“(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…
Taahira Ayood, our new Operations and Project Officer, shares her journey to Participatory Video, discusses her insights into Tamil culinary traditions as a form of social healing and reflects on her time as a journalist.
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…
Participatory video is a powerful tool for community-led research. It requires the researcher to put aside their own biases and assumptions, allowing community perspectives to shine. As a student researcher, I learned firsthand the value of participatory video when I began replicating a common mistake made by generations of ethnographic filmmakers: the desire to stage…
