Destabilizing the Photograph: The Process of Image-Making as a Discursive Exercise in Self-Making Through Photovoice Engagement With Children

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Abstract: This thesis examines questions about representation as they emerged from my fieldwork with children and youth ages 5 to 14-years-old who attended a farm-based education summer camp in Sunnyvale, CA, during the summer of 2013. I argue that the participatory and dialogic framework of Photovoice, a participatory photography methodology, allows for the empowerment and validation of research participants in the construction of their self-representation. Through an analysis of the participants’ transformative and exploratory responses to Photovoice, I highlight the experiences of five children as case studies in order to better understand what I call photographer persona as a concept for self-making, through which memory, empathy, awareness, sharing, and play emerge as extensions of the self and ways of being in the world. For this study, I draw upon the fields of child development, photography, anthropology, and engaged scholarship. I focus on the process of image-making as a conduit for self-making vis à vis the effects of participatory research on the empowerment of the self.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2014

Author	Kirby, Brianna
Primary advisor	Ebron, Paulla
Advisor	Hurd, Clayton
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Anthropology

Subject	Stanford University Department of Anthropology
Subject	Public Service Scholars Program Haas Center for Public Service
Subject	Photovoice
Subject	photography
Subject	participatory research
Subject	children
Subject	case studies
Subject	child development
Subject	anthropology
Subject	engaged scholarship
Subject	memory
Subject	empathy
Subject	awareness
Subject	sharing
Subject	self-making
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/gv923cc5855

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Preferred Citation: Kirby, Brianna. (2014). Destabilizing the Photograph: The Process of Image-Making as a Discursive Exercise in Self-Making Through Photovoice Engagement With Children. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gv923cc5855

Undergraduate Research Papers, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.

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