EthnoGRAPHIC: An Interview

Eduardo Barberis; Barbara Grüning; Sherine Hamdy; Coleman Nye; Francesco Dragone

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12778

Authors

Eduardo Barberis Department of Economics, Society, Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2713-133X

Eduardo Barberis is Associate Professor of Spatial and Environmental Sociology at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy. His research interests include the territorial dimension of welfare policies and of migration processes
Barbara Grüning Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2463-8880

Barbara Grüning is a Senior Researcher in Cultural Sociology at the University of Milan – Bicocca. Her research interests range from the sociology of space to the sociology of the body, the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of memory, the history of the social sciences, the sociology of academic labor, and comics studies
Sherine Hamdy Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Sherine Hamdy is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on medical anthropology and science and technology in the Middle East. She previously was an assistant professor in anthropology at Brown University; in 2009 she was the Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences. She is the co-author of Lissa. A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution.
Coleman Nye Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3440-464X

Coleman Nye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is the co-author of Lissa. A Story of Friendship, Medical Promise, and Revolution (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and is completing a book entitled Biological Property: Race, Gender, Genetics. Nye’s work has been published in such journals as Social Text, TDR: The Drama Review, Women and Performance, Global Public Health, and ADA: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
Francesco Dragone Independent

Francesco Dragone is a producer, director, camera operator and video editor of both fiction and nonfiction video projects.He received a postgraduate certificate in Digital and Visual Cultures from ISCTE Lisbon (Portugal, 2011) and a Master of Arts in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin (Germany, 2013). With a strong knowledge of visual storytelling and narrative structures, Francesco enthusiastically brings his wide set of both technical and theoretical skills to every project he engages in.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12778

Keywords:

Graphic Novels, Collaborative Ethnography, Research Process, Medical Anthropology, Teaching Anthropology

Abstract

The interview focuses on the book series EthnoGRAPHIC (University of Toronto Press) and the graphic novel Lissa. A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship and Revolution, the first book of the series. Four points arise from the interview with authors Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, and with the filmmaker Francesco Dragone, who documented their research process.

First, the problem of funding multimedia and innovative research projects, aimed to find new ways of communicating social research. Second, the question to what extent such projects are recognized and legitimated within the Academia. Third, the audience potentially interested in reading (ethno)graphic novels and, relatedly, their usability in teaching social sciences.

Finally, the concerns and practicalities in putting together different narrative forms. This effort of combining several ways of representing social reality, also concerns the organization of the research itself as well as conducting fieldwork and the capability of thinking “graphically” from scratch instead of adapting textual data collected during the research.

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