Evaluating the extent to which social researchers apply feminist and empowerment frameworks in photovoice studies with female participants: A literature review

Coemans, Sara; Raymakers, Anne-Leen; Vandenabeele, Joke; Hannes, Karin

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“…Although there have been several systematic reviews exploring photovoice and its impact on community health, to date, there have not been any systematic reviews that specifically address the role of intentional action planning and its impact on community-level outcomes (Catalani & Minkler, 2010;Christensen, 2017;Coemans et al, 2019;Dassah et al, 2017;Evans-Agnew & Rosemberg, 2016;Han & Oliffe, 2016;Hergenrather et al, 2009;Lal et al, 2012;Seitz & Strack, 2016;Sanon et al, 2014). For example, Catalani and Minkler (2010) found that 60% of photovoice projects included an action component, but the researchers did not examine how this process occurs or if it results in community-wide change.…”

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Outcomes and Intentionality of Action Planning in Photovoice: A Literature Review

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2020

Health Promotion Practice

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Participatory action research methods have been utilized to engage community members in community-driven health promotion projects addressing issues across various socioecological levels. Photovoice is one such participatory action research method that allows participants to use photography to document their experiences and dialogue to eventually influence change and reach policy makers. However, it is unclear how photovoice projects demonstrate intentional action planning and its impact on community-level outcomes. The purpose of this literature review is to understand (1) how action plans are developed, initialized and implemented in the community and (2) describe community-wide changes that occurred in photovoice projects with an action planning process. We searched scholarly databases for peer-reviewed articles that used photovoice with action planning and community-level outcomes. As a result, 19 articles were included in this review. Using the socioecological model to assess the literature, we found that action planning varied at different levels of influence. The intentionality of action planning was described through the use of specific action steps, as well as intentional dissemination to stakeholders, evaluation, and sustainability primarily at the community and organization levels. Our results suggest that the most successful photovoice projects were those that were intentional in action planning. We provide recommendations for photovoice researchers to better incorporate action planning into their methodology and make use of photovoice as an action research tool that can provide a clear, sustainable path toward community-wide changes.

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Outcomes and Intentionality of Action Planning in Photovoice: A Literature Review

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2020

Health Promotion Practice

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“…In an attempt to optimize procedures for upcoming projects, we scoped the literature to identify reviews on photovoice methodology to learn from the practice of others. We screened primary studies included in four reviews (Catalani & Minkler, 2010;Coemans et al, 2017;Evans-Agnew & Rosemberg, 2016;Hergenrather et al, 2009). What we learned from extracting and analyzing these data is as follows.…”

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“…First, we noticed that there was a tendency to downplay the role of photos in the way photovoice trajectories were conducted and reported on. Their role was often limited to either assisting participants in verbalizing their experiences or supporting a particular narrative story line evolving from the data (Coemans et al, 2017;Pain, 2012). Researchers also tended to use textual data from the interview transcripts or group discussions as their main source for analysis and interpretation (Catalani & Minkler, 2010).…”

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“…In addition, attention should be paid to how dissemination is organized, how photos and texts (i.e., titles and narratives) are displayedwhether they are prints or in a digital form displayed on a screen, and how the medium influences the way photos and texts are disseminated and interpreted. Based on the reviews of photovoice studies (Coemans et al, 2017;Evans-Agnew & Rosemberg, 2016;Hergenrather et al, 2009), exhibition is the most common medium chosen for dissemination. However, this medium is constrained by its physical location, and therefore, it is often confined to the local communities.…”

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Toward a More Comprehensive Type of Analysis in Photovoice Research: The Development and Illustration of Supportive Question Matrices for Research Teams

Wang

Hannes

2020

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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In this article, we present a comprehensive approach to analysis to assist researchers in conducting and analyzing photovoice studies. A screening of primary studies in four systematic reviews focusing on photovoice research revealed that the focus of analysis of researchers is the narrative provided with the photos from the participants, which undermines the potential of the photos themselves to provide meaning. In addition, the analytical effort of photovoice researchers is often limited to the interpretive phase in their projects. The question matrices we developed facilitate photovoice researchers who aim to give more weight to photos as an interpretive medium and wish to extend their analytical lens to different phases of a research cycle. They focus our analytical attention on three different sites—site of production, site of photo, and site of audiencing, and three different modalities—technological modality, compositional modality, and social modality. The matrices are designed to present an overview of the important dimensions that researchers might need to take into account when conducting photovoice research studies. We provide relevant examples to illustrate the potential risks and benefits of the analytical choices we make. Photovoice researchers should increase their awareness of the impact of our choices on the analytical process and avoid the analytical strategies that may disempower participants and reproduce existing power relationships.

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“…It was meant to provide an overview of how ABR methods were defined and applied in community-based research practice. We noticed considerable ambiguity in how the ABR movement was defined and an absence of a shared vocabulary (Coemans, Raymakers, Vandenabeele, & Hannes, 2017). We used the set of studies included in the database from the review as a starting point to develop a framework that could potentially address the need for understanding some of the boundaries of what ABR is, and what it is not.…”

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Arts-based Methods in Socially Engaged Research Practice: A Classification Framework

Wang

Coemans

Siegesmund

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Art/Research International

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Qingchun Wang is a PhD student affiliated to the Faculty of Social Sciences (social research methodology group) of KU Leuven. Her research interest is in the development of qualitative research methods, mainly in the area of visual research methods. She currently plugs her methodological experiments into a series of studies on acculturation processes of international students.Sara Coemans is a PhD student affiliated to the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (laboratory for education and society) of KU Leuven. She explores the potential of arts-based and multi-sensory methods for community-based research projects. Her focus is on the relationship between people and their environment. Arts-based Methods in Socially Engaged Research Practice 5

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Evaluating the extent to which social researchers apply feminist and empowerment frameworks in photovoice studies with female participants: A literature review

Cited by 46 publications

References 43 publications

Outcomes and Intentionality of Action Planning in Photovoice: A Literature Review

Outcomes and Intentionality of Action Planning in Photovoice: A Literature Review

Toward a More Comprehensive Type of Analysis in Photovoice Research: The Development and Illustration of Supportive Question Matrices for Research Teams

Arts-based Methods in Socially Engaged Research Practice: A Classification Framework

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