A book! A comic! A hybrid-book-comic-essay thing!
You know how you sometimes only look at the pictures when you buy an academic book? Well here you are ENCOURAGED to! The main arguments are in the comics, the text offers references, methods & background.
Available from EPFLPress & soon internationally via Chicago University Press (pre-order available).

#academicwriting #geography #history #borders #comics #comicstudies #visualmethods #walking

One more step in the long story: unboxing the English-language book born out of this slow wander Along The Line!

#comics #comicstudies #visualmethods #geography #history #socialscience #academicwriting

I’m doing a panel with another author next week at a book festival, putting our two books side by side along the common thread of “borders” (my comic, his travel journal). I’ve had such fun drawing 6 panels trying to build thematic & visual bridges. Thinking through comics is so productive for opening up dialogues. (Ha! I hope this actually works in practice on a stage, however…)
#comics #visualMethods #comicsstudies #geography
From photo to comic, one line at a time. It's fun to return slowly to each page, now that the book is finished and soon heading off to press, out on 15th november 2024. I will soon share the cover design, currently being magic-ed up by the graphic designer based on some of my drawings.
#Bornées #borders #geography #visualMethods #comics #frontières #douane #Perly #Perly-Certoux
I don’t think I ever shared that we walked the border stretch near Cara 🇨🇭/ Carra 🇫🇷 a few weeks ago, did I? (Clearly this is news that the fediverse has been waiting for with baited breath😛!)
I love it when the 2 countries can’t even agree on spelling for place names: the near-abroad is made subtly more Other. Several great border stones and border infrastructure to keep me amused on these last steps of our epic & mundane slow walking adventure. #borderWalk #border #geography #visualMethods
The teaser flyer for the French version of my comic that was born of the visual ethnography of the 🇨🇭 🇫🇷 border is out, aimed at an audience of comic-lovers, and local history/geography/urban planning folks.
The English version of the same comic ("Along the Line") is interwoven into a "serious" social science academic book, looking at the theory (territory/borders/infrastructure), methods and ethics of the project.
#comics #geography #visualMethods #history #histoire #histoireSuisse #localhistory
Happy to be presenting my book & comic project tonight at the University of Cagliari, during an interdisciplinary seminar as part of my Visiting Professorship.
As I've been spending the past few days translating the 'comic' section of it into French from the original English, and will be presenting this in Italian, it really makes me think about how language shapes how we think and write about the world, beyond images. #geography #visualMethods #ethnography #history #comics #bandeDessinée
I'm delighted to be back in Cagliari as Visiting Professor to teach about graphic narrative, comics and creative methods, to 1st-year geography students, & to give a narrative methods class to students of architecture. Exploring the city on foot in the bright sunshine is a delight. An inspiring place, beautiful in its diversity, and with exceptionally welcoming colleagues.
#VisitingProfessor #Unica #academiclife #academicWriting #geography #visualmethods #academiclife
We joined up with the border & continued upstream, along the river Hermance. The border now runs down the middle of it here (here it was formerly along the talweg, i.e. following the deepest bit of the river bed). It is a picturesque and languid river meandering in a rural landscape punctuated by the usual border infrastructure: border stones, disused border guard buildings and rusting signs and fences. #borderWalk #geography #switzerland #visualMethods #visualEthnography #walking
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023) | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society