Enacting anti-racist visualities through photo-dialogues on race in Paris

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099, Schoonejans, Alice, Johnson, Guillaume D., Thomas, Kevin D. and Harrison, Anthony Kwame 2021. Enacting anti-racist visualities through photo-dialogues on race in Paris. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 40 (2) , pp. 165-179. 10.1108/EDI-01-2020-0019

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Purpose Grounded in experience of co-organizing a two-day photography-based workshop in Paris, this paper explores how photo-dialogues can facilitate anti-racist pedagogy and generative discussions about how race and racism function in marketplace contexts. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on the authors' involvement in a cross-national and cross-disciplinary team of scholars who worked with local community stakeholders—including activists, artists and practitioners—to discuss, theorize and photo-document issues regarding race and racism in the Parisian marketplace. Findings This paper contributes to the literature on visual culture studies and critical race studies as it demonstrates the potentials of photography combined with dialogue to challenge the White supremacy over archiving and visuality in the context of urban spaces. This new methodology is an opportunity to reflect on archetypes of visuality that depart from the traditional Parisian flâneur to be consistent with and reinforce anti-racist stances. Originality/value Photography and visual methods often play peripheral roles in anti-racist education across various disciplines and research areas, including critical marketplace studies. This paper expands understanding of the potentials of using photographic methods as part of critical and anti-racist work related to racial and racist dynamics, including issues regarding power, White supremacy and public space. It outlines the use of photographic dialogues in a context (Paris, France) where discussion of race is regularly societally discouraged. Thus, this work shifts the focus away from decontextualized research that regards race as an object, to specifically foreground understandings of racialized experiences and how the photographic gaze produces and is produced by racialized viewers.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Additional Information:	Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Publisher:	Emerald
ISSN:	2040-7149
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 December 2020
Date of Acceptance:	5 October 2020
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 01:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136187

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