Douglas A. Harper (born 1948) is an American sociologist and photographer.[1] He is the holder of the Rev. Joseph A. Lauritis, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Teaching with Technology at Duquesne University, a chair funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.[2]
After graduation, Harper wrote a book, Good Company,[4] about railroad tramps.
Harper made extensive use of photo elicitation interviews in his 1987 book, Working Knowledge, a sociological treatment of the rural bricoleur in America.[5] His 2001 publication, Changing Works, applied the same method to the historical reconstruction of cultural memory.
Harper later co-authored books on post-colonial culture in Hong Kong, Italian food culture, and the semiotics of Italian fascism, in which he researched images as method of cross-cultural communication. In 2014, he studied the sociology of public space in the Italian piazza and in the de-industrialized regions of the American Rust Belt.
He has had many photographic exhibitions in the US and abroad.[citation needed]
Booksedit
2014: I Simboli del fascismo nella Roma del XXI secolo, cronache di un' oblio. Douglas Harper, Francesco Mattioli. Aciraele-Roma: Bonnano. ("The symbols of fascism: Reports of an oblivion"). In Press.[when?]
2012: Visual Sociology. Douglas Harper. London: Routledge.[7]
2009: The Italian Way: Food and Social Life. Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2009: Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys. Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2006: Good Company: A Tramp Life. Boulder: Paradigm. Douglas Harper. (Revised and expanded third edition).[8]
2003: The Cultural Study of Work. Douglas Harper and Helen Lawson, editors. Boulder: Rowman Littlefield. 2004 Outstanding Title, designation by the American Library Association.
2001: Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture. Douglas Harper. University of Chicago Press. Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association and Collier Award, Society for Visual Anthropology.
1998: Mondi Da Vedere: Verso una sociologia piu visuale. Patrizia Faccioli and Douglas Harper, editors. Milan: FrancoAngeli.
1993: Eyes Across the Water, vol. II: Essays on Visual Sociology and Anthropology. Robert Boonzajer Flaes and Douglas Harper, editors. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis Press.
1987: Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop. Douglas Harper. University of Chicago Press. Paperback edition, University of California Press, 1992.[10]
1982: Good Company. Douglas Harper. University of Chicago Press. Second edition translations: Good Company: Un sociologo tra I vagabondi. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 1999 in Italian; Les Vagabonds du Nord-Ouest Américain. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998 in French.
Filmsedit
2013: The First Step to Recovery. (a 60-minute documentary film, in process.) Douglas Harper and Margaret Patterson, co-directors.
1983: Ernie's Sawmill. Douglas Harper and Stephen Papson, co-directors. A 16 mm, 20-minute ethnographic film.
Referencesedit
^Mary Strong; Laena Wilder (May 1, 2009). Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work. University of Texas Press. pp. 38–. ISBN 978-0-292-70671-2.
^"Rev. Joseph A. Lauritis, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Teaching with Technology | Make a Gift | Duquesne University". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
^Becker, Howard S. (November 1, 2007). Telling About Society. University of Chicago Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-226-04126-1.
^Kornblum, William (January 31, 2011). Sociology in a Changing World. Cengage Learning. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-111-30157-6.
^Kolb, Bettina (January 31, 2012). "Unveiling Space by Using Participatory Photo Interview". In Silva, Carlos Nunes (ed.). Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies: Design and Outcomes. IGI Global. pp. 120–137. ISBN 978-1-4666-0075-1.
^"Doug Harper: IVSA President". International Visual Studies Association. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
^Harper, Douglas (2012). Book Review : Douglas Harper, Visual Sociology. New York: Routledge, 2012, 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-77896-1. Retrieved November 25, 2016 – via Ejournals.library.ualberta.ca.
^"Good Company. Douglas Harper (Book)". Connection.ebscohost.com. January 3, 1982. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
^"Photographic image of cover of Cape Breton 1952 : The Photographic Vision of Timothy Asch". Ethnographicspress.com. Archived from the original (JPG) on November 14, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
^"Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop by Douglas Harper" Peter F. Murphy The Oral History Review Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 157–159, Oxford University Press