Using PhotoStory to capture irrigators' emotions about water policy and sustainable development objectives: A case study in rural Australia

Keremane, Ganesh B.; McKay, Jennifer

doi:10.1177/1476750311409598

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“…Other visual methods include PhotoStory, a method of "collecting information and expressing issues and emotions through photos and associated diary entries" (Keremane and McKay 2011, p. 408). Guided by Wang's Photovoice method, Keremane and McKay (2011) believed participants did more than take photographs but provided a "deeper and wider" account of their stories. While such methods have become commonplace in the literature, Photovoice has gained a more extensive application across disciplines for its participatory characteristics and adaptability, particularly when considering Indigenous communities; therefore, we direct our attention to Photovoice for the remainder of this article.…”

Section: Visual Research Methods-photographymentioning

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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: Visual Research Methods-photographymentioning

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Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice

2020

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“…The event upset the entire community, generating despair and mistrust in the institutions that were responsible for the protection and safety of all who used the bridge daily. Furthermore, several studies emphasized the potential of photovoice to generate knowledge because it allows for the exploration of participants' views, emotions, feelings, and practices and their ideas for problem solving [44].…”

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“…Because photovoice is a method of PAR, participants have the role of co-researchers who analyze the data collected during the group discussion through the sharing of the photos and the identification of possible solutions to be implemented in that context. Therefore, according to Keremane et al [44], the adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" correctly applies to the photovoice technique because the photos and the stories draw out the participants' ideas and emotions about the topic being studied.…”

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The Collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa on 14 August 2018: A Collective Traumatic Event and Its Emotional Impact Linked to the Place and Loss of a Symbol

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The collapse of the Morandi bridge in Italy, which took place in the summer of 2018, has had enormous emotional, economic, and social consequences for the inhabitants of the area, which are felt throughout the world. As seen in the literature, collective traumatic events increase the experience of insecurity and paranoia, thus increasing the perception of vulnerability. The present work aims to bring out the emotions most experienced by the participants connected to the traumatic event in question, paying attention to the possible solutions to be proposed to local stakeholders from a sustainability perspective, this way favouring community empowerment. The research, carried out with the photovoice technique, involved 30 young adults residing in areas near the event. The results illustrate how the participants experienced mainly feelings of emptiness, vulnerability, and fear as well as anger, despair, and mistrust of the institutions. It was also stressed that the economic and structural hardships hit the inhabitants hard. There have been many concrete solutions identified by the participants: creating a support network, supporting the local economy, and keeping the memory alive. The research and application implications underline the importance of using photovoice within community interventions, a tool that facilitates awareness and active citizenship.

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“…Feminist geographers have proposed an analytical approach combining water and embodiment by focusing on how water is shaped by and shapes gender subjectivity and emotions (Sultana, 2011). By the same token, political ecologists have examined the ways in which resource conflicts over water are experienced as everyday emotional struggles (Dallman et al, 2013; Keremane and McKay, 2011; Sultana, 2011).…”

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Women’s organizing against extractivism: towards a decolonial multi-sited analysis

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In Anglophone geography, proposals have called for the decolonization of geographical knowledge production to be focused on tangible and material manifestations of how dialogue is initiated and mediated among different ontologies and epistemologies. We strive to respond to this call by empirically cutting across the American continent to highlight the embodied and transnational dimensions of natural resource extraction. Across the Americas, extractive industries’ water usage often brings corporations into prolonged conflicts with local communities, who mobilize to resist the initiation and/or expansion of extractive activities that they view as threatening to their health, way of life, and their families and communities’ territories. Through two case studies from West Virginia (WV), USA, and Cuenca, Ecuador, we propose an analytical framework capturing how women organize against the extractive industry as a result of embodied water pollution. We do this with the aim of decolonizing geographical knowledge production, as we propose a decolonial, multi-sited analytical approach, which serves to rethink the scale of effects of extractive industry. By showing how resource extraction affects women’s bodies and water while also effectively allowing us to compare and contrast embodied water relations in WV and Ecuador, we better understand how extractivism works across scales—the body, the environment, and transnationally. We contend that a multi-sited approach disrupts the North–South geographical discursive divide and furthers a decolonial geographical approach in making apparent the embodied production and lived experience of territory across various scales. In this piece, we promote debates on decoloniality within Anglophone geography by proposing that we must not only consider epistemologies and spatial ontologies outside the western canon, but engage with practices and theories occurring in different parts of the globe in a simultaneous fashion as well. We call on fellow geographers to do the same.

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Using PhotoStory to capture irrigators' emotions about water policy and sustainable development objectives: A case study in rural Australia

Cited by 22 publications

References 43 publications

Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice

Utilizing Photovoice to Support Indigenous Accounts of Environmental Change and Injustice

The Collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa on 14 August 2018: A Collective Traumatic Event and Its Emotional Impact Linked to the Place and Loss of a Symbol

Women’s organizing against extractivism: towards a decolonial multi-sited analysis

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