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  "abstract": "Research on hydropower development in Southeast Asia has documented processes of dispossession and environmental change, yet small hydropower projects and their cumulative, everyday impacts on community life remain comparatively underexamined. This article positions photovoice as a methodological intervention into feminist political ecology research on hydropower development in northwest Vietnam. Through a participatory photovoice process, villagers engaged as co-researchers, using photography and collective dialogue to document and interpret lived experiences of socio-ecological change associated with small hydropower projects. The study demonstrates how photovoice foregrounds affective, relational, and intergenerational dimensions of environmental change that are often difficult to capture through conventional political ecology methods. Read through a feminist political ecology lens, participants' photographs and narratives reveal experiences of solastalgia, intersectional and intergenerational inequalities, and everyday practices of resilience, resistance, and reworking. Rather than presenting definitive claims about hydropower impacts, the article treats these insights as generative methodological provocation for re-examining participation, power, and lived experience in political ecology research. Participants' reflections further highlight how photovoice reshaped conditions of participation and knowledge production by enabling authorship over representation, fostering critical reflection, and supporting collective sense-making. The article concludes by arguing that photovoice is both methodological and contextually suited to addressing the under-visibility of small hydropower impacts and contributes to ongoing debates on participatory, feminist, and visual methodologies in resource governance research.",
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  "published": "2026-11-01",
  "publisher": "University of Arizona Libraries",
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  "title": "Visualizing water struggles: Using Photovoice for research and community empowerment in northwest Vietnam",
  "title_text": "Visualizing water struggles: Using Photovoice for research and community empowerment in northwest Vietnam",
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  "venue": "Journal of Political Ecology",
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