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- Title
Limportance de l'aspect relatuonnel dans l'auto-(re)présentation de jeunes Innus de la communaute de Uashat mak Mani-Utenam.
- Authors
Truchon, Karoline
- Abstract
This article presents the underlying principles of what the author call "the relational of the technique". More than 30 young Innus from Uashat mak Mani-Utenam who participated in this project, photographed and discussed positive aspects of their lives rather than putting emphasis on the negative ones. This result constrasts with the majority of images circulated by native and non-native adults about them in the public sphere in which they are victimised and appear to live a miserable life. It is suggested that for these youth the purpose of photography is not to fabricate photographs per Se but rather to present the links with who and what they photograph. This rationale brings us to reflect on what could be the impacts of a quasi-total representation of commodified suffering about First Nations youth. Could this lack of balance in representation of their daily lives forecast the internalisation of these negative portrayals and then contribute to a self-fulfilling prophecy?
- Subjects
NASKAPI (North American people); PHOTOGRAPHY; SOCIAL learning; SELF-fulfilling prophecy; SOCIAL psychology; PHOTOGRAPHS
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2005, Vol 35, Issue 3, p95
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1081924ar