Enacting a trauma-informed participatory photography project rooted in a feminist ethics of care / Jasmine Fledderjohann, Sophie Patterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fledderjohann, Jasmine, author.

Patterson, Sophie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Visual sociology.

Feminism.

Psychic trauma--Prevention.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2026.

Summary:

This how-to guide presents a trauma-informed approach to participatory-action research rooted in a feminist ethics of care. We specifically describe using participatory photography, a method whereby participants use photographs to articulate and visually represent lived experience of challenging social issues. We illustrate the practical application of this method by drawing on our experience of co-designing and creating a participatory photography project in collaboration with two voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organizations and five people with lived experience of structural inequities. In doing so, we draw out key values of trauma-informed engagement and a feminist ethics of care to advance a person-centered (rather than extractive) research approach. We explain how this approach enabled us to anticipate and overcome practical challenges during the research process and why the ethos of this approach was consistent with an ethics of care moral philosophy. This illustrative example provides helpful guidance to support meaningful partnerships between researchers and marginalized communities, disrupt traditional power hierarchies in the research ecosystem, and mobilize experiential knowledge to deliver social change, in terms defined and owned by local communities. We highlight several key suggestions for best practice, including taking time to develop meaningful community partnerships; committing to a relational approach that is supported by both adequate time and material resources; prioritizing participants’ aims (rather than just academic research aims); sharing knowledge and power; working collaboratively to identify and address power and trauma-related barriers to inclusive participation; including yourself in your ethic of care; and co-creating an evaluation process.

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ISBN:

9781036252892

OCLC:

1594889061

Publisher Number:

T303008