Annette Becker

Using qualitative research design, Annette examines contemporary publications by Malagasy photographers and writers. These cultural artifacts of literary production produce, archive and transport explicit and implicit forms of social knowledge, creating a specific discursive space that connects local and global public spheres in the context of Madagascar’s socio-economic, cultural and media landscape. Thus, the methodological analysis and interpretation of this particular form of literary expression offers an opportunity to understand current discourses of the Malagasy public sphere itself and its global interconnections, as well as to reconstruct the concrete conditions of creation, production, and distribution of literature in Madagascar in an exemplary manner. The research methodology therefore combines ethnographic and interpretative methods of empirical, reconstructive social research in an iterative approach based on sociology of knowledge, practice theory and postcolonial theory.