Louise Elstow Annotations

What does this visualization (including caption) say about toxics?

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 3:56pm

That toxic places are bodily experienced and that by removing the body from those places we become disjointed ourselves and don’t understand it. This removal can be part of a protection mechanism.

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Can you suggest ways to enrich this image to extend its ethnographic import?

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 3:56pm

I wonder if as a way of illustrating the point that you make - whether you could find a ceremony of a military chaplain?  As that would bring together the religious aspect, the intertis and the military.  

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What kind of image is this? Is it a found image or created by the ethnographer (or a combination)? What is notable about its composition | scale of attention | aesthetic?

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 3:56pm

This is a found image and it contrasts well with the other images in the essay - very different to the Van Gogh painting immediately beforehand and completely different to the other two images at the start of the essay.  I feel like I want to know more about the people in the picture - what is happening?  Did he have to wait three months between being upgraded (apologies if this is not the right term)?

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Can you suggest ways to elaborate the caption of this visualization to extend its ethnographic message?

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 3:54pm

Could you explain what the relevance of the image is beyond it being about a religious ordination?  How does this relate to toxic places and the military?  Who is the individual?  Why did you choose him rather than any other Roman Catholic holy man?

Could you explain what interstitial time involves in the clergy or in the military?   What are these people doing during the buffer period?

You mention toxicity here, but I am not sure I know what toxicity you are referring to specifically - I can guess for military personnel (and you allude to injuries) but it is not explicit. What is the toxic place being discussed?

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How does this visualization (including caption) advance ethnographic insight? What message | argument | sentiment | etc. does this visualization communicate or represent?

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 3:54pm

I really enjoyed the sentiment of the whole essay - that interesting things are happening in the in between places.  Thinking about interstis was particularly interesting, as a friend of mine has just done research on liminality in relation to military deployments and how it affects the individual and their families.  I think that this could be another angle to look at perhaps?

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