Summary
- Topic Call For Papers — Panel "Voices and Visions" at CIEA
- When to (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
- Where Barcelona — Spain
- URL https://redestudiosafricanos.org/en/panels/voices-and-visions-exploring-postcolonial-places-through-participatory-audiovisual-co-creation/
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Description
Call for Papers for the upcoming 12th CIEA (Iberian Congress of African Studies) conference which will be held on January 29-31 2025 at the University of Barcelona.
Panel “Voices and Visions: Exploring Postcolonial Places Through Participatory Audiovisual Co-creation”
The panel explores the intersection between audiovisual qualitative methods, participatory research approaches, and the study of the tangible and intangible in postcolonial Africa.
The deadline for submitting a paper abstract is 12 September 2024.
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Please find the long abstract of the panel here: https://redestudiosafricanos.org/en/panels/voices-and-visions-exploring-postcolonial-places-through-participatory-audiovisual-co-creation/
Please find the information to submit your paper here:
Short abstract of the panel:
To respond to the challenge of decolonizing social science research, scholars have turned to creative applications of participatory audio-visual in various African contexts. Seeking to identify “new empathetic routes through which to broker everyday knowledge” (Pink 2011, 451), such methods can help to awaken otherwise hazy memories, illustrating and communicating this past to an outside observer while also connecting to the immediacy of human experience in an affective and often non-verbal manner. The realms of sound and image can enable both researcher and participants to evoke various senses, meanings, experiences and emotions. Such methods have become an important stimulus to prompt people’s own stories and indigenous perspectives. Followed responsibly, they can help participants to assume control over their narratives: expressing priorities through their own gaze and using their own voice. Oftentimes, the process of co-production is no less important and edifying as the final products, both for the communities (e.g., by honing skills and opening new avenues of co-creation) and for the researcher (e.g., by informing them about social power dynamics and priorities).
This panel explores the intersection between audiovisual qualitative methods, participatory research approaches, and the study of the tangible and intangible in postcolonial Africa. Presenters are welcome to share their experiences—regardless of discipline—employing established and exploratory creative methods: participatory photography and videography, graphic anthropology and mental mapping, audio walks and other movement-oriented audiovisual methods, amongst others. We encourage discussions on practical considerations, e.g. equipment, participant selection, training sessions, ethical dilemmas, and cascading effects of co-production.
