@article{Richardson-Ngweny_2015, title={The affective ethics of participatory video: an exploration of inter-personal encounters}, volume={11}, url={https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/933}, abstractNote={This paper develops a geographical understanding of ethics by drawing from the author’s experiences during a participatory video (PV) project in Barbados. This project framed and informed a partial understanding of the ethical geographies of Caribbean sugar at large (Richardson-Ngwenya, 2009). Taking inspiration from interactions with sugar workers in Barbados, I engage here with ethics at the level of the inter-personal. Dealing with a key question that emerges from a geographical or embedded approach to ethics (Meskell and Pels, 2005), the paper addresses how we can understand ethics through inter-personal interactions. I conclude by reflecting on the apparent problem of translating the singularity of encounters into more general ethical statements (cf. Barnett, 2005). Instead of treating this as a problem, I argue that inter-personal ethics of encounter are not, in actuality, singular events but are inter-connected and mediated events within a network of wider interactions, both transpersonal and transnational. I explore how, in this case of participatory video, ethical relations are affective, not only in the proximate spaces of group interaction but also across great spatio-temporal distances.}, number={2}, journal={ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies}, author={Richardson-Ngweny, Pamela}, year={2015}, month={Mar.}, pages={250–281} }