access | University of Genoa

Laboratory of visual sociology of the University of Genoa

The latest novelty of the Laboratory of Visual Sociology of the University of Genoa - www.laboratoriosociologiavisuale.it - is the series Immagina-zioni Sociali. The ambition of Image-Social Actions is to accompany the rethinking of sociology as a profession of storytelling, to encourage the de-registration of social worlds beyond the classical canons of academic writing, to bring out the invisible cities and subjects without a voice in the public narrative, to explore themes and problems of contemporaneity through critical and unthinkable glances. In this perspective, it seeks to combine and hybridise ethnography and scientific rigour with new languages/methods linked to art, photography and cinema, illustrations and comics, museum and theatre, fiction and digital archives.

With the same intentions that have animated all the work done in these 10 years by the collective of the Laboratory, this initiative also moves in the direction of making sociological knowledge more accessible, a knowledge that, according to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, must help people to develop "social antibodies" that allow "not to act in the social world as a magnet in a magnetic field. This series tries to do this, for example, with particular attention to form: through work on simplifying language and with the use of many images and graphic solutions that facilitate reading. But it does so, also and above all, through the form of open access.