Envisioning Photovoice as Decolonial Feminist Praxis

Cornell, Josephine; Mkhize, Linda; Kessi, Shose

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20001-5_5

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“…In relation to photovoice specifically, there is a growing chorus of scholars’ voices, including those in SSA, both sharing their work in implementing photovoice with an anticolonial approach and advocating for fellow photovoice researchers to adopt anticolonial frameworks (Castledon et al, 2008; Cornell et al, 2019; Fricas, 2022; Harley, 2012; Kessi, 2018). Fricas offers critical reflections and specific, practical recommendations for implementing each phase of photovoice.…”

Section: The Photovoice Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Photovoice has evolved for use globally, in diverse disciplines including health, education, community development, social sciences and beyond. The method has been used in Southern, Eastern and West African regions in countries including, but not limited to Ethiopia (Malherbe et al, 2016), Ghana (Kabore et al, 2019), Kenya (Mtuy et al, 2021), Malawi (Lofton et al, 2021), Mozambique (Powelson et al, 2022), Nigeria (Olumide et al, 2016), Rwanda (Umurungi et al, 2008), South Africa (Cornell et al, 2019; Kessi, 2018; Kessi et al, 2022), Tanzania (Johnson et al, 2019), Zambia (Harris, 2018 and Zimbabwe (Chidarikire et al, 2021). However, though over 3600 articles have been published on photovoice, the number of articles describing photovoice within the SSA context dwindles to below 300, roughly 8% of all articles published.…”

Section: The Photovoice Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, they are not always implemented in practice. Photovoice offers the space for participants and researchers to engage in important, critical reflections on the deep roots of colonisation and their ongoing role as determinants of inequities in SSA today (Cornell et al, 2019).…”

Section: Photovoice In Sub-saharan Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Use of Photovoice in sub-Saharan Africa: Illustrations and Reflections From Research in Uganda

McMorrow,

Musoke

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Photovoice is a qualitative, participatory research method with great potential for increased use across settings and disciplines in sub-Saharan Africa. The method originated over 30 years ago with two women researchers in reproductive health and has since been used across disciplines in diverse settings globally. Despite its origin within the social and cultural contexts of China in 1992, the method has been used predominantly in settings in the global North and West. There is ample opportunity to employ the method in sub-Saharan African contexts as a powerful, versatile research method. This paper highlights the current use of the photovoice research method in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Uganda. We aim to demystify photovoice and advocate for more use of the method as a participatory approach in tackling major current transdisciplinary challenges across the globe. We introduce the method, describe the historical and philosophical underpinnings, illustrate use of the method through two examples of our photovoice research in Uganda, and discuss its challenges and benefits.

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Section: The Photovoice Methodsmentioning

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Section: The Photovoice Methodsmentioning

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Use of Photovoice in sub-Saharan Africa: Illustrations and Reflections From Research in Uganda

McMorrow,

Musoke

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Feminist ethics of solidarity and collective care are paramount (Brabeck & Brabeck, 2014;Brydon-Miller, 2009). As a political methodology to challenge hierarchies of knowledge, FPAR embraces creative and participatory methods that foster inclusion and accessibility, such as arts-based methods, participatory rural appraisal, and PhotoVoice (Cornell et al, 2019;Godden, 2017a;Hayhurst, 2017).…”

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Feminist Evaluation Using Feminist Participatory Action Research: Guiding Principles and Practices

Crupi¹,

Godden

2023

American Journal of Evaluation

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There is a lack of instructional literature on how to conduct a feminist evaluation to highlight and transform systemic issues in gendered and intersecting power relations. Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) enables a process for conducting community-driven, -led and -owned feminist evaluations that drive social justice actions. By undertaking a critical review of existing literature, this article presents guiding principles and practices in how to conduct a feminist evaluation using FPAR. These principles and practices provide a framework for those who are seeking an evidence base for transformative social justice action in communities, particularly those who are working with complexity in systems-change interventions with multiple stakeholders.

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“…It is a process that enables empowerment, community organizing, activism, and action for social change (Bell, 2015). As an alternative to hegemonic knowledge and as decolonial feminist praxis, photovoice enables the creation of a new kind of knowledge, in a way that allows for reflexive observation by community members about social positions and the various forms of inequality and oppression which one seeks to be liberated from and oppose (e.g., Cornell et al, 2019). Finally, photovoice adopts the anchor of social art, which allows different people to express their voice through photography (Spence, 1995): documenting reality, interpreting it, and participating in negotiating different social interpretations of this reality (Wang and Burris, 1997).…”

Section: Photovoicementioning

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The Mentor’s Role From the Perspective of Marginalized Young Women Becoming Mentors: Photovoice-Based Research

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Eyal-Lubling

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This paper examines the perspective of marginalized young women, training to become mentors for marginalized girls, with respect to the role of the mentor. Taking a critical feminist perspective, this article gives expression to the research participants’ unique knowledge, based on life experience as marginalized girls and their lived experiences. Based on a photovoice research project with 13 participants, all marginalized young women, the findings of this paper identify three main narratives regarding the mentoring role: (1) Mentoring as a relationship; (2) Mentoring as an action for the future; and (3) Organizational belongness—the organization hosting the participants serving as an ideological, value-based, and professional home, enabling the growth of the mentor in her role. The conclusions of the article argue that marginalized young women experience mentoring as a practice that expands beyond its rational aspects, embodying within it a corrective experience of relationships and an opportunity for social change.

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Envisioning Photovoice as Decolonial Feminist Praxis

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Use of Photovoice in sub-Saharan Africa: Illustrations and Reflections From Research in Uganda

Use of Photovoice in sub-Saharan Africa: Illustrations and Reflections From Research in Uganda

Feminist Evaluation Using Feminist Participatory Action Research: Guiding Principles and Practices

The Mentor’s Role From the Perspective of Marginalized Young Women Becoming Mentors: Photovoice-Based Research

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