Poetry in a Pocket

In this chapter we explore what we choose to call the everyday poetics1 of rural teachers as expressed through the production of cellphilms, or, as we refer to them here, pocket films, in recognition of the ever-present mobile phone that fits easily into

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What’s a Cellphilm? Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Participatory Visual Research and Activism

Edited by Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder and Joshua Schwab-Cartas McGill University, Canada

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ISBN: 978-94-6300-571-5 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-572-2 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-573-9 (e-book)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgmentsvii What’s a Cellphilm? An Introduction Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder and Joshua Schwab-Cartas

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Part I: Cellphilms from the Professional to the Personal 1. Poetry in a Pocket: The Cellphilms of South African Rural Women Teachers and the Poetics of the Everyday Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane

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2. Smaller Lens, Bigger Picture: Exploring Self-Generated Cellphilms in Participatory Research Caitlin Watson, Shanade Barnabas and Keyan Tomaselli

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3. Living Our Language: Zapotec Elders and Youth Fostering Intergenerational Dialogue through Cellphone Videos Joshua Schwab-Cartas

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4. Remaining Anonymous: Using Participatory Arts-Based Methods with Migrant Women Workers in the Age of the Smartphone Vivian Wenli Lin

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Part II: Cellphilming as Pedagogy 5. Student A/r/tographers Creating Cellphilms Sean Wiebe and Claire Caseley Smith

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6. Cellphilms, Teachers, and HIV and AIDS Education: Revisiting Digital Voices Using the Framework of TPACK103 Ashley DeMartini and Claudia Mitchell 7. “Safe Injection and Needle Disposal Spaces for UBC! Now!” Collective Reflections on a Cellphilm Workshop Bernard Chan, Bronson Chau, Diana Ihnatovych and Natalie Schembri

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Part III: Cellphilm Dissemination and Audiences 8. Facing Responses to Cellphilm Screenings of African Girlhood in Academic Presentations Katie MacEntee v

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9. We Are HK Too: Disseminating Cellphilms in a Participatory Archive Casey Burkholder

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Part IV: Cellphilm Technologies and Aesthetics 10. The Evolution of the Cellphone as Film and Video Camera Lukas Labacher

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11. Visual Culture, Aesthetics, and the Ethics of Cellphilming April R. Mandrona

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12. Where Do We Go from Here? A Conclusion Joshua Schwab-Cartas, Katie MacEntee and Casey Burkholder

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Index211

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank all the contributors: Shanade Barnabas, Naydene de Lange, Ashley DeMartini, Bernard Chan, Bronson Chau, Diana Ihnatovych, Lukas Labacher, Vivian W

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