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Pathways to Accountability from the Margins: Reflections on Participatory Video Practice
Published by: IDS
Two of the central challenges in building accountability for marginalised people are how to reach and meaningfully involve the most excluded, and how to establish the kinds of relationships that mean they can achieve, influence and expect government responsiveness. This report explores asks how participatory video can be adapted and strengthened inclusively engage citizens and foster responses from decision-makers.
Where Does the Research Knowledge Lie in Participatory Visual Processes?
Over recent decades there has been a rapid expansion in the use of participatory visual methods to unearth neglected perspectives on complex issues. As example, participatory video can enable participants to show and tell, and connect marginalised communities with external audiences.
Innovative Methods for Research on Social and Political Action in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
Published by: IDS
Fragile and conflict-affected settings present particular challenges for researchers seeking to study the effect of social and political action (SPA). These challenges are not simply due to prevalent violence and conflict, but contexts of insecurity can restrict the flow of information, key actors can be hard to identify, and if information can be found, vital pieces of the picture may be missing.
‘Seeing’ Conflict at the Margins in Kenya and Madagascar
In a context of unprecedented investment in natural resource developments, this project bridges the social sciences, the humanities and community-based participatory research to ask how different ‘communities’ of actors ‘see’ and experience resource conflicts in Kenya and Madagascar. We use social science alongside a variety of participatory multimedia methods to open up conflict research to more diverse framings and voices, which can offer new insights on the drivers of resource conflict and pathways to peace.
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Jobs for the boys (and girls)?Connecting communication: using video to open spaces and mediate exchange between Kenyan grass-roots activists
Published by: IDS
Bunge La Mwananchi (BLM) is a Kenyan grass-roots social movement that creates space for unrepresented people from the poorest backgrounds to raise and debate issues, and to amplify their social struggles. In 2015, BLM members carried out action research to find out how the movement sustains its power against co-option and division.
Emergent Ethics in Participatory Video: Negotiating the Inherent Tension as Group Processes Evolve
Published by: Wiley
Community practitioner-researchers are enthusiastic about participatory video's potential in opening space for new relational dynamics to evolve across difference, yet in practice this involves much negotiation and often conflicting agendas. This paper reflects on the outcomes of research into the approach of Real Time, a UK-based participatory video project provider.
Building Sustainable Inclusion: From Intersecting Inequalities to Accountable Relationships
This project focuses on the need to consider and address intersecting inequalities – the spatial, economic and identity-based drivers of poverty and inequality - if the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are to be successful.
Building Sustainable Inclusion: From Intersecting Inequalities to Accountable Relationships
This project focuses on the need to consider and address intersecting inequalities – the spatial, economic and identity-based drivers of poverty and inequality - if the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are to be successful.