Movie Making as Critical Pedagogy

Walker, Grady

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“…Eight community farmer champions based in Mukono were identified and trained in video storytelling and research. The use of video has an established track record in research and development as a participatory communication practice and method that can transcend entrenched barriers to inclusion of marginal voices and perspectives (Walker 2018). It achieves this while also delivering effective horizontal and vertical communication and brokering effective links that otherwise may not exist.…”

Section: Governance and Advocacy: Scaling Up Co-management And Social Learning Through Participatory Communications (Visual Methods Reseamentioning

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Supporting Climate-Resilient Planning at National and District Levels: A Pathway to Multi-stakeholder Decision-Making in Uganda

Cornforth

Petty

Walker

2021

Climate Risk in Africa

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If rural adaptation is to be effective, then it cannot take the form of prescriptive actions determined by outsiders and subsequently imposed upon rural communities. Our focus in this chapter is to reflect on the effectiveness of rural adaptation in the context of food security and agriculture in Uganda and provide insight into a way forward using learning from the HyCRISTAL project rural pilot. We critically explore the boundaries of ‘adaptation’ and ‘resilience’ as policy responses to climate change in poor rural communities through the interdisciplinary use of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including innovative visual methods and action research. We identify some of the limits to building adaptive communities and explore potential solutions for enabling informed decision-making for rural adaptation that are linked to investment in sustainable development. We highlight the importance of multi-stakeholder approaches and the generation of a ‘knowledge ecosystem’ that combines physical and social science methods and data to generate context-specific information to inform decision-making.

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Section: Governance and Advocacy: Scaling Up Co-management And Social Learning Through Participatory Communications (Visual Methods Reseamentioning

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Supporting Climate-Resilient Planning at National and District Levels: A Pathway to Multi-stakeholder Decision-Making in Uganda

Cornforth

Petty

Walker

2021

Climate Risk in Africa

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“…This contraction of the power of the facilitator proportionate to the expanded power of the participant was recognized by Freire (1970), who defined the facilitators as teacher-students and the participants as student-teachers. Other studies of the use of visual methods in participatory action-research have shown this dynamic to be a milestone on the path toward critical consciousness or Freire’s concept of conscientization 1 (Walker, 2018).…”

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“…As mentioned, the group’s transition from a discussion focused on a topical theme (“on-script”) to generative themes (“off-script”) helps offset the power imbalance faced by participants. Once they decide upon a generative theme and return with representations of it (in the form of photographs), only they are fully capable of describing how their image represents the theme (Walker, 2018). For example, in Andhra Pradesh, the NFFs are experts in ZBNF and are therefore in a position of power that enables them to accept or reject representations of ZBNF Innovations as inaccurate, mistaken, or misrepresented.…”

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Thematic Collages in Participatory Photography: A Process for Understanding the Adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India

Walker

Osbahr

Cardey

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This paper presents the use of thematic collages as a methodological innovation to participatory photography as a research framework. Participatory photography was used to understand the subjective “off-script” motivations behind the full or partial adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) by members of women’s self-help groups in Andhra Pradesh, India. The addition of thematic collages to existing participatory photography methods was developed as a mechanism to better support the dialogic generation of new Freirean “generative themes” for investigation by a group. Further, the use of thematic collages invites the integration of “renegade” or non-thematic images into participant group analysis. ZBNF is an agricultural practice that has become an extension priority in Andhra Pradesh. It emphasizes the use of defined chemical-free inputs and regenerative farming techniques as a holistic approach toward socio-ecological resilience. As part of an interdisciplinary research project, this participatory photography design was piloted parallel to a soil science experiment in three geographically distinct agroecological zones in Andhra Pradesh. We show how participatory photography, with the novel addition of thematic collages, can be integrated into interdisciplinary research as a method to discover the underlying motivations to adopt agricultural practices and participate in agricultural movements like Zero Budget Natural Farming.

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“…Firstly, the nature of the interaction itself will be analysed and then catalysts will be identified that spur the collaborators on through their creative path. Productions surveyed include recent Australian film and television productions Seven Types of Ambiguity (Ivin et al, 2016), Riot (Walker, 2018), The True History of the Kelly Gang (Kurzel, 2019), Relic (James, 2020) and Berlin Syndrome (Shortland, 2017). Findings from these productions demonstrate that the visual iteration of the screen idea is negotiated through a lively exchange of visual reference material and verbal discussion (Ivin, 2017).…”

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The liminal role of the screenplay: Pre-production, the screen idea and the visual concept

John

2021

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The screen idea is a scholarly term used to describe the collective idea for a narrative screen project that exists in the minds of the collaborators as their concept for the work is evolving. The term has mostly been related to the script development phase of a project to elucidate the liminal form and function of the screenplay during that period. The screen idea can also be related to subsequent phases of conventional commercial screen production, such as the intensive planning period known as pre-production. One of the central activities during pre-production is the process undertaken by key heads of department – director, production designer and director of photography (DOP) – in conceiving a visual style with which to tell the story. This group is sometimes referred to as the visual triumvirate. The visual concept developed by the triumvirate sets out a plan for how the formal qualities of the work, such as colour, contrast, camera movement and lens choice, will be used to drive and enhance the expression of the narrative. During this phase, the imagery inferred through the words of the script begins to find tangible form, thereby contributing to the evolution of the screen idea as it progresses beyond the script development phase. Through examples taken from creative practice in recent Australian film and television, alongside the author’s own industry experience, this article examines factors influencing the process of negotiation between the triumvirate as they develop a visual style for their screen projects.

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Movie Making as Critical Pedagogy

Cited by 7 publications

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Supporting Climate-Resilient Planning at National and District Levels: A Pathway to Multi-stakeholder Decision-Making in Uganda

Supporting Climate-Resilient Planning at National and District Levels: A Pathway to Multi-stakeholder Decision-Making in Uganda

Thematic Collages in Participatory Photography: A Process for Understanding the Adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India

The liminal role of the screenplay: Pre-production, the screen idea and the visual concept

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