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Social Photo-Elicitation: The Use of Communal Production of Meaning to Hear a Vulnerable Population
Aakash Gautam, Chandani Shrestha, Deborah Tatar +1
We report on an initial ethnographic exploration of the situation of sex-trafficking survivors in Nepal. In the course of studying trafficking survivors in a protected-living situa…
Empowering Participation Within Structures of Dependency
Aakash Gautam, Deborah Tatar
Participatory Design (PD) seeks political change to support people's democratic control over processes, solutions, and, in general, matters of concern to them. A particular challen…
p for political: Participation Without Agency Is Not Enough
Aakash Gautam, Deborah Tatar
Participatory Design's vision of democratic participation assumes participants' feelings of agency in envisioning a collective future. But this assumption may be leaky when dealing…
Crafting, Communality, and Computing: Building on Existing Strengths To Support a Vulnerable Population
Aakash Gautam, Deborah Tatar, Steve Harrison
In Nepal, sex-trafficking survivors and the organizations that support them have limited resources to assist the survivors in their on-going journey towards reintegration. We take…