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Auteurship and Image‐Making: A (Gentle) Critique of the Photovoice Method
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This article critiques digital photovoice, a method deployed by social activists, developmentalists, and anthropological researchers. I argue that the uncritical use of photovoice methods (1) has allowed a reinvigoration of a positivist orientation toward image authenticity and (2) inadvertently supports hegemonic regimes of value. To revitalize photovoice as a method, I argue that practitioners must view their project as an aesthetic one, in which image‐makers are considered auteurs producing realities. I provide an example from my fieldwork in Adavisandra village near Bangalore, using one of my students’ photographs to consider how representations of her life change when we take her aesthetic‐auterial sensibility seriously.
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Photovoice can produce countervisual and counter-hegemonic knowledge.
“In calling for a critical re-engagement with photovoice, Arjun Shankar has argued for a consideration of the ways in which this methodology can produce countervisual and counter-hegemonic knowledge.”
From The Margin Speaks: On the Radical Possibilities of Embodied Knowledge as Decolonial Pedagogy (2022) · cites this paper as Shankar 2016
Photovoice is a methodology that centers community and places the camera in the hands of those historically excluded from and harmed by audiovisual modalities.
“As a methodology that centers community, photovoice places the camera in the hands of those historically excluded from and harmed by audiovisual modalities (Shankar 2016).”
From The Margin Speaks: On the Radical Possibilities of Embodied Knowledge as Decolonial Pedagogy (2022) · cites this paper as Shankar 2016
Scholars must not simply take student visuals as documentation, but as evidence of students' abilities to agentively construct their own embodied realities.
“He suggests that scholars must not simply take student visuals as documentation, but rather as evidence of students' abilities to agentively construct their own embodied realities.”
From The Margin Speaks: On the Radical Possibilities of Embodied Knowledge as Decolonial Pedagogy (2022) · cites this paper as Shankar 2016
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- Shankar, A.
- Venue
- Visual Anthropology Review
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-11
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 157-166
- ISSN
- 1058-7187
- 1548-7458
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- 31
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- Language
- en
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