Decolonising research and folk media: a methodology for Exploring narratives of HIV and AIDS in rural Malawi.

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Arts & Health Pub Date : 2024-05-11 DOI:10.1080/17533015.2024.2346103

Sharifa Abdulla

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Abstract

Background: In Malawi, well-meaning HIV and AIDS interventions imagined in the "Global North" continue to ignore how local people construct the world. This paper explores how folk media can be used to enable research on HIV and AIDS to be positioned within localised cultural paradigms.

Methods: Drawing on Chewa epistemology, I used folk media methods supported by participant observation. The research was conducted in three phases over 15 days in two rural communities and captured the workshop processes, participants' process reviews, verbal journals and creative outputs through pictures, audio and video recordings, field notes and reflections. Data was analysed thematically.

Finding: Folk media can be used to structure research, to facilitate a conducive environment for research practice, as data and as a method for the generation of data/knowledge.

Conclusions: Folk media can be a strong, replicable, culturally grounded, decolonizing research methodology that promotes collaboration and the deconstruction of power relations.

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非殖民化研究和民间媒体：探索马拉维农村地区艾滋病毒和艾滋病叙事的方法。

背景：在马拉维，"全球北方 "善意的艾滋病干预措施仍然忽视了当地人是如何构建世界的。本文探讨了如何利用民间媒体，将艾滋病病毒和艾滋病的研究定位在本地化的文化范式中：方法：借鉴切瓦认识论，我使用了民间媒体方法，并辅以参与观察。研究在两个农村社区分三个阶段进行，历时 15 天，通过图片、录音和录像、现场笔记和反思，记录了工作坊过程、参与者的过程回顾、口头日志和创造性成果。对数据进行了专题分析：研究结果：民间媒体可用于构建研究结构，为研究实践创造有利环境，也可用作数据和生成数据/知识的方法：结论：民间媒体可以成为一种强大的、可复制的、以文化为基础的、非殖民化的研究方法，促进合作和权力关系的解构。

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