Prospective Graduate Students / Postdocs
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Shannon Walsh
Associate Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
South Africa
Afropessimism & Critical Race Studies
Documentary
Film Production
Indigenous studies
Environmental justice
Affect Theory
Relevant Thesis-Based Degree Programs
Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
Biography
Shannon Walsh is a filmmaker and an interdisciplinary scholar. She has written and directed five feature documentaries on topics ranging from labour rights to grief and climate change. Her work is known for emphasizing marginalized voices and stories on the front lines of vital contemporary issues. Walsh’s films have been theatrically released internationally and broadcast on networks such as ARTE, Al-Jazeera, CBC, and Netflix. Her work has been screened in festivals globally such as Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, IDFA, Doc NYC, as well as in museums such as the Pompidou Centre, in Paris. As a scholar, she has published works on inequality, social justice, and visual methods. She teaches film as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and is a Research Associate at the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. Walsh is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Research Methodology
Visual Methodologies
Ethnography
Filmmaking
Participatory methods
action research
Graduate Student Supervision
Master's Student Supervision
Theses completed in 2010 or later are listed below. Please note that there is a 6-12 month delay to add the latest theses.
"A conversation" - an experimental documentary exploring autism's influence on memory (2024)
No abstract available.
Persia and I (2023)
No abstract available.
Twelve: story of boy child preference and my family in Nigeria (2022)
No abstract available.
Film thesis: the two of us (2021)
No abstract available.
40 Seconds: a short film exploring representations of mental illness through empowered female characters (2020)
No abstract available.
Publications
- In My Life: Stories from young activists in South Africa 2002-2022 (2022)
Jacana Media / Fanele, - The Gig is Up: A very human tech doc (2021)
Intuitive Pictures (Can) & Point Du Jour (Fra), - Illusions of Control (2019)
What Escapes Production & Last Songbird Productions, - Under the Umbrella: Pedagogy, knowledge production, and video from the margins of the movement (2019)
Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (2), 200-211 - Memory - IN DEFENCE OF FORGETTING (2018)
Memory, - Ties that Bind (2016)
- Ties that Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa (2016)
Wits University Press, - Addressing sexual violence and rape culture: Issues and interventions targeting boys and men (2015)
Agenda, - Hong Kong 2014 : l’étrange révolution des parapluies (2015)
- The Art of Editing (2015)
- The Philosopher and His Poor: The Poor-Black as Object for Political Desire in South Africa (2015)
Politikon, 42 (1), 123-127 - Critiquing the politics of participatory video and the dangerous romance of liberalism (2014)
Area, , n/a--n/a - Film Screening 1: Jeppe on a Friday (2012) + Discussion: Contradictions in the Cracks: Filming with Johannesburg (2014)
- Workshop: The Visible City? Part 2 (2014)
- 'We won't move': The suburbs take back the center in urban Johannesburg (2013)
City, 17 (3), 400-408 - Jeppe on a Friday (2013)
- Managing Crisis and Desire in South Africa (2013)
Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-first Century South Africa., - "We are prepared to die on this land": Race and land occupation in Crossmoor settlement (2012)
The Oriental Anthropologist, 12 (2), 269 - "We grew as we grew": Visual methods, social change and collective learning over time (2012)
South African Journal of Education, 32 (4), 406-415 - Challenging knowledge production with participatory video (2012)
Handbook of Participatory Video, Rowman & Littlefield, New York, , 242--256 - Participatory video, knowledge production and power in a South African shack settlement (2012)
- Visual approaches to social change in South Africa: What difference does it make? (2012)
- St-Henri, the 26th of August (2011)
- The Soft Cover project: youth participation in HIV/AIDS interventions (2011)
Agenda, - Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Xenophobia and Survival in the Post-Apartheid State (2010)
Learning from the Ground Up, , 35--51 - Learning from the Ground Up - Learning from the Ground Up (2010)
- Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change - Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change (2009)
- Ethnography-in-Motion: Neoliberalism and the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa (2009)
Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change, , 181--193 - H2Oil (2009)
- 'Uncomfortable collaborations': Contesting constructions of the 'poor' in South Africa (2008)
Review of African Political Economy, 35 (2), 255-279 - 3. ‘I’m too young to die’: HIV, masculinity, danger, and desire in urban South Africa (2008)
HIV and AIDS, , 20--31 - A Response & An Update (2008)
Review of African Political Economy, 35 (116), 278-279 - Ethical issues in using participatory video in addressing gender violence in and around schools: the challenges of representation (2008)
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, - ‘If you don’t die first’: Fire, Water and Women in the Shack Settlements in Durban (2007)
R, PATTMAN and S, KHAN (eds.), Undressing Durban, Durban, Madiba Publishers, , 156--165 - Behind the lens: Reflexivity and video documentary (2007)
The art of visual inquiry, , 281--294 - Power, race and agency:‘Facing the truth’through visual methodology (2007)
Putting people in the picture, , 241--55 - 'I'm too young to die': HIV, masculinity, danger and desire in urban South Africa (2006)
Gender and Development, 14 (1), 57-68 - Speaking for ourselves: A case for visual arts-based and other participatory methodologies in working with young people to address sexual violence (2006)
Combating gender violence in and around schools, , 103--112 - ‘Losers, Lolitas and Lesbos’: Visualizing Girlhood (2005)
Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood, 245, 191 - "The ground beneath me" : creative vision, youth and HIV/AIDS (2004)
- Artfully engaged: Arts activism and HIV/AIDS work with youth in South Africa (2004)
Provoked by Art: Theorizing Arts-informed Inquiry. Toronto: Backalong Books, - Visualizing the politics of innocence in the age of AIDS (2004)
Sex Education, 4 (1), 35--47 - A blindfold of compassion? Women as pawns in the new war (2002)
Feminist Media Studies, 2 (1), 153-155
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