Visual Methodologies and Methods for Caribbean Research - by Joyanne de Four-Babb & Sheron Fraser-Burgess (Hardcover)

About the Book

Challenging Western-centric research approaches, this book expands visual research methodologies for Caribbean-specific contexts.

Book Synopsis

This book provides a wealth of insights for research in the Caribbean and the global South more broadly. Its premise - that the specifics of life in these parts of the world are essential in observing, documenting, and transmitting knowledge in and about them - challenges Western-centric approaches and expands visual research methodologies for Caribbean-specific contexts. Visual research methods offer a pathway to documentation and representation of phenomena across multiple domains in various genres of experiences. This compendium of conceptual/theoretical, arts-based and non-arts based empirical research makes the case for visual modality in those research methodologies. The chapters document research in the small countries in the Greater and Lesser Antilles and those that are adjacent to the Caribbean Sea, such as Belize and Bermuda. Altogether, they provide qualitative insight into the human story of sub-populations as well the usefulness of visual tools in representing, documenting, and expressing the meaning and meaning-making that resides there.

About the Author

Joyanne De Four-Babb is Interim Research Director at the University of Belize, Belize.

Sheron Fraser-Burgess is Professor of Social Foundations and Multicultural Education at Ball State University, USA.