CIAC WEBINARS
PAMELA RICHARDSON IS THE GUEST SPEAKER OF THE NEXT CIAC WEBINAR
On 24 November 2022, at 17h30, CIAC promotes the webinar “The decolonising potentials and pitfalls of Participatory Video as a research tool” with Pamela Richardson (Universidade de Sheffield, U.K.).
The 13th edition of CIAC Webinars aims to explore the decolonizing potentials and pitfalls of PV in the context of research. This session is a product of COST ACTION – Decolonizing Development: Research, Teaching, and Practice (DecolDEV, CA19129) and is organized and moderated by CIAC researcher Sílvia Viegas.
Participatory Video (PV) is a method that involves supporting individuals in a group setting to create their own videos. The process is geared towards fostering dialogue and supporting inclusion of marginalised peoples. As a qualitative, visual, and participatory method, PV can empower research participants/partners to communicate their ideas, stories, and perspectives.
Decoloniality is a conceptual tool and a stance that involves acknowledging the multiplicitous ways in which coloniality infuses and shapes our lives. It is also a praxis that attempts to confront, dismantle and do things (e.g. research) differently, to foster social justice. As methododological praxis, decoloniality aspires to validate and re-story the multiplicity of lifeworlds and ways of knowing that have been rejected by colonialism and coloniality, and to decentre and destabilise Western/capitalist/heteronormative/racial hierarchies and privileges.
Dr. Pamela Richardson is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow based at the University of Sheffield (UK). She completed her doctorate in Geography at the University of Oxford in 2009 and followed with postdoctoral research in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Germany (2010-18). Her research on agri-food systems, diverse economies, community-building, ethics and sustainability is committed to epistemological pluralism and reflexivity regarding the politics of knowledge production. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, as well as developing many public-oriented, multi-media outputs. Pamela has worked with video for more than 16 years, facilitating participatory/collaborative video projects in several countries and contexts. Since 2019, she has remotely facilitated hundreds of online workshops in video-making for more than 20 different international learning groups. In 2022, she co-led an 8-week workshop program on “Exploring Participatory Video as a praxis for Decolonising Research and Development”.
Participation is free and grants a certificate. Registrations here.
