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- Convenors:
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Malena Müller
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Serjara Aleman (University of Lausanne)
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- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
This panel discusses the tensions between multimodal research practices, including visual, art-based and participatory methods, and the dissemination of knowledge through written text. Moreover, it explores the potential of these methods to amplify marginalised and silenced voices within academia.
Long Abstract:
Visual, art-based and participatory methods have gained prominence across disciplines as tools for engaging in fieldwork and producing knowledge. However, academic dissemination remains predominantly tied to written texts, which reinforce linear and often exclusionary modes of communication. As early career researchers, we encountered challenges applying audiovisual methods during fieldwork and translating embodied, multimodal experiences into conventional academic writing. This highlights the persistent tension between research practices and dissemination, as well as between the multimodal reality of research and the dominance of unimodal communication in academia. Visual, art-based and participatory methods offer alternative pathways to knowledge production. Moreover, it has the potential to amplify the voices of marginalised or silenced communities. This panel proposes to explore the transformative possibilities of these methods in fostering bottom-up, inclusive research and analysis.
We invite researchers, especially women from diverse backgrounds and non-cisgender scholars, to reflect on how these methods reshape participation and outcomes in academic scholarship. Key questions include: How do these approaches influence researcher-participant relationships and the production of knowledge? How do they enable or hinder the inclusion of marginalised voices in academic discourse? How might these methods contribute to a more equitable scholarly environment?
This panel seeks to critically engage with these questions, reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of integrating visual, art-based, and participatory methods into academic practice.
This Panel has so far received 4 paper proposal(s).
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