Anthropology research seminar: Collaborative visual anthropology: responding to de-colonial anthropology, in a Sahel in crisis?

In this presentation, we discuss and present recent experiences from the Sahel on Sahel: collaborative visual anthropology program (2021-2027) within a de-colonial approach. “De-colonial anthropology” is an ongoing discourse, aiming to acknowledge and address the power imbalances that exist between the researcher and the researched. It emphasises the importance of ethical research practices that focus on consent, reciprocity, and collaboration, and challenges traditional research frameworks, encouraging alternative forms of knowledge production, such as approaches that prioritise community participation, oral histories, and storytelling.

In the Sahel on Sahel project, a collaboration between universities in Bamako, Maroua, Tromsø, Ngaoundéré and Niamey, we are trying to meet these challenges through our visual anthropological working practices, both in how we manage the different visual anthropology programs and how our master, doctoral students and researchers work in the field.

Video clips from the program will be shown to give ethnographic context.