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Volume 4, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2634-1123
  • E-ISSN: 2634-1131

Abstract

This photo essay shares the thoughts and observations of a group of volunteers and community activists with All Together in Dignity (ATD) Ireland, who took part in walking interviews. The walks, which were individually curated by each participant, were shared with Joe Whelan, a researcher based in the School of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College, the University of Dublin, as part of a study which aimed to interrogate lived experiences and hidden geographies of poverty in the city of Dublin, the capital city of Ireland. Over the course of each walk, the participants, who are all people with lived and continuing experiences of poverty, made sociological observations which they connected to politics and social policy. Participants also took photographs as the walks proceeded. Some of this testimony along with the participant photography is documented in this essay. The essay includes a short reflection from one of the research participants, Andrew, and finishes with a brief discussion.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • The New Foundations Grant Scheme (Award NF/2022/38295072)
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