Empowerment through Photo Novella: Portraits of Participation

Photo novella does not entrust cameras to health specialists, policymakers, or professional photographers, but puts them in the hands of children, rural women, grassroots workers, and other constituents with little access to those who make decisions over their lives. Promoting what Brazilian educato...

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Published in:Health education & behavior 1994, Vol.21 (2), p.171-186
Main Authors: Wang, Caroline, Burris, Mary Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Child
Child, Preschool
China
Citizen Participation
Community Organizations
Community Power
Consciousness Raising
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Developing Countries
Documentaries
Educational Programs
Empowerment
Female
Females
Foreign Countries
Health
Health Education
Health Policy - trends
Health Services Needs and Demand - trends
Humans
Infant
Life Style
Male
Participation
Photography
Photonovels
Policy Formation
Population
Power (Psychology)
Rural areas
Rural Health - trends
Rural Population
Rural Women
Social Change
Women
Women's Health Services - trends
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Summary:Photo novella does not entrust cameras to health specialists, policymakers, or professional photographers, but puts them in the hands of children, rural women, grassroots workers, and other constituents with little access to those who make decisions over their lives. Promoting what Brazilian educator Paulo Freire has termed "education for critical consciousness," photo novella allows people to document and discuss their life conditions as they see them. This process of empowerment education also enables community members with little money, power, or status to communicate to policymakers where change must occur. This paper describes photo novella's underpinnings: empowerment education, feminist theory, and documentary photography. It draws on our experience implementing the process among 62 rural Chinese women, and shows that two major implications of photo novella are its contributions to changes in consciousness and informing policy.
ISSN:0195-8402
1090-1981
1552-6127
DOI:10.1177/109019819402100204