Tremblay, C.;
Harris, L.M.;
(2022)
Water governance in two urban African contexts: agency and action through participatory video.
Research for All
, 6
(1)
pp. 1-19.
10.14324/RFA.06.1.04.
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Abstract
This paper describes and critically examines the process and outcomes of a community-based participatory video (PV) research project on issues related to water governance with residents of underserved and informal settlements in Khayelitsha, South Africa and Accra, Ghana. Co-produced videos were used to facilitate communication and to open a dialogue between the participating communities and their respective local governments, with the aims of improving awareness of the issues, enhancing agency and enabling participation in the political and social debates about water governance. Analysing the approach, our research draws on two key principles of participatory governance – recognition and response – to evaluate the application of PV as a potential engagement tool for participatory water governance. We critically discuss the reality and tensions of PV in shifting deep-rooted inequities of power in decision making through two case studies, both of which involved residents and representatives from local governments in the research process.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Water governance in two urban African contexts: agency and action through participatory video |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/RFA.06.1.04 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.06.1.04 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022, Crystal Tremblay and Leila M. Harris. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | participatory video, water governance, community-based research, community engagement, urban Africa |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146542 |
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