Transformative Storywork: Creative Pathways for Social Change

Wheeler, Joanna; Shahrokh, Thea; Derakhshani, Nava

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7035-8_54-1

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“…The second, describes the use of participatory video and narrative construction methodologies to explore issues of gender and urban precarity, with predominately Dalit 'Citymakers' in India -street-or slum-dwellers, or people driven from the urban spaces they have occupied for generations by slum clearance. In both cases, we used visual and creative methods, including participatory video (Shaw 2015(Shaw , 2017 and transformative story work (Wheeler et al 2018). These processes, taking place in contested contexts of power imbalances and unaccountable or inadequate governance, required navigating tensions between interests.…”

Section: The Practice Of Inclusion: Intersectional Approachesmentioning

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Politics and practices of inclusion: intersectional participatory action research

Wheeler¹,

Shaw²,

Howard³

2020

Community Development Journal

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A politics of exclusion is gaining ground in the global North and South, actively excluding and delegitimizing certain groups. At the same time, in global policy discourse, such as the sustainable development goals, there is an increasing focus on inclusion of the most marginalized and a reduction of inequalities. This article explores the politics and practice of inclusion through grounded examples of intersectional participatory action research (PAR). It uses examples from South Africa and India to consider the added value of taking an intersectional approach to PAR. We trace how intersectionality in practice draws attention to hidden knowledge and experience, challenges discriminatory labels, and requires careful navigation between individual and group processes. We analyse the potential for PAR processes to enable groups to surface and acknowledge inequalities across difference. We propose that, through creative processes and iterative dialogue and reflection, exclusionary attitudes and discourses which undermine people’s agency can be challenged, and alternative, inclusive narratives may be constructed. Finally, we argue that this process is relevant to wider political debates.

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Section: The Practice Of Inclusion: Intersectional Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Politics and practices of inclusion: intersectional participatory action research

Wheeler¹,

Shaw²,

Howard³

2020

Community Development Journal

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“…Each of the four participatory research processes started at the personal level through sharing stories of lived experiences using creative and reflective techniques. From here, young people moved into cycles of personal, collective and relational learning through different creative modes (Wheeler et al 2018). Depending on the participant group, young people's stories were developed as films, songs, poetry, theatre, visual storybooks, and body maps.…”

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Finding �belonging� in the caring relationships of young people with migration experiences in South Africa

Shahrohk

2022

JBA

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Young people with migration experiences in South Africa are navigating the everyday realities of a socially divided context, within which xenophobia is often marked. Countering narratives of individualisation and criminalisation of young migrants, this article explores caring relationships as a response to precarity. Drawing from participatory arts and story-based research with young people with migration experiences aged 14�25, this article explores the landscapes of care they are establishing with peers and siblings. It argues that young people are expressing and enacting care, for, with and about, others to build belonging and drive social change. This is an underexplored area and provides important insight into the meaning of everyday care and caring relationships as driven by young people themselves.

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“…But, despite all of these real concerns and qualifications, PV can be a community empowerment tool for social change. (Kindon, 2016 ; Mistry et al, 2016 ; Wheeler, 2011 ; Wheeler et al, 2020 ).…”

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Refugees re-making community: on the performativity of participatory video

Özgür

2022

GeoJournal

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This paper illustrates the performative nature of participatory video (PV), drawing on JL Austin’s well-known work on speech acts, utterances, and performative sentences, as well as Butler’s reworking and application of the notion of performativity. During recent research I used PV as a method. Sub-Saharan African refugee research participants who had not known each other before the PV project negotiated issues to be filmed and made a short film together, creating a small community where none existed before, who are taking steps to organize collective action. The emergence of this new community in and through the making of the film during the fieldwork illustrates the performativity of PV, what is accomplished in and through its making. This performativity works not only through people who take part in creating a video, distributing the video, and watching the video, but also may have effects on people who have never seen the given video, as they are in a landscape and embedded in social relations affected by people who took part in it or saw it. PV is thus both a way of gathering data to learn about the world, and it also is involved in changing it, bringing forth new relationships and new ways of being.

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Transformative Storywork: Creative Pathways for Social Change

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Politics and practices of inclusion: intersectional participatory action research

Politics and practices of inclusion: intersectional participatory action research

Finding �belonging� in the caring relationships of young people with migration experiences in South Africa

Refugees re-making community: on the performativity of participatory video

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