Co-creation Is Not for the Faint of Heart

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Research Article| March 01 2020 Co-creation Is Not for the Faint of Heart: Musings from an Evolving Field Brenda Longfellow Brenda Longfellow Brenda Longfellow has published widely on documentary, feminist film theory, and Canadian cinema. She co-edited (with Scott MacKenzie and Tom Waugh) The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (2013) and co-edited (with Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, and Janine Marchessault) Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women Filmmakers (1992). Notable documentaries include the interactive project OFFSHORE (2013–15), Weather Report (2008), Tina in Mexico (2002), Shadowmaker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998), A Balkan Journey (1996), and Our Marilyn (1987). She is also a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University, Toronto. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (1): 54–60. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471010 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brenda Longfellow; Co-creation Is Not for the Faint of Heart: Musings from an Evolving Field. Afterimage 1 March 2020; 47 (1): 54–60. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471010 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Since 2018, I have been developing a series of documentary projects on women and incarceration that embeds co-creation into its core methodological and political frame. This work is a collaboration between the Centre for Restorative Justice at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, British Columbia) and the Immersive Storylab at York University (Toronto), co-directed by my research partner, Brenda Morrison, and myself. From the beginning, we understood that because of the very complex histories and unique social vulnerabilities of the women we would be working with, our process had to be deeply relational, networked, and organically collaborative, particularly as a substantial percentage of the women would be Indigenous. In Canada, although Indigenous women account for less than 5 percent of the female population, they make up 39 percent of women in federal institutions and 50–100 percent of women in some provincial, territorial, and remand centers. As criminologist Lisa Monchalin (Algonquin, Métis) argues,... You do not currently have access to this content.