Community video

Power and process

Bibliographic Data

ID12423451
AuthorsCostas Criticos (University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author), Tim Quinlan
Year1991
Volume6
Issue2
Pages39-52
Publication date1991-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-1684 • E-ISSN: 2331-3811
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14725869108583690
OpenAlexW2053820047
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited3

Costas Criticos and Tim Quinlan are South African ethnographic filmmakers who use community video method in their work, In this paper they report on their most recent work which documents the life of Indian Fishermen in Durban, South Africa, and the life of herders in the alpine regions of Lesotho. They explore the attraction of community video to the academic which offers the potential of a powerful means of political, cultural and philosophical expression and hence, a valuable research instrument. They are attracted to this method, which emphasizes attention to process and power in terms of demanding recognition that knowledge is constructed in ways which reflect the relationship between researcher and research subject. Costas judges his project in terms of its emancipatory potential, while Tim identifies practical problems in his work as different facets of what may be called the politics of community video

Academic community · Ethnography · Library science · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Process (computing · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Work (physics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Engineering · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · South African History and Culture

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