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Self-Portraits for Social Change: Audience Response to a Photovoice Exhibition by Women with Disability
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posted on 2023-02-08, 22:58 authored by D Macdonald, Angela DewAngela Dew, KR Fisher, KM BoydellNegative attitudes about and behaviours towards women with disability are harmful and exclusionary, contributing to poorer health, income, educational, and employment outcomes. Our study focused on what audiences learnt, felt, and did (what changed) after viewing self-portraits and stories by women with disability. We questioned whether a public exhibition of their artworks, created through photovoice methodology, could be an effective platform to provoke social change and increase inclusion for people with disability. We collected audience response to our exhibition to address a research gap and to provide an example for other photovoice researchers. We employed interpretive thematic analysis through a generic social processes framework to interrogate responses. Our findings indicate that audiences learnt as much about themselves and their views of disability as they did about the women photographers. The audience described feelings of empathic engagement. They also expressed an unsettling between previously held assumptions around disability and new perspectives gained through the exhibition. Audiences changed how they view women with disability by engaging with the underlying messages of equality in the self-portraits and stories. Audiences thought the exhibition would change other people’s views, too, indicating a pathway to greater inclusion for people with disability.
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Qualitative ReportVolume
27Article number
ARTN 8Pagination
1011-1039Publisher DOI
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2160-3715eISSN
2160-3715Language
EnglishIssue
4Publisher
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVUsage metrics
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Social SciencesSocial Sciences, InterdisciplinarySocial Sciences - Other Topicsphotovoice exhibitionsocial changedisabilityself-portraitaudience responsegeneric social processesinterpretive thematic analysisarts-based researchgrounded theoryparticipatory action researchmixed methodologyBehavioral and Social Science10 Reduced Inequalities4 Quality Education
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