What types of embodied, participatory, or transdisciplinary methodologies and approaches can we use to enable individuals to not only recognise power dynamics but to act on them, both individually and collectively?

My name is Séréna Aupoix and with my background in Feminist Political Ecology, I aim to bring more embodied, context-specific, and participatory methodologies to the POTRANSI research project. As POTRANSI engages with language to discuss the abstract and complex concepts of power and transformation, it can make conversations about the situated and lived experiences of power or transformation feel hard and inaccessible, as individuals may lack the language to express them. Methodologies that are participatory, transdisciplinary, and not solely based on language can offer alternatives forms of knowing and sensemaking. 

I am specifically interested in photovoice as an alternative form of doing and sensemaking. I believe that photovoice holds potential for more relational, embodied, and situated understandings of power. It can pluralise power by inviting alternative epistemologies, making strange how we relate to power (Baibarac-Duignan & van den Eijnden, 2025). When understandings of power are pluralised and expressed through context-specific examples, this can foster a more accessible form of communication that brings everyday struggles and resistance to the forefront. It can also empower individuals to recognise and transform existing power dynamics. This quest insight therefore delves into the methodology of photovoice.

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