Ways of knowing, ways of seeing: experiences of visual methodologies in Johannesburg, South Africa
Jo Vearey, PhD Elsa Oliveira, PhD candidate jovearey@gmail.com
SeaM launch 17th February 2016
http://makaylalewis.co.uk/2015/09/18/sketchnotes-4th-international-visual-methods-conference-2015/
Process, artifacts, data
www.migration.org.za/move https://www.facebook.com/t hemoveprojectsouthafrica
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visualising methodological and ethical concerns
1. Context
– Social justice
2. Approach: development, implementation, dissemination – Involved methods?
3. Ethics
– Why does the visual “make visible” existing concerns re. methods and processes?
1. Pilot projects? –
Some ideas
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identity, representations, power, agency mobilities work: productive, reproductive determinants of health structural and direct violence inequalities and inequities social justice and social change dual imperative research translation
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(Figure adapted from UN-HABITAT, 2008: 72)
Approach • power, reflexivity • involvement, participation, collaboration, partnerships • process and outputs • dissemination • endpoints and onward prompts • advocacy and awareness • evolving, iterative, grounded
Ethics • • © Monica Mabasa, 2010
© Iketleng, 2010
University Research Ethics Committees (RECs) consent, confidentiality, anonymity, archiving, ownership, dissemination
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identity, representations, power, agency mobilities work: productive, reproductive determinants of health structural and direct violence inequalities and inequities social justice and social change research translation
Ethics • •
University Research Ethics Committees (RECs) consent, confidentiality, anonymity, archiving, ownership
Knowledge production and methodology • power, reflexivity • involvement, participation, collaboration, partnerships • process and outputs • endpoints and onward prompts • advocacy and awarenes • evolving, iterative, grounded
Why visual and narrative methods? • Beyond more established quantitative and qualitative research approaches: mixed methods, multi-methods • Accessing “marginalised communities”: what is a community?, access, safety, legality, ‘voice’
• Residents as experts; researchers as participants: power • Partnerships and collaboration: university, photography school, community and advocacy groups, government
• Exploring (re)presentation and challenging social research: what do we really know?
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http://workingthecity.wordpress.com/
• Izwi Lethu Issue 4 2015 • Izwi Lethu Issue 1
https://weareallpoets2015.wordpress.com/
Pilot projects? MIXED METHOD APPROACHES – Complementary approaches, engaging with Big Data / longitudinal studies / network mapping – E.g. artisinal mining, JHB periphery: health, wellness, migration
• Politics of knowledge and knowledge production – Critical, self-reflective lens on conceptualisation, method, approach and beyond
• Research on production, dissemination and “research uptake” – Different modes? – Visualising data (v’s visual methods) – Role of public exhibitions, engagement, etc
sex work in South Africa
sex work in South Africa
graduate student training
partnerships with sex workers and civil society movements at multiple levels
qualitative studies exploring lived experience
contribution to policy development
quantitative, cross-sectional survey
academic writing
participant observation in policy processes
interactions and work with IGOs
co-writing with sex work participants
engagement with media
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