Eduardo Yael González Tamayo He is a teacher in Cultural Studies from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) and a degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). He studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in the area of audiovisual communication, and at the Social Research Institute of the UNAM (exchange and academic stay). He has diplomas in Filmmaking and Appreciation of the Visual Arts. He has collaborated as a research assistant at COLEF and published two chapters in books from the same institution. His interests include studies of masculinities, religion, visual anthropology and cinematography. He is currently teaching a subject at the UABC Faculty of Arts and conducts Turn of the screw, program of cinematographic analysis of the Universidad Iberoamericana Tijuana-CDMX.

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Building hope: the participatory social documentary as a research methodology in an evangelical rehabilitation center in Tijuana. Challenges and learnings

  • Eduardo Yael González Tamayo

Keywords: visual anthropology, ethnographic cinema, participatory social documentary, drugs, masculinities, religion.

The research methodologies that generate social scientific knowledge from the collection of empirical information have diversified thanks to technological advances and transdisciplinarity; Due to this, it is important to reflect on the way in which these disciplinary intersections nurture and complicate the role of sociocultural research. This article seeks to delve into the events, analysis and learning that emerged during the creation of the participatory social documentary Hombres de Esperanza (2017) and its various exhibitions to the general public, academics and experts in visual art. In this way, it is intended to dialogue the artistic discourse with that of the social sciences from the common points that converge in the creation of an ethnographic documentary, which was made in Tijuana and deals with an evangelical rehabilitation center.