Aerial Visibilities

Dennis Zuev is Senior Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, and a coordinator of the Research Lab for Cultural Sustainability at the University of St. Joseph, Macau, China. He is also a member of Urban Transitions Hub, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He co-founded (in 2006) ISA Research Committee in Visual Sociology. In 2018, he published Urban Mobility in Modern China: The Growth of the E-bike (2018) and co-authored the book Visual Sociology: Politics and Practices in Contested Space with Gary Bratchford (2021).Gary Bratchford is Associate Professor of Photography at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the co-editor of Visual Studies Journal and Visual Culture in Britain. He was President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee for Visual Sociology (RC57) from 2018 to 2023.

• Preface - Moving Up: Plotting the Vertical Turn in Sociology 1. Aerial visibilities: towards a visual sociology of the sky 2. Thinking with the drone – visual lessons in aerial and volumetric thinking 3. Vertical vision and atmocultural navigation. Notes on emerging urban scopic regimes 3. The citizen drone: protest, sousveillance and droneviewing 5. Who owns the sky? Aerial resistance and the state/corporate no-fly zone 6. Of cable-cars and helicopters: mobility regimes and the politics of visibility in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro 7. Rethinking verticality through top-down views in drone hobbyist photography 8. The spectacle of demonstration: visual representation of political imagination during the coronavirus crisis 9. States of Australia’s agri-environment: visual extractions from degraded landscapes