Critiquing the politics of participatory video and the dangerous romance of liberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8360303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shannon Walsh (0000-0001-5089-8056, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 405-411 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Area (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/area.12104 |
| OpenAlex | W2135022338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 8 |
In this article I argue that participatory video must acknowledge its often technocratic, liberal presumptions, and take a more critical look at the political underpinnings of ‘empowerment’ and ‘voice’. I am interested in how we can use participatory video while resisting the romance of community, seeing beyond short‐term individualist approaches towards a longer‐term collective project of social justice. A reflexive approach to how power and agency work within participatory video is essential if the method is going to effect change and not merely manage social conflict. While the participatory video process can be discussed from many perspectives, I focus here on a critique of the often‐hidden politics of participatory video, its relation to academic research and in turn, to project participants within a progressive social change agenda
Agency (philosophy) · Citizen journalism · Participatory GIS · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reflexivity · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Technocracy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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A Creative Storytelling Project with Women Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa (Dispatch)
Participatory Filmmaking Pedagogies in Schools
Autonomía y sostenibilidad en prácticas de vídeo participativo con comunidades indígenas. El caso de La Marabunta Filmadora
The Seductive Nature of Participatory Research
The “All-Seeing Community”
La sostenibilidad del vídeo participativo como práctica comunitaria. El caso de InsightShare
Human Rights at the Intersections
Local heroes
Ethical witnessing
Toward ‘more participatory' participatory video
What is ‘antimicrobial resistance’ and why should anyone make films about it? Using ‘participatory video’ to advocate for community-led change in public health
Digital Political Literacy? How Three Community-Based Organisations in Inner-City Johannesburg Miss the Mark on Social Media
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Health geography and the 'performative' turn
A Chronology of Seeing
Participatory Video and Impact
Participatory video proposals
Refugees re-making community
Moving pictures
Using photovoice to enhance young women’s participation in addressing gender-based violence in higher education
Making the city through participatory video
Film as Method in the Geohumanities
Quilted cellphilm method
Analysing participatory video through the capability approach – A case study in Quart de Poblet (Valencia, Spain)
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Unveiling relational values in agroecosystems through participatory video in a tropical agroforest frontier
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Rethinking participatory video in the times of YouTube
Co‐producing impact‐in‐process with participatory audio‐visual research
Participatory video's spectro‐geographies
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Emergent ethics in participatory video
Participatory video as a feminist practice of looking
Farmers as experts
Advancing Radical Food Geographies Praxis through Participatory Film
The Camera Rolls, Everyone, Shhh
I'm New to This
A Failed Attempt at Participatory Video With Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ People Who Had Experienced Homelessness
Challenging Crimmigration Racialising Politics Through Co-creative Filmmaking with Migrant Sex Workers
Citizens' photography
Dreaming a Narrative and Conjuring an Image
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |