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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
In this paper, I use participatory video to document women's experiences in conflict situations. Rethinking the way knowledge is produced, reflects concerns about the ways knowledge on local women in the global south, are manipulated, with concerns about which voices are heard.
Paper long abstract:
In thinking about the extent to which participatory methodologies opens up new insights and facilitates the processes of co-production of knowledge at the local level, my work highlights that although leadership happens everywhere, for most of the women in the Niger Delta it poses a major challenge. It is one where the toxic model of patriarchy and associated inequalities come to play. Women leaders are not empowered or given a voice in charting the development agendas of most of the communities. Participatory approaches and methodologies have long been advocated as a means to generate knowledge that addresses power inequalities, passing power from researcher(s) to research participants (Chambers 1997), and endorsing diverse perspectives of social realities as endogenous knowledge. Young women in the communities I engaged with are asking for empowerment and also roles in the discussions in conflict settings, they argue for equal participation on a levelled platform. In particular issues such as fear, poverty, violence against women and girls, inequalities, relegation of women, as well as resource related environmental issues are depicted using the women's own voices. Perhaps more leadership opportunities for women in the region could lead to changes in personal and collective values and also behaviour towards improving and entrenching nonviolence in addressing the Niger Delta issues. In this project, I used participatory videos to document local women's experiences, needs and hopes from their own perspectives in relation to developmental issues and conflict
Visual tools to empower participatory research
Session 1 Friday 2 June, 2023, -