“…More generally, as Low, Brushwood Rose, Salvio and Palacios (2012, p. 50) suggest, when participatory media practices are adopted to address social justice issues, scholars often examine them using "celebratory and uncritical" narratives, which construct participatory video as a socio-political intervention strategy that is unquestionably empowering for marginalized groups. For the scholars above, and others like Walsh (2012Walsh ( , 2016, these dominant narratives tend to forestall critical analysis of participatory video approaches, projects, and products, and reduce the likelihood that practitioners and researchers will attend to how oppressive power relations operate on and through even the most self-reflexive participatory media project. Consequently, there is still a dearth of research that critically analyses the visual representations produced in these types of projects and the discursive patterns that organize youth participatory films (Kindon, 2003;Milne, Mitchell & de Lange, 2012).…”