Magali Uhl

Magali Uhl is a full professor at the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a research member of CELAT (Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Sociétés). Her research aims to examine societal transformations through the prism of contemporary culture and art. Based on contemporary artworks and artistic practices, she elaborates issues related to subjectivation, memory, and the body by analysing their evolution and their effects on society and‚ more specifically‚ on the city and its experiential spaces. As the head of the “Visual Studies and Methods” group of the AISLF (GT02, Association internationale des sociologues de langue française), and as a member of CIREC (Centre de recherche-création sur les mondes sociaux), the role images play in understanding social and prospective approaches are at the centre of her research, which aims to enrich visual sociology by developing proposals that combine research and creation.

Since 2017, she has been conducting visual sociology work on post-industrial neighbourhoods in several Canadian cities including Montréal and Vancouver, the results of which have been published in the form of a book (2017) and as articles—most recently in Visual Studies (2021).