Storytelling Domestic Violence: Feminist Politics of Participatory Video in Cambodia
Analyses spontaneous and orchestrated forms of storytelling on this 鈥減rivate鈥� issue based on 4 participatory video workshops
Abstract
Domestic violence is often referred to in development circles as the most pervasive, yet least recognised, human rights abuse in the world.
Based on 4 participatory video (PV) workshops in Cambodia, the paper analyses spontaneous and orchestrated forms of storytelling on this normatively 鈥減rivate鈥� issue. Bringing into conversation emerging geographical scholarship on storytelling with more established PV literature, it provides an exploration of the feminist politics that arise when participants鈥� narratives belie established academic knowledge on the causes of, and solutions to, domestic violence. In tandem with questioning whose narrative authority 鈥渃ounts鈥�, the paper works to problematise commonly held assumptions about the efficacy of PV to overcome hegemonic norms and discourses.
Citation
Brickell, K.; Garrett, B. Storytelling Domestic Violence: Feminist Politics of Participatory Video in Cambodia. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (2015) 14 (3) 928-953.