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Researchers’ Stories About Doing Research on Gendered and Sexual Violence: A Photovoice Study
Unsettling knowledge production on SGBV necessitates shifting the lens onto SGBV researchers’ experiences and asking critical questions about who is doing this research, how this research impacts them, and what meanings they attach to researching violence. Grounded in decolonial feminism and participatory action research, this study uses photovoice to explore and gain in-depth insights into researchers’ lived experiences of doing SGBV research. Focus groups and co- researchers’ photo-stories were then interpreted using a dual decolonial intersectional narrative and visual arts-informed analysis. This study also aims to pioneer new methodologies of approaching SGBV research that embrace emotionality, subjectivity, and critical reflexivity. Unsettling knowledge production on SGBV also inspires a call to create new opportunities for producing and disseminating knowledge about SGBV – which this study hopes to honour through representing its findings through creative media including photography and film.
Five postgraduate student researchers were entrusted with capturing images that tell their stories about doing SGBV research.Three key narratives emerged: trauma and institutional entanglement; research as personal; opportunities for hope, positivity, and social justice.
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