Participation + Video: An introduction to the Handbook on Participatory Video

Citation

Mitchell C, Milne E & de Lange N (2012) Participation + Video: An introduction to the Handbook on Participatory Video. In: Milne E, Mitchell C & deLange N N (eds.) The Handbook of Participatory Video. Lanham MD, USA: AltaMira Press. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759121133

Abstract
Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world. The Handbook of Participatory Video advances the field, engaging critically with it as a research methodology and method and interrogating assumptions about its emancipatory nature and potential for social change. In twenty-eight chapters, contributors examine historical, ethical, methodological, and technical aspects of participatory video and discuss power, ownership, and knowledge production. The Handbook is organized into six parts: Locating Participatory Video, Participatory Video as a Critical Research Methodology, Working with Visual Data, Power and Ethics in Participatory Video, Dissemination and Reaching New Audiences, and Communities and Technologies. This benchmark work takes an interdisciplinary and global approach and will be invaluable to researchers, practitioners, and students.

Keywords
International Development; Participatory Geographies; Education; Health; HIV and AIDS; Social Science; Media and Communication; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Change; Social Activism; Participatory Video; Film; Visual Methods' Visual Sociology; Ethics; Decolonizing Methods; New Zealand; Canada; USA; Vietnam; UK; Canada; Fogo; Zimbabwe; Uganda; South Africa; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; Hungary