This visualisation is particularly rich and includes contrasting images as well as an extensive caption that theorises but also brings in voices other than the author's. This is a powerful way of communicating the schisms occuring in Austin through contradictions between discourse and action on the part of the city, and the way this affects the residents that get excluded in the process.
The caption is extensive already, but I'd like to know who made the second visual (or did I overlook this?). I'd also like to know a bit more about Kenneth and Tane, who they are, how the researcher met them, what they do.
The image is a cominbation of a found image and a created image, but I am unclear as to who created the second image.
I don't think the image needs to be enriched. It was too small for me to make out the handcuffs and the 'whites only' sign, but enlarging this section would make it impossible to show both images side by side. Describing these things in the caption was very effective in getting around this.
This visualisation speaks to toxic discourses that can pose as 'progressive' but really conintue structural harms and injustices against particular parts of the population.
This found image advances insight into discourses of racial inequality; specificially, the discourse of City of Austin government regarding racial inequality in the context of the City's efforts to reduce racial inequality. The image is a loaded image: a familiar powerpoint presentation slide that indicates an offical awareness of an issue, and a project to address that issue.
The caption presents an extensive critique of the image. The ethnographer mobilises the caption effectively: not only does he give us information we might need to contextualise the image, but he presents another set of voices which allow us to critically examine the image.
This is a found image, which the ethnographer describes as a 'go to' slide from the City of Austin's repository of project slides. There are several notable things about this image: the first is the connotation of powerpoint slides, which imply an institutional knowledge of an issue; the second is the inclusion of stick figures and apple trees to communicate a complex issue 'simply', which implies an ability to understand an issue and to do something about it.
This visualisation implies a kind of discursive toxicity, where 'toxicity' is used metaphorically to indicate a dangerous or debilitating character. Its inclusion attempts to stretch understandings of 'toxic', and how the term can be used more broadly than it has been, to productively describe discourses and relationships.
