Comics As A Research Practice Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond The Frame | Geography

This book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics. It presents a transdisciplinary approach that uses a set of qualitative visual methods and extends from within the geohumanities across literary spatial studies comics urban studies mobility studies and beyond. Written by a geographer-cartoonist the book focuses on ‘narrative geographies’ and embraces a geocritical and relational approach to examine comic book geographies in pursuit of a growing interest in creative art-based experimental methods in the geohumanities. It explores comics-based research through interconnections between art and geography and through theoretical and methodological contributions from scholars working in the fields of the social sciences humanities literary geographies mobilities comics literary studies and urban studies as well as from visual artists comics authors and art practitioners. Comics are valuable objects of geographical interest because of their spatial grammar. They are also a language particularly suited to geographical analysis and the ‘geo Graphic novel’ offers a practice of research that has the power to assemble and disassemble new spatial meanings. The book thus explores how the ‘geo Graphic novel’ as a verbo-visual genre allows the study of geographical issues composes geocentred stories engages wider and non-specialist audiences promotes geo-artistic collaboration and works as a narrative intervention in urban contexts. Through a practice-based approach and the internal perspective of a geographer-cartoonist the book provides examples of how geo Graphic fieldwork is conducted and offers analysis of the processes of ideation composition and dissemination of geo Graphic narratives. |Comics as a Research Practice Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame | Geography