6. Action and Participatory Research: A Case of Peasant Organization

Gianotten, Vera; Wit, Theo de

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“…For those who do express in their research a commitment to social justice, the nature of such a commitment depends in part on the setting. One researcher may work in an industrial setting to facilitate participatory design, which is supposed to lead to better conditions for workers in a particular industry (e.g., Ehn, 1988); another may work with the unemployed or underemployed to help change social and economic conditions (e.g., Gianotten & de Wit, 1991); another may work with a long-shot politician to try to change the system from within (e.g., Faber, 2002). For the critical action research that we report here, we promoted people's access to "the mechanisms of policy and decisionmaking" (Sullivan & Porter, 1997, p. 115) by providing third-party reviews of the Corps's dredging and storage plans-reviews that citizens could use when formulating their own responses to the plans.…”

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Action Research and Wicked Environmental Problems

Blythe

Grabill

Riley

2008

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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The authors report on a 3-year action-research project designed to facilitate public involvement in the planned dredging of a canal and subsequent disposal of the dredged sediments. Their study reveals ways that community members struggle to define the problem and work together as they gather, share, and understand data relevant to that problem. The authors argue that the primary goal of action research related to environmental risk should be to identify and support the strategies used by community members rather than to educate the public. The authors maintain that this approach must be supported by a thorough investigation of basic rhetorical issues (audience, genre, stases, invention), and they illustrate how they used this approach in their study.

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