Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos

Sammanfattning

In this methodological reflection, I illustrate how participant-generated photos take on different roles throughout the research process. The photos discussed form part of a study focusing on 'sustainable' everyday practices. I account for how the photos act as windows into meanings of sustainability, as windows into sustainable materialities and as artefacts influencing the research process. The aim is to share insights gained as a result of grappling with photos, in terms of their roles - as well as what the photos portray. By bringing materialities to the fore, the photos made me reconsider the role of material elements within everyday practices, which I have come to understand as dynamic and vibrant. I argue that photos, like material elements in practices, provoke and have effects and can help foreground the often taken for granted mundane materialities entangled with everyday life.

Nyckelord

photo-elicitation; participant-generated photos; object interviews; everyday practices; material methods; material agency

Publicerad i

Qualitative Research
2025
Utgivare: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

SLU författare

• Bäckman, Malin

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Helsingin yliopisto

UKÄ forskningsämne

Tvärvetenskapliga studier

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241308710

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/140497