From Oppression to Liberation: The Antirepresentation and Praxis of Self-filming among Female Immigrants from Southeast Asia

Founded theoretically on critical pedagogy and feminist films, this study is centered on the contemporary action of "self-filming" among women who immigrated to Taiwan around 2000 from Southeast Asia for marital reasons. This paper investigates three Southeast Asian women and their selffil...

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Published in:Taiwan jiao yu she hui xue yan jiu = Taiwan journal of sociology of education 2015-06, Vol.15 (1), p.89
Main Author: Ke, Wan-Ching
Format: Article
Language:Chinese
Subjects:
Asian people
Critical Theory
Females
Filming
Immigration
Learning Processes
Video Technology
Women
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Summary:Founded theoretically on critical pedagogy and feminist films, this study is centered on the contemporary action of "self-filming" among women who immigrated to Taiwan around 2000 from Southeast Asia for marital reasons. This paper investigates three Southeast Asian women and their selffilming video work to discover how marginalized "others" explore and represent themselves through the learning process of video-production and the text of their video-work, and to discover if the act of self-filming can help them to liberate themselves. The research findings reveal that self-filming helped these oppressed women acquire self-confidence and affirm their identity to construct their subjectivity. The Southeast Asian immigrant women went on a journey of self-exploration by looking at their self-reflections through the viewfinder of camcorder. The questioning and dialogues between the learners and the supporters of their learning during the image-narration process stimulated the oppressed immigrant women's self-aware
ISSN:1680-2004
DOI:10.3966/168020042015061501003