Nawrath, Maximilian, Fisher, Jessica C., Arotoma-Rojas, Ingrid et al. (5 more authors) (2024) Using participatory video in environmental research. People and Nature. ISSN 2575-8314
Abstract
Tackling environmental challenges that face humanity requires us to acknowledge new ways of working and to cross disciplinary boundaries. However, the methodological toolkit used by environmental researchers to explore the human attitudes, knowledge and behaviours that drive global challenges such as biodiversity loss and climate breakdown remains constrained. Here, we describe participatory video, a methodology for capturing and communicating knowledge, which goes beyond interviews, focus groups and participant observation. We draw from the literature and our own experience of conducting participatory video projects in Nepal, Guyana and Peru. We demonstrate the diverse ways in which the methodology can be applied to environmental research and highlight its strengths and limitations. Participatory video provides a more holistic understanding of environmental issues by using multiple types of data, its longer-term engagement with issues, opening channels of communication between stakeholders, engaging a diversity of knowledge systems and advocating for transformative change. By taking a participatory video approach, environmental researchers may begin to counter commonplace criticisms about lack of diversity and entrenched colonialism. This simultaneously responds to wider calls for environmental research to engage with social justice issues, represent diverse voices, understand different contexts and acknowledge the role of power. Crucially, this helps build trust amongst all those involved. By demonstrating how we have successfully used participatory video in projects in conservation, ecology and climate science, we provide guidance for researchers looking to expand their methodological toolkit. Ultimately, we seek to improve the use of participatory methods to help support communities to tackle the environmental challenges that they face. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: M.N. was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the SPHERES DTP (grant number NE/L002574/1) and by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). M.D., Z.G.D. and J.C.F. were funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (consolidator grant no. 726104). Additionally, J.C.F. was supported by grants from the RGS with IBG (Dudley Stamp Memorial Award), Gilchrist Educational Foundation, the Global Challenges Research Fund (Partnership Development Fund) and ESRC (ES/J500148/1) and NERC (NE/L002582/1). I.A.\u2010R. was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (106372\u2010003, 004, 005). P.C. received funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund (AH/R005354/1). We thank the two anonymous reviewers for their useful feedback on our manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors. People and Nature published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. |
Keywords: | biodiversity conservation,climate science,ecology,environmental social science,inclusive,interdisciplinary,participatory videography,visual methods |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Hull York Medical School (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2024 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 01:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10646 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/pan3.10646 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:213168 |
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