NEWEST DRADT HARKIS

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Participatory documentary is appropriate because the project is not only asking what participants say about memory and belonging. It is asking how they make representational decisions. Film can register pacing, hesitation, gesture, tone, domestic space, objects, photographs, code-switching, avoidance and refusal in ways that transcripts alone may flatten (MacDougall, 2006; Pink, 2013; Rose, 2016).
At the same time, film cannot transparently reveal inner truth. It always involves framing, selection, editing and interpretation. The thesis will therefore treat documentary-making as a negotiated knowledge practice, not as direct access to participants’ private memory.
These phases reflect participatory research principles by involving participants not only as sources of testimony, but as contributors to decisions about scenes, objects, locations, language, anonymity, subtitles and circulation.

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