47.1 - Visibilities of Violence

Special Issue– Visibilities of Violence: Microscopic Studies of Violent Events and Beyond. (Thomas Hoebel, Jo Reichertz & René Tuma)

• Thomas Hoebel, Jo Reichertz & René Tuma: Visibilities of Violence. On Visual Violence Research and Current Methodological Challenges.

Contributions
I.  Facing Violence: Microscopic Studies with and without Audiovisual Data

• Anne Nassauer: Video Data Analysis as a Tool for Studying Escalation Processes: The Case of Police Use of Force.
• Christian Meyer & Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt: Opening the Black Box: An Ethnomethodological Approach for the Video-Based Analysis of Violence.
• Laura D. Keesman & Don Weenink: Feel it Coming: Situational Turning Points in Police-Civilian Encounters.
• Susanne Nef & Friederike Lorenz-Sinai: Multilateral Generation of Violence: On the Theorization of Microscopic Analyses and Empirically Grounded Theories of Violence.
• Frithjof Nungesser: Studying the Invisible. Experiences of Extreme Violence as a Methodological Challenge.

II.  Shifting Limitations: The Temporal Embedding and Unfolding of Violent Events

• Wolff-Michael Roth: The Emergence and Unfolding of Violent Events: A Transactional Approach.
• Jo Reichertz: Escalation of Violence in Unclear Situations – A Methodological Proposal for Video Analysis.
• Ekkehard Coenen & René Tuma: Contextural and Contextual – Introducing a Heuristic of Third Parties in Sequences of Violence.
• Thomas Hoebel: Emplotments of Violence. On Narrative Explanations and their Audiovisual Data.

III.  Challenging Research: Methodological, Theoretical and Ethical Problems of Analyzing Violence

• Thomas Alkemeyer: The Embodied Subjectivities of Videography.
• Gesa Lindemann, Jonas Barth & Johanna Fröhlich: The Methodological Relevance of a Theory-of-Society Perspective for the Empirical Analysis of Violence.
• César Antonio Cisneros Puebla: Microsociology of Killing in Mexican Video Executions.