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Framing Futurities in Photovoice, Health, and Environment

How Power Is Reproduced and Challenged in Arts-Based Methods

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ID13100799
AuthorsMay Farrales (0009-0004-0513-9594, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author), Dawn Hoogeveen (0000-0002-6475-9986, Simon Fraser University), O S Morgan (0000-0002-1947-1991, University of British Columbia), De Leeuw (0000-0003-3837-9784, University of British Columbia), Sarah De Leeuw, Margot W Parkes (0000-0003-1967-2977, University of Northern British Columbia), Margot Parkes
Year2022
Volume8
Issue2
Pages415-434
Publication date2022-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2022.2080095
OpenAlexW4293370685
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited22

Anchored in critical analysis of a photovoice project, this article interrogates intersections between (1) health as it is tethered to ideas about the “future” and (2) worries about “the environment.” The ways the concepts of future, health and environment are dealt with by project participants suggest that arts-based research methods may be at risk of being seen as non-political spaces safe for people with privilege to envision some peoples as having more rights than others to a healthy future. The article begins by exploring how arts-based approaches, and photovoice in particular, can result in positive generative conversations between differently positioned research collaborators. Then, guided by critical anti-racist, queer, and Indigenous scholarship on futurities and ecologies, we move on to suggest that arts-based methods might rightly be critiqued for appearing as naïve methods, susceptible to reinscribing dominant paradigms of power and privilege. This tension has implications for geohumanities, explored in the concluding sections of the article. Ultimately, we argue that working with arts-based methods across sectors must acknowledge and account for gradations of power. Gradations of power are, after all, always informing who is afforded and allowed a healthy future when what is broadly referred to as “the environment” is at stake

Aesthetics · Framing (construction · Photovoice · Political science · Power (physics · Privilege (computing · Public relations · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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