Explorando el campo de conocimiento del video participativo. Un recorrido por las principales aportaciones teórico-prácticas

Abstract

Within the academic field, Participatory Video (PV) has established itself as a singular object of study, still in need of rigorous attention. It represents and inter-disciplinary terrain that has attracted academic interest towards practical experiences, generating knowledge and a sort of critical debate more focused on action patterns that on theoretical insights.

The following pages attempt to identify the researchers, publications and approaches that first framed the debate on participatory and community audiovisual practice. We will discuss in-depth the texts that, under the PV label, proceeded to conceptually structure experiences, open original debates and shifted PV towards the theoretical repertoire of social research. The essay will close with a critical overview of relevant contemporary debates that explore new ways of understanding and using PV in relation to new digital media while, at the same time, recuperating or questioning traditional participatory strategies associated to PV as a practice.