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Picturing community development work in Uganda: fostering dialogue through photovoice

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This article explores the use of photovoice in understanding the roles and experiences of community development workers in Uganda and how such methodology can foster dialogue. Community development workers, attached to a local development organisation, took photographs and engaged in discussions about their roles and experiences. The rich and generative photovoice exercise revealed four major themes, namely, social progress/development (enkurakurana), cooperation (enkwatanisa), education (eby'enyegesa) and our challenges (ebizibu byaitu) in the experiences of these community development workers. In addition to such an insiders' view of community development through photographs, the article discusses an emergent conceptual framework of five types of dialogue which photovoice methodology can foster in community development research. The article argues that photovoice can richly serve development research given its inherent participatory, critical and emancipatory character. Photovoice fosters multiple forms of dialogue and in so doing, allows people to picture and name their world.

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Series Title

Community Development Journal

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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Language

English

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0010-3802

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Volume 50, Number 2 April 2015, pages 196-212

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Development organisations
Social progress/development (enkurakurana)
Cooperation (enkwatanisa)
Education (eby'enyegesa)
Our challenges (ebizibu byaitu)

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