Antragstellerinnen
Maja Tillmann (Anthropology Department)
Riccarda Flemmer (Political Science Department)
Kurzbeschreibung
A 3-Day Workshop: Decolonizing Research Practices through Participatory Video
This workshop offers an opportunity to critically engage with decolonial research methodologies through the lens of participatory video. It is designed for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in rethinking the roles of participation, power, and positionality in fieldwork—particularly within Indigenous and intercultural contexts.
We will explore how participatory approaches can move beyond methodological tools to serve as frameworks for ethical, reciprocal, and context-sensitive research. Central to our inquiry is the question: Can participatory video foster more equitable knowledge production and contribute to the decolonization of academic and development-oriented research?
The workshop will address the enduring impact of colonial structures on research involving Indigenous communities, where knowledge systems, languages, and ways of life continue to be marginalized. We will examine how seemingly well-intentioned interventions—such as educational, environmental, and human rights programs—have often reinforced extractive or assimilationist logics.
Designed as a collaborative laboratory, the workshop will involve hands-on practice, collective reflection, and critical analysis of participatory video methods. We posit that each participatory video project constitutes a micro-level encounter between knowledge systems, offering the potential to reconfigure conventional research relationships based on trust, empathy, and mutual learning.
Participants will be encouraged to interrogate their own research paradigms and consider how participatory, decolonial approaches can lead to more just and inclusive forms of knowledge co-creation.
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