Photovoice
A Promising Method for Capturing and Responding to Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C M Bagge-Petersen (0000-0001-9373-4545, corresponding author), Emmanuel Raju (0000-0002-2348-1850), Said Nuhu (0000-0002-0845-2154, Ardhi University), Tatu Mtwangi Limbumba (0000-0002-3967-063X, Ardhi University), Catherine A Masao (0000-0002-1242-9117, University of Dar es Salaam), Morten Skovdal (0000-0002-2068-1814) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.70009 |
| OpenAlex | W4410092303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 58 |
Photovoice is a popular participatory research method for instigating critical reflection and social change. It does, however, rely on participants being able to photographically capture the phenomenon under study. This raises challenging questions that may obstruct the use of Photovoice in climate change studies. Is climate change visible? Can it be photographically captured? What change can Photovoice instigate in the context of global climate change? To gain clarity on the role of Photovoice in climate change studies, this article provides an overview of previously published work. We do this to identify some of the different ways in which Photovoice can usefully capture various aspects of climate change and to critically appraise the studies' ability to fully leverage Photovoice's change potentials. We identify five ways in which Photovoice is used to study climate change. This includes studying (i) how local people understand climate change, (ii) how people experience the (perceived) impacts of climate change, (iii) community perspectives on their vulnerabilities to climate change, (iv) local adaptation and mitigation responses, and finally, (v) ways of facilitating transformative learning about climate change. While many studies effectively capture people's intersubjective relationships with climate change, the action‐oriented social change potential of Photovoice is rarely realized. Future Photovoice projects must consider the theoretical underpinnings of the method and be intentional about its emancipatory and change potential, particularly by collaborating with powerful change agents, thereby increasing the likelihood that Photovoice findings will translate into policy changes and community initiatives
Biology · Climate change · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Photovoice · Children's Rights and Participation · Environmental Science · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Seeing Heat Through Everyday Life
Young people’s perceptions of climate change in Africa
Photovoice Methods Informing Participatory Action Research Involving Older Adults in Canada
Harnessing women's traditional ecological knowledge through photovoice to address shea tree caterpillar (Cirina butyrospermi) infestation in semi-arid Ghana
“We Have Seen It with Our Own Eyes”
Does belief matter in climate change action
Photovoice as a Participatory Health Promotion Strategy
Photovoice
Community Perspectives on the Impact of Climate Change on Health in Nunavut, Canada
Climate-sensitive health priorities in Nunatsiavut, Canada
A review of photovoice applications in environment, sustainability, and conservation contexts
Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice
Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations
Finding shared meaning in the Anthropocene
Climate change and visual imagery
What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth
Stressed, anxious, and sick from the floods
Children’s constructive climate change engagement
Less able’
On matryoshkas and meaning-making
Visualizing Vulnerability for Inclusive Community Resilience
Unseen potential
A photovoice assessment for illuminating the role of inland fisheries to livelihoods and the local challenges experienced through the lens of fishers in a climate-driven lake of Malawi
Reshaping our world
Young carers as social actors
Vulnerability of indigenous health to climate change
Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards
Photovoice, emergency management and climate change
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |