Dr. Maria-Carolina Cambre
Associate Professor, Education
Email: | carolina.cambre@concordia.ca |
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Carolina Cambre Ethnography Labista GC-SARA VP Research for RC 57 Visual Sociology |
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“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that ... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it" (James Baldwin 1979) |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-0354-6899 |
Interview / Media
Getting to Know You: http://www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/files/wg03newsletter_december_2016.pdf.pdf
The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/che-guevara-the-face-that-launched-a-thousand-117804
IVSA Showcase Feature: https://visualsociology.org/?p=1296
Sociologist of the month: https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsci/cissc/2020/02/05/maria-carolina-cambre-named-sociologist-of-the-month-by-current-sociology.html
Dean's Awards Excellence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zMzppQbPec&disable_polymer=true
4th Space interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZYR1_a9f4&disable_polymer=true
Research Interests
Current & Recent Projects
My research program evolves under the rubrics of three broad but overlapping areas:
1. Polymedia literacies/Digital self-display
2. Community/pedagogy/policy &
3. Image theory/visual methodologies.
Photo credit: https://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/news/fleff-announces-winners-of-define-open-space-16829/
Teaching activities
Courses
ESTU615 Introduction to Research Methods
ESTU642 Special topics: Critical Policy Issues
ESTU644 Sociology of Education
ADIP549 Project Design
ESTU642 Special topics: Media, Pop Culture & Education
ESTU645 Curriculum Theory & Design
SDBI WSDB498 Feminist Economics
International
2016 IHMJ316 Introduction to Visual Methods (Doctoral Seminar)
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2018 Introduction to the Visual Essay (Doctoral Seminar)
Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires AR
2019 Introduction to the Visual Essay (Continuing Education Seminar)
Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa MX
Other courses
Advertising and Social Institutions
Investigating Everyday Life: Qualitative Research
Classical Social Theory
Contemporary Social Theory
Society on the small screen: Mobile Cultures
Introduction to Sociology
Mass Media and Society
Student Supervision
Kiley, A. (2023) Sexuality Curriculum in Quebec: Let’s Talk about Sex
Nazywalskyi, T. (2023) Love Shapes: Eros as a Teaching Posture in Quebec Secondary Schools
Li, X. (2023) University Student’s Experience of AbruptTransition during the Covid-19 pandemic
McKell, T. (2022) Reflections on Change: The Quebec Anglophone Experience & the Revised History CurriculumElimby, F. (2021) : Meditation for transformation: The quest for teachers’ wellbeing
Hoffmann-Kuhnt, B. (2021) : Women & Homelessness: Vectors of Invisibility (EL Award)
Figueroa, T. (2020) Engaging digital literacies through the lenses of the hearing impaired
Abdel Ghani, M. (2019) Children Vloggers on YouTube: Empowerment or Exploitation?
Qingru Zeng (2019) A Comparison of Literacies Discourses: WesternCountries and China
Ren, Andao (2019) Rethinking Educational Traditions in China from a Gender Perspective
Jarman, Megan (2019) Critical Discourse Analysis in Canadian Policy Education Research
Liu, Xiaoyi (2018) Using Cultural Identity and Intersectionality Theory to Understand Barriers to Integration of Female Chinese International Students in Montreal
Favvas, Christina (2018) Analyzing Quebec’s Policy on Educational Success
Kaiah Eaton (2018) Lead Co-supervisor (Philosophy) Understanding Fanonian Humanism Through National Struggles
Parsons, Victoria (2017) Inclusive education for students at-risk: The white spaces
Deveaux, E.: Updating media literacy curriculum: The heuristic possibilities of Internet Memes
Todorova, D.: TBD
Publications
Publications (selected)
Cambre,C. & Sicotte, G. (2022) “’Mangez-moi’:L’érotisation de la nourriture et des corps dans la foodporn” Special issue of Communication & Langages on #Foodporn
Lavrence, C. & Cambre, C. (2020) “’Do I look like my selfie?’ Filters & the digital forensic gaze.” Social Media & Society
Cambre, C. & Lavrence, C. (2019) “How else would you take a photo?” #SelfieAmbivalence. Cultural Sociology.
Cambre, C. (2019) “Introduction: Visual criminology and the social image/s of crime” in Special Subsection (SSS): Current Sociology
Traue, B., Blanc, M., & Cambre, C. (2019) “Introduction: Visibilities and visual discourses. Rethinking the social with the image” Special Issue of Qualitative Inquiry
Cambre, C. (2018) “50 Años de agencia oscilante y distribuida: El virtual de la imagen de Che Guevara.” Traducción Leila Srur* & Ana Inés Heras con permiso del Public Journal of Semiotics (Editor: Jordan Zlatev) In Revista Chilena de Semiótica
Cambre, C. (2016) “Algorithmic love: Quit playin’ games with my <3”in Networking Knowledge: Journal Of The MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 9(6), 8-25. Special Issue: “Together While Apart: Mediating Relationships and Intimacy.” Prieto-Blanco, P. & Schreiber, M., (Eds.)
VIDEO ABSTRACT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPxLdWNY5Dk
David, G. & Cambre C. (2016) “Screened Intimacies: Tinder and the Swipe Logic.” In Inter-faces and Me-diated bodies Special Issue of Social Media Society. Warfield, K., Cambre, C., and Abidin, C. (Eds)
Plews, J. L., Breckenridge, Y., Cambre, MC., & Fernandes, G. (2014). Mexican English teachers’ experiences of international professional development in Canada: A narrative sequel. e-FLT. (June) Vol. 11:1, 52-75
Artivists 4 life, Robinson, L., & Cambre, MC. (2013). Co-creatn w uth artivists in Uganda: Authors of our own becoming. in Late-modernity and Agency: Contemporary Youth Cultures in Africa Special edition of Postcolonial Text. 8:3-4, 1-21. Ugor, P. (Ed.).
Cambre MC. (2013). Immanence and collage heuristics. in Deleuze & Guattari special edition of Visual Arts Research. 39:1, Issue 76, 70-89. j. jagodzinski, J. Wallin, L. Hetrick (Eds.)
Cambre, MC. (2012). The efficacy of the virtual: From Che as sign to Che as agent. The Public Journal of Semiotics, 4(1), 83-107. P. Bouissac (Ed.)
BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER REVIEWED)
Cambre, C., E. Barromi-Perlman, & D. Herman Jr.(2022) “Introduction:The nomadology of visual pedagogies” in Cambre,C., E. Barromi-Perlman, & D. Herman Jr. (Eds) (2022) Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases & Practices (Brill | Sense Publishers, NL). Pp. 1-16
(2021)“Visual Sociology” Ch. 45 In Krešimir Purgar (Ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies. Palgrave MacMillan. Pp.735-757.
Jarman, M. &Cambre, C. & (2021) “EvaluatingCritical Discourse Analysis in research: A Canadian Educational Policy Case” In(J.Crossman (UniSA and ICMS) and S. Bordia (ANU) Eds.) Edward ElgarHandbook of Qualitative Research Methodologies in workplace contexts. EE Publishing,Australia.
Abdul Ghani, M. & Cambre, C. (2020) “Ethan’s GoldenYouTube Play Button: The evolution of a child influencer” In (Warfield K, Cambre C, &Abidin C Eds) Mediated Interfaces: The Body onSocial Media. Bloomsbury Publishing. London, UK.
Cambre, C. (2019).Neither Visible nor Hidden:The Structuring of the Sensible Ch. 7 in A. S. Grønstad & Ø Vågnes (Eds.), Invisibilities.Palgrave MacMillan (Springer International Press).
Cambre, C. (Dec. 2019) Crisis of Literacies: How does the Orchid cite the Bee? in Knowings & Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation. In Loveless, N. (Ed.) University of Alberta Press, AB Canada.
Cambre, C. & Lavrence, C. (2018) Encounters that open up problems: A critical path forpost-structuralist inquiry, Chapter 7 in Sociological Theory, Methods, and Perspectives. In Michalski, J. (Ed.) Nova Science Publishers, Inc:Hauppauge, NY. USA.
Cambre, C. & Arshad-Ayaz, A. (2017). Literacies future past: Inwardness as ethical information. In Samek, T. & Shultz, L. (Eds.) Information Ethics and Global Citizenship. McFarland Publishers, Jefferson NC, USA.Artivists 4 life, Robinson, L., Cambre, MC., (2015). Youth Artivism in Uganda: Co-creators of our own Becoming. In P. Ugor & L. Mawuko-Yevugah (Eds.), Markets, States and Generations: African Youth in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization 75-96 Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Surrey, UK
(2016, July. 22). A Quantum of Meaning: Parallelism and Transvisuality. At The Space and Culture Research Group at the City Region Studies Centre (CRST) University of Alberta. Edmonton, AB, Canada.
(2015, Mar. 18). The Body of Anonymous & witnessing multiplicity via Deleuze & Guattari Visual Media Workshop Lecture Series 2015. At Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) Surrey, BC, Canada. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUnbCnr0nN0
(2015, Mar. 14). Ausflüge in die Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten der aktuellen visuellen Methoden (Exploring the challenges and possibilities of current visual methods) At The Working Group on the Image at Universitat Potsdam, Brandenburg, DE
(2014, Sept. 16). Does Anonymous have a gender or species? Contemporary Issues in Communication at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).
(2014, Sept. 3). Polymedia literacies and the information society. Centre for Integrated Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Athabasca University, Edmonton, AB Canada.
(2014, April 24). Expériences en sociologie visuelle: Le visage du Che Guevara et l’ambiguïté sexuel. Invited lecture at the Laboratoire d'histoire visuelle contemporaine, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales INHA, 2, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, FR.
(2014, Mar. 22-26). Respondent paper at Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation a Think-Tank with Dr. Donna Haraway (sponsored by: Kule Institute for Advanced Studies, Killam Connection Grant, UAlberta Faculty of Arts, SSHRC, the Canada Research Chairs in Cultural Studies, Design Studies, and Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, Latitude 53 Gallery, Departments of Art and Design and Women & Gender Studies, University of Alberta.