Cooke, P, Shrestha, A, Arjyal, A et al. (7 more authors) (2020) What is ‘antimicrobial resistance’ and why should anyone make films about it? Using ‘participatory video’ to advocate for community-led change in public health. New Cinemas, 17 (1). pp. 85-107. ISSN 1474-2756
Abstract
In this article, we discuss the role of participatory video (PV) as a tool for developing community-level solutions to ‘Antimicrobial Resistance’ (AMR) in Nepal. In recent years, PV has become an ever more popular tool in development contexts for supporting communities in low and middle income countries to raise awareness of issues that they do not feel are adequately represented in mainstream media. One area of growing interest in this regard is public health. However, PV has not, to date, been used to address AMR, currently considered to be one of the biggest public health issues we face globally. Placing our project within the wider context of ‘participatory documentary’ practice, we examine the world-view presented in the films this project generated, a dimension of such projects that is, somewhat curiously perhaps, often overlooked, with commentators tending to focus on the process of delivering PV, rather than the final products made. Here we are particularly interested in questions of power and how a close reading of the texts produced highlights the complexity of the power relationships at work in these films, which, in turn, can allow us to reflect in new ways on the processes at work in the project.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Intellect Ltd Article. This is an author produced version of an article published in New Cinemas. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Nepal; antimicrobial resistance; development; participatory documentary; participatory video; power; textual analysis |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number RCUK (Research Councils UK) AH/R005869/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2020 10:02 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2021 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Intellect |
Identification Number: | 10.1386/ncin_00006_1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154934 |