Social Sciences/Comics: A Commentary on Sociologica’s Exploration of Comics

Ian  Hague

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12780

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Ian Hague London College of Communication, University of the Arts London https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6330-2135

Dr Ian Hague is a Contextual and Theoretical Studies Coordinator and Research Coordinator in the Design School at London College of Communication. His research looks at sensory and material cultures, with a particular focus on comics and related forms. Ian is the author of Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels (Routledge, 2014). He co-edited Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels (Routledge, 2015), Contexts of Violence in Comics and Representing Acts of Violence in Comics (both Routledge, 2020). In 2009, Ian founded Comics Forum, an annual conference that runs as part of the Thought Bubble sequential art festival. In 2011 he launched the Comics Forum website, which publishes scholarship from around the world. In 2018 he co-founded the Comics Research Hub (CoRH) at UAL.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12780

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Comics Studies, Social Science, Accessibility, Dissemination, Translation, Adaptation, Impact, Institutions

Abstract

The writings collected in issue 15(1) of Sociologica take diverse approaches to the relationships between social sciences and comics. This commentary identifies several of the themes that bring these pieces together and make some suggestions for how the ideas and approaches sketched out in these pieces might be developed further in the future. The commentary explores how the ideas set forth in the articles overlap with concerns found in the field of Comics Studies and what the lessons learned by Comics Studies might have to offer to the field of social sciences.

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Barberis, E., Grüning, B., Hamdy, S., Nye, C. & Dragone, F. (2021). EthnoGRAPHIC: An Interview. Sociologica,15(1), 291–298. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12778

Berthaut, J., Bidet, J., & Thura, M. (2021). Making Sociologically-Grounded Fictions. A Review of the SocioramaCollection Experience. Sociologica, 15(1), 265–290. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12781

Cancellieri, A. & Peterle, G. (2021). Sociologica, 15(1). Urban Research in Comics Form: Exploring Spaces, Agency and Narrative Maps in Italian Marginalized Neighbourhoods. Sociologica, 15(1), 211–239. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12776

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Evans, B. (2021). Portraits of Violence. Critical Reflections on the Graphic Novel. Sociologica, 15(1), 241–263. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12283

Kuipers, G., & Ghedini, F. (2021). Beauty: Triggering the Sociological Imagination with a Webcomic. Sociologica, 15(1), 143–162. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12774

Schiemer, B., Duffner, R., & Ayers, S.R. (2021a). Theories of Creativity: The Significance of the Insignificant. Research Note: Methodological Reflections behind the Scenes. Sociologica, 15(1), 193–210. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11587

Schiemer, B., Duffner, R., & Ayers, S.R. (2021b). Theories of Creativity: The Significance of the Insignificant. A Graphic Novel. Sociologica, 15(1), 163–191. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/12775

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