“(Re)conquering power to narrate one’s own history – and, therefore, to construct one’s own image, one’s own identity, to recover and assume a diversity of knowledge systems – constitutes one of the foundations of the decolonisation process” (María Paula Meneses, 2018, p.73). This is the essence of my daily work in communication and participatory media…
Tania Ocampo-Garcia, our Learning and Trainings Officer, reflects on her four years with InsightShare, on the cusp of starting a PhD. As an international student coming to the UK for an MSc in Environmental Change and International Development, I set myself the goal of absorbing as much knowledge as I could from my professors that…
To complete my Master in Development Administration and Planning at UCL, I had the opportunity to do my dissertation with InsightShare, whom I initially met in 2012 when I was volunteering as an anthropologist for the Open Opportunities programme in Guatemala. Since then, I have been interested in the organisation because it seemed to me…
The COVID-19 pandemic is a pressure point for the world’s vulnerable peoples. As we all retreat into our homes, their struggles become more invisible. InsightShare Network’s new series amplifying Indigenous voices on COVID-19 uses media to bring into focus stories on the crisis from 10 different countries. By Grace Hutchison. The unequal COVID-19 crisis The…
