"Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in participatory video, but accounts have often been celebratory and uncritical. At the same time there has been an ever-increasing multiplicity of interpretations, thus making participatory video seem ‘nebulous’ and ‘perplexing’. This special section seeks to develop some of the critiques developed over the past five years, by bringing together a series of provocative thought pieces. Through this special section we seek to continue to develop a critique of participatory video as both a methodology and method." (p.401)
Contents
Critiquing participatory video: experiences from around the world / E-J Milne, 401
Critiquing the politics of participatory video and the dangerous romance of liberalism / Shannon Walsh, 405
Why are we doing it? Exploring participant motivations within a participatory video project [indigenous communities in the North Rupununi, Guyana and in Tumucumaque, Brazil] / Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Elisa Bignante, Andrea Berardi, 412
Emergent ethics in participatory video: negotiating the inherent tensions as group processes evolve [United Kongdom] / Jacqueline Shaw, 419
Problematising participatory video with youth in Canada: the intersection of therapeutic, deficit and individualising discourses / Matt Rogers, 427
Me and my cellphone: constructing change from the inside through cellphilms and participatory video in a rural community [South Africa] / Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange, Relebohile Moletsane, 435
Not so far away: a collaborative model of engaging refugee youth in the outreach of their digital stories [Canada] / Michele Luchs, Elizabeth Miller, 442
Participatory video's spectro-geographies / Sara Kindon, 449