Researching Displacement Together: Co-Producing Knowledge with Women in Colombia

This book showcases how to co-produce research when we are unable to meet in the same geographical space. It details a remote and hybrid audio-visual participatory methodology through which women share their experiences of displacement, gender, and the city.

Writing as researchers and filmmakers in the UK and Colombia, alongside 24 displaced women in Bogotá and Medellín, this participatory audio-visual project explores displacement from the women’s perspectives. The book is innovative in its collaborative writing and its combination of audio-visual and textual material. It presents a methodology for remote and hybrid research, advocating for more inclusive, equitable, and decolonising research interactions. Through three co-written chapters, it contributes to themes of displacement, gender, and the city, as displaced women share testimonies and audio-visual outputs, revealing experiences of violence, conflict, and aspirations for change as they rebuild their lives.

This book stands out for its collaborative authorship and integration of text with audio-visual material, offering rich insights. It will interest researchers and practitioners working inside and outside universities who are interested in developing remote, hybrid, and audio-visual participatory methodologies, as well as those who want to understand more about displacement and the challenges of urban resettlement from women’s perspectives.

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The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license.

Sonja Marzi is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands and she holds a Visiting Fellow Position at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research contributes to better understand women’s resistance to violence, activism, and their urban challenges in contexts of conflict and crisis.

Rachel Pain is Professor of Human Geography at Newcastle University, UK. Her research centres on gender-based violence, disasters and recovery and urban trauma using participatory action research. She recently co-authored Critically Engaging Participatory Action Research (with Sara Kindon/Mike Kesby 2025) and Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters (with Nahid Rezwana 2023).

Jen Tarr is Senior Lecturer in Social Science Research Methods and Director of Researcher Education and Development at Newcastle University, UK. She is a health sociologist by background and her research centres around visual and digital methods and ethics.