Negotiating access, ethics and agendas: Using participatory photography with women anti-mining activists in Peru

Jenkins, Katy; Boudewijn, Inge A. M.

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102407

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“…It is important to us as a team to recognise both the collective knowledge of Afrodescendent women and their ownership over this knowledge. This is why we have given participants the choice of whether or not they want to remain anonymous in relation to their contributions to the research, a practice that is growing in human geography research as recognition of our participants' agency (see, for example, Mukungu, 2017;Gordon, 2019;Jenkins and Boudewijn, 2020). All but one participant decided to be named in relation to their participation, and, of course, we honour their requests here.…”

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Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas

Zaragocin,

Bone,

Boudewijn

et al. 2024

Global Discourse

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This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country. This results in tensions between governmental and autonomous feminist perspectives that are present in local spaces, such as the province of Esmeraldas in Northern Ecuador. Drawing on research conducted with Afro-Ecuadorian peer researchers, including interviews, oral histories and social-cartography methods, this article will demonstrate how Afro-Ecuadorian women are challenging dominant ideas and practices of development from the emerging ideas of Black feminism in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas.

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Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas

Zaragocin,

Bone,

Boudewijn

et al. 2024

Global Discourse

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“…Visual methods enable participants to reflect on their images and discuss aspects that could be difficult to access or explain without the aid of photography. The use of visual data added nuance to the data and created knowledge that could not otherwise be explored with verbal data only ( Jenkins and Boudewijn, 2020 ). In our project, we based the first session activity on the photovoice methodology proposed by Wang and Burris (1997) and photo-elicitation proposed by Harper (2002) .…”

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Gender and social class inequalities in higher education: intersectional reflections on a workshop experience

Fernandez,

Orazzo,

Fry

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Front. Psychol.

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Research about the experiences of underrepresented groups in higher education (HE) demonstrates the persistence of challenges, despite policies and institutional strategies to promote inclusion. Diversity and inclusion policies have been part of the HE agenda for several decades, yet most policies and interventions focus on (a) a given, isolated identity experience (e.g., based solely on gender, social class, or ethnicity) rather than more intersectional approaches to identity; and (b) top-down interventions that do not include participants insights in their design. In this paper, we report a case study of a workshop with students at an elite university that drew on an intersectional approach to social identities (IASI), specifically, looking at gender and social class. We explore three key themes: (a) the importance of group processes, (b) the use of visual techniques, and (c) the institutional tensions and the (de)politicisation of social psychology research. Reflecting on this case study we argue that approaches to identity and inclusion in HE can benefit from intersectionality beyond the use of multi and overlapping identity and social group categories. We argue that research in this space is not neutral and needs to acknowledge researchers’ position about (a) inclusion and diversity, (b) perceptions of participants in research, and (c) the motivation and aims of institutions where the research is conducted. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of integrating an intersectional approach within social identity research in HE when focusing on underrepresented groups.

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“…Whilst there is an element of ‘rose-tinted glasses’ to these depictions of bountiful rural idylls (Jenkins and Boudewijn, 2020), I argue that they can be understood as hopeful depictions of alternative development trajectories that are already in existence, counteracting uni-dimensional narratives around large-scale resource extraction, and refusing to be bound by oppositional narratives that focus on the negatives of mining, instead making visible and finding joy in multiple development trajectories and ‘the diversity of social, political and economic realities’ (McKinnon, 2016) already existing in the present. Such an approach also reflects Poole’s (1997) recognition of the role of pleasure in photography: ‘we frequently forget that images are also about the pleasures of looking.…”

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“…2.See Jenkins and Boudewijn (2020) for a detailed discussion of the methodology and ethical considerations. Oral consent was gained from all participants, some of whom chose to be identified by their own names (full names in interview quotes and photo credits), with others choosing to use pseudonyms (first name only in interview quotes and photo credits).…”

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Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development

Jenkins

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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This paper critically explores how women anti-mining activists conceptualize development, in the context of living with and resisting large-scale resource extraction in Cajamarca, Peru. I contend that participatory photography provides an opportunity to contest hegemonic development narratives and the notions of ‘lack’, ‘poverty’ and ‘progress’ that are bound up with such narratives, enabling participants to simultaneously evoke both hoped-for alternative futures and nostalgic renditions of a threatened present. Moving beyond an explicit and immediate focus on the socially and environmentally destructive nature of large-scale mining, I explore how the women instead document productive Andean livelihoods and everyday ways of life, capturing the ways in which hoped-for futures are enacted in the present. The women activists articulate their resistance through photography, identifying and celebrating practices of hope in their everyday lives and communities and providing an emotive counter-narrative to extractive-led neoliberal development discourses. The paper reveals that participatory photography approaches generate critical insight into the emotion-suffused ways in which development is understood by grassroots activists in contexts of extractivism.

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Negotiating access, ethics and agendas: Using participatory photography with women anti-mining activists in Peru

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas

Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas

Gender and social class inequalities in higher education: intersectional reflections on a workshop experience

Between Hope and Loss: Peruvian Women Activists’ Visual Contestations of Extractive-led Development

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