Use of Photovoice to Highlight Environmental Justice Issues: The Power of Photography in Buzzard Point, Washington, DC

AberAaron,; WaxmanNikki,; KhatibAnam,; BamfoAshley,; Simon-OganDerefaka,; WilsonSacoby,

doi:10.1089/env.2016.0042

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“…Further illustrations of Photovoice's utility to environmental issues include Crabtree and Braun (2015) work with a rural Hawaiian community to develop a tsunami preparedness plan for natural environmental disasters. Similarly, Berbés-Blázquez (2012) used Photovoice to measure the relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being, while residents of Buzzard Point, Washington, D.C., used Photovoice to identify environmental pollution and health hazards in their community (Aber et al 2017).…”

Section: Global Photovoice Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice

2020

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Global environmental changes can happen quickly or over extended periods and have compounding effects. Indigenous communities experience environmental changes that can lead to a decline in quality of life, illness or disease, and unwelcome cultural adaptations that extend to future generations. Due to limited resources and political marginalization, members of these communities may not be able to respond to or prevent these conditions. Cultural connections to the land and community, along with limited resources, impact Indigenous peoples’ willingness and ability to relocate to different geographic locations experiencing less damaging ecological changes or environmental risk. In this article, we respond to the Special Issue prompt probing “[m]ethods in which Indigenous communities engage within their environment and on the land to conduct research”. We begin by describing environmental change, followed by a scoping review of Photovoice studies focused on environmental issues. Environmental changes affecting Indigenous groups are discussed, including a case study and a discussion of the ways that Photovoice can support and honor Indigenous peoples’ connection to the natural environment. This article is not intended to be an exhaustive review, but rather seeks to understand how Photovoice is being used to respond to and document environmental change, and how such visual methodologies can be used in Indigenous communities.

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Section: Global Photovoice Literaturementioning

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Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice

2020

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“…Photovoice is a qualitative community-based participatory research method to document and reflect an individuals' experience within a community (Wang et al 1997). Two co-authors brought their expertise using the Photovoice methodology to this project from other environmental justice projects (Aber et al 2017;Brandt et al 2017;Chanse et al 2017). Outcomes of the Photovoice research effort are discussed elsewhere (Biehler et al in prep).…”

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Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

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Citizen Science: Theory and Practice

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Citizen science (CS) has been an increasingly utilized means by which scientists leverage members of the public to increase the amount of data collected and analyzed. However, the underrepresentation of individuals from certain socio-cultural groups can have consequences that can manifest in the scientific outcomes of those CS projects such as biases in the data. Additionally, this underrepresentation can potentially affect long-term viability and support of CS as a community of practice. CS programs that promote greater inclusivity would likely provide opportunities for communities to define, investigate, and address pressing issues in collaboration with professional scientists. In this paper we discuss a CS project that sought to include underrepresented communities in Baltimore, Maryland using Pandya's framework for inclusive CS. While the project met all of its scientific research goals, translating the CS for broader social outcomes in the community proved challenging. Here we highlight perspectives from local community members and research personnel about the barriers to CS engagement, challenges in translating scientific outcomes to social justice efforts, and opportunities to address these barriers in CS program development and design.

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“…For example, one study in Pittsburgh’s East End, conducted between local organizations and university researchers, employed teams of neighborhood residents to stimulate awareness of EJ issues and encourage residents to outfit bicycles with air quality monitoring instruments ( 104 ). Another compelling method is the use of PhotoVoice, which allows participants to take photographs and narrate audiovisual impressions of a local “riskscape,” often as they are also assisting with more traditional data collection ( 1 , 7 , 13 , 21 , 43 ). For some projects, an additional useful template might be exploratory mixed-methods designs, whereby qualitative inquiry with community members yields insights that inform the design of more traditional quantitative instruments.…”

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Environmental Justice: Where It Has Been, and Where It Might Be Going

Chowkwanyun

2023

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Taking stock of environmental justice (EJ) is daunting. It is at once a scholarly field, an ongoing social movement, and an administrative imperative adopted by government agencies and incorporated into legislation. Moreover, within academia, it is multidisciplinary and multimethodological, comprising scholars who do not always speak to one another. Any review of EJ is thus necessarily restrictive. This article explores several facets of EJ activism. One is its coalitional and “inside-outside” orientation. EJ activists are constantly forming alliances with other stakeholders, but these coalitions do not flout the importance of engaging with formal institutions. The review next turns to one set of such institutions—the courts and regulatory agencies—to see how well EJ claims have fared there. I then survey scientific findings that have been influenced by EJ. The review concludes with future directions for activists and scholars to consider: the changing nature of EJ coalitions, fragmentation within EJ and with other fields, the historical roots of environmental injustice, and opportunities for stronger infusion of the EJ lens. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 44 is April 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Use of Photovoice to Highlight Environmental Justice Issues: The Power of Photography in Buzzard Point, Washington, DC

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice

Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice

Reflecting on Efforts to Design an Inclusive Citizen Science Project in West Baltimore

Environmental Justice: Where It Has Been, and Where It Might Be Going

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