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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t
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Applying MEV-CAM tools: Participatory video
Rome: FAO (2024), vi, 31 pp.
Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvii, 249 pp.
"This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three s
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The Power of Grassroots Voices: Annual Report 2022-2023
Video Volunteers (2023), 112 pp.
Participatory video in agrifood systems and digital environments: A practitioner’s guide
Key Guidance
Rome: FAO (2023), ix, 66 pp.
"This field practitioner’s guide provides step-by-step guidance for creating and using participatory video within a ComDev process. The guide is part of a modular training series, but can be used as a stand-alone resource for self-learning. It is intended for use by communication practitioners, fa
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Evaluation of EngageMedia’s Project ‘Digital Rights and Video for Change: Building the Movement in Southeast Asia’
Sundbyberg: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2023), vi, 109 pp.
"This report presents a final evaluation of EngageMedia’s project «Digital Rights and Video for Change: Building the Movement in Southeast Asia», funded by the Embassy of Sweden Bangkok. The evaluation covered activities from September 2019 to August 2022 in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand,
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Changing the Story: Intergenerational Dialogue, Participatory Video and Perpetrator Memories in Cambodia
Memory Studies, volume 16, issue 5 (2022), 17 pp.
"Questions of reconciliation and memory after genocide and conflict in Cambodia remain finely poised. Young people often do not believe the stories of hardship and loss of the older generation, and cleavages remain between divided and stigmatised former factions. This article reflects on a series of
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Advancing Diversity: One Video at a Time
Video Volunteers (2022), 53 pp.
Kamera-Ethnographie: Ethnographische Forschung im Modus des Zeigens. Programmatik und Praxis
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 278 pp.
"Die Methode der Kamera-Ethnographie ist ein zeigendes statt beschreibendes Verfahren und nutzt Kameraführung, Schnitt und Montage im Rahmen einer visuellen Analytik und performativen Wissensform. Bina Elisabeth Mohns Programmschrift zeigt, wie Kamera-Ethnographie auch nonverbale Praktiken in ihren
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Steps Impact Toolkit
Cape Town: Steps (2022), 31 pp.
"The idea of telling stories for change or social impact through film is not new. Yet drafting and implementation of a film impact campaign has evolved over the last few years to include a network of impact practitioners sharing ideas and knowledge. Strategies, guidelines and models have emerged tha
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Breaking Cultures of Silence: Learnings from a Participatory Community-Centred Approach to Leveraging and Researching Documentaries for Social Change
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-22
"This article offers new learnings and recommended practices for documentary-centred grassroots engagement and social change research. These learnings were developed through a community engagement effort in 2020 that centred around a documentary film about racial violence and injustice, 'Always in S
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Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 410 pp.
"This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around
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Agroenvironmental narratives of transformative resistance: How participatory videos frame climate change in India
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 33-63
"Shifting attention from the United Nations’ focus on perpetrators of climate change to climate change victims, this qualitative content analysis uses a constructivist paradigmatic approach to examine the participatory video narratives produced by local media producers in rural India. Based on the
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Participatory Video for Two-Way Communication in Research for Development
Action Research, volume 19, issue 2 (2021), pp. 218-236
"This paper presents the participatory video methodology as an effective tool to establish a two-way communication channel between researchers and marginalized communities. The discussion begins by describing the transition from one- to two-way communication in the research for development field, fo
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Eure Message: Großes Kino
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2021), 43 pp.
"Das vorliegende Workshopkonzept wurde im Netzwerk Verstärker - aktivierende Bildungsarbeit entwickelt und im Rahmen der "Aktionsformate" des Netzwerks erprobt. Die Konzepte wurden auf Basis von wissenschaftlichen Studien und von Praxiserfahrungen zahlreicher Pädagog*innen, politischer Bildner*inn
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Evolving Social and Political Dialogue Through Participatory Video Processes
Progress in Development Studies, volume 21, issue 2 (2021), pp. 196-213
"Spaces for social and political dialogue within communities and across social levels in inequitable contexts generally do not incorporate difference across community, or enable the most marginalized people to participate meaningfully. In this article, we propose that participatory video can contrib
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Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2021), ix, 336 pp.
"Through carefully curated essays, Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez bring wider meaning and significance to the discipline through their study of alternative cinema in new territories, fueled by different historical and political circumstances, innovative technologies, and ambitious practitioners. The
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Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2021), 246 pp.
"While not every story might be appropriate to be realized with a mobile device or smartphone, if working with communities, capturing locations or working in the domain of personal or first-person filmmaking, the smartphone or mobile device should be considered as the camera of choice. The mobile sp
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Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India
New Delhi: Sage (2021), 365 pp.
"Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India is a critical reflection on governance and policymaking, development, disability, knowledge and other social markers in the context of community media. Bringing together different modes of community media—such as video, r
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La comunicación desde abajo: Historia, sentidos y prácticas de la comunicación alternativa en España
Barcelona: Gedisa (2021), 251 pp.
"La comunicación alternativa –también denominada comunitaria, libre, ciudadana, del tercer sector o para el cambio social– es percibida como una hermana menor en las ciencias de la comunicación hasta padecer una triple invisibilización: en la historia social del campo, en relación con los m
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