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Accepted Paper:
Kazimuddin Ahmed (University of Helsinki) Andrea Butcher (University of Helsinki) Salla Sariola (University of Helsinki) Lara Bezzina (Independent Scholar)
Paper short abstract:
This paper narrates how researchers and practitioners in West Africa and Europe adapted a participatory video process for long distance online training for research. It discusses how this adaptation challenged some of the fundamental aspects of participatory visual methods in research and practice.
Paper long abstract:
Our paper narrates experiences from a multi-local online participatory visual methods (PVM) collaboration between researchers in Benin, Burkina Faso, Finland and Malta. Conducted between April and June 202, the initiative was a collective effort to generate information on antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in West Africa. The broader vision of the project was for the collaborators to facilitate science communication among their communities as well as to convey community concerns to policymakers for long term change.
While the pandemic closed the doors to the original plan of an on-location programme, it opened other avenues of exploring processes of PVM. More importantly, it led to a new horizon where existing technical and methodological norms with regard to PVM were radically challenged and negotiated, creating new debates and possibilities that those involved with the project never thought of. Three key learnings emerged from this process.
a) Lack of resources led to extensive bricolage/ DIY/ jugaad that demystified technological challenges. This enhanced ownership and autonomy of the process and rearranged the relationships between the bricoleur (Levi-Straus 1962) and conventional PVM.
b) Redesigning an on-location training module to an online format made some fundamental changes to a participatory process, posing new questions for the idea of participation.
c) An observation of the facilitator-participant relationship revealed factors that could be effectively viewed as facilitating a form of decolonisation of visual methods.
Using narratives and visuals, we aim to present our story of adapting to the challenges posed by the pandemic for continued engagement with PVM.
Collaborating with non-academic partners in research: negotiating conceptual and ethical frameworks
Session 1 Wednesday 19 January, 2022, -