NEW PUBLICATION: TREMBLAY & HARRIS: CRITICAL VIDEO ENGAGEMENTS: EMPATHY, SUBJECTIVITY AND CHANGING NARRATIVES OF WATER RESOURCES THROUGH PARTICIPATORY VIDEO (FREE UNTIL APR 22)

Crystal Tremblay and Leila Harris have published an article in Geoforum, titled “Critical video engagements: Empathy, subjectivity and changing narratives.”

Abstract: This article engages a critical feminist analysis of a community-based participatory video (PV) process focused on water and sanitation issues in underserved settlements of Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa. With focus on emotions and empathy, we highlight these concepts in relation to participant narratives and shifting subjectivities. In so doing, we consider how arts based engagement (in this case, through participatory video), might serve to foster new ways of relating to water resources and water infrastructures. The analysis highlights how the participants themselves reflect on PV as a vehicle for personal transformation, knowledge co-creation and a shifting sense of their own ‘watered’ subjectivity. We find that the PV process helps to uncover and identify knowledge and process gaps on by enabling individuals and communities—often unheard—to participate in civic and political debates around resource governance. While many positive elements were emphasized, we also suggest that there is a need for critical engagements that also address challenges associated with these methods,including limitations with respect to fostering fundamental long-term change in communities. In the conclusion, we broaden beyond our individual case studies to consider implications for community engagement and citizenship practices in the realm of natural resource governance.

To read full article, click the link below:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718518300484

The article is free until April 22, 2018.

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