Photovoice for Social Justice, the latest volume in SAGE's Qualitative Research Methods Series, helps readers in the health and social sciences learn the foundations and applications of this exciting qualitative method. Authors Jean M. Breny and Shannon L. McMorrow approach photovoice as not only a community-based participatory research method, but as a method for social justice, centering community participants, organizations, and policy makers at the heart of this research method. Special topics relating to social justice include a focus on ethics and working with marginalized communities, sensitive concerns during data collection, and presenting the work to communities and policymakers, as well as academics. Written for students and researchers new to photovoice, this brief text takes readers from the process of conceptualizing and implementing a photovoice study to analyzing data and finally presenting the results of the study. The book concludes with suggestions for future iterations of photovoice, including web based resources and digital storytelling. The authors take into account the realities of photovoice as a method by providing practical, applied tools including sample consent forms, presentations, recruitment flyers, and photo-taking tips. Using Photovoice for Social Justice, new and experienced researchers can design, implement, and analyze their photovoice projects.

About the Author
Jean M. Breny is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. She received her PhD in Health Behavior/Health Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000) and her MPH in Community Health Education from San Jose State University (1994). She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health promotion practice. Her scholarship, both domestically and globally, aims to eliminate health disparities through community-based participatory action approaches that inform public health practice through an understanding of how social and cultural factors affect individual health behaviors. Shannon McMorrow is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Health Programs at Western Michigan University. Since 1998, she has worked in community-based public health as a practitioner and academic in multiple U.S. states, Belize, and Uganda. Her research and writing projects seek to illuminate important, underemphasized social and cultural aspects of public health issues in order to eliminate health inequities. She prioritizes use of community-based participatory research approaches, with a predominant focus on using photovoice. She has published and presented her photovoice work locally, nationally, and internationally in diverse and multidisciplinary venues such as the Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Public Health Education, the annual European International Studies Association, Health Education & Behavior, and the Journal of International Migration and Integration.


Book Information
ISBN 9781544355474
Author Jean M. Breny
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 170g