Towards an Anticolonial Photovoice: A Research Practice Guide to Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

Photovoice researchers must avoid an ahistorical application of the method by critically examining implementation and dissemination photovoice projects. Recognizing that is not automatically empowering dismantling power dynamics ongoing struggle requiring constant vigilance to ethical, methodological, representational issues, I propose anticolonial framework for photovoice, drawing on work scholars. This approach acknowledges legacies colonialism racism within health research systems, imperative working with Indigenous marginalized communities. address multiple phases a project, problematizing relations in each phase suggesting how anticolonially adapt theoretical orientations methodological processes. Areas under-addressed literature, such as epistemic justice, recruitment relations, decolonized concepts rigor, problematization pseudonyms/anonymizing, cross-language writing, are discussed, interweaving analyses practical guidance from outcomes my mestizo communities Ecuador.