Dear Nadine and Jade,
Your sketch on creating a collaborative film project to address issues in postcolonial and feminist technoscience is helping me think through my own creative research methods in Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS). Both of our methods seem to involve the production of art as a research method for exploring social issues as well as using artistic products as “texts” through which these issues can be analyzed from an STS lens. This sketch is especially relevant because it proposes to look at disability and health issues using participatory methods that provide the care necessary to handle these issues ethically and justly. To this end, the work of Hester Parr’s team (as described in their 2007 article that you cited in the sketch) on film as research method for mental health research is a great fit for your proposed project. As the article mentions, it is important for researchers to prioritize “the development of sensitive and participative methodologies appropriate to accessing the worlds of [marginalized, minoritized, and/or oppressed] people [such as those] with “severe and enduring mental health problems” (115) that is “co-empowering” (128) for everyone involved in the research project. Thank you for sharing such a generative sketch!
Citation:
Parr, Hester. “Collaborative Film-Making as Process, Method and Text in Mental Health Research.” Cultural Geographies 14, no. 1 (January 2007): 114–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007072822.
