Braiding the Healing Gifts of Photovoice for Social Change: The Means Are Ends in the Making

Photovoice is an important participatory action method for motivating social change. The potential for this change within the processes of the method remains under-explored. We present the voice and perspectives of three health promotion practitioners who have important connections to photovoice: a...

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Published inHealth promotion practice Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 1124 - 1132
Main Authors Burris, Mary Ann, Evans-Agnew, Robin A., Strack, Robert W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2023
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Change agents
Gifts
Healing
Health promotion
Photography
Social change
Storytelling
photovoice
trauma
healing
tobacco prevention
HIV
body mapping
health promotion
power
relationship-building
social change
environmental justice
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Summary:Photovoice is an important participatory action method for motivating social change. The potential for this change within the processes of the method remains under-explored. We present the voice and perspectives of three health promotion practitioners who have important connections to photovoice: a grandmother and co-founder of the method, a nurse from Wales, and an early adopter seeking change. Through braided storytelling, the voices describe their history with photovoice and how their relationship to the method has changed over time, arguing ultimately that in photovoice the means are as important as the ends for advancing relations with others, understanding and working with power, and realizing the gifts the processes bring.
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ISSN:1524-8399
1552-6372
DOI:10.1177/15248399231192993