Analysis of Participatory Action Research as a Decolonial Research Methodology

Omodan, Bunmi Isaiah; Dastile, Nontyatyambo Pearl

doi:10.3390/socsci12090507

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“…The call for more inclusive epistemological frameworks extends beyond mere critique; it emphasizes the development of collaborative research models that empower scholars from the Global South. Initiatives like participatory action research (PAR) highlight the potential for equitable research partnerships that respect local knowledge and expertise while pursuing scientifically rigorous outcomes ( Omodan and Dastile, 2023 ). Such models prioritize reciprocal learning and shared decision-making, thereby challenging paternalistic dynamics that have historically characterized some cross-cultural research endeavors.…”

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Advancing equity in cross-cultural psychology: embracing diverse epistemologies and fostering collaborative practices

Anjum,

Aziz

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Psychology, and cross-cultural psychology (CCP) in particular, plays a pivotal role in understanding the intricate relationship between culture and human behavior. This paper sheds light on the challenges of inequity and marginalization, especially concerning scholarship from the Global South, which have roots in historical colonial practices. It highlights how intellectual extractivism and the predominance of Western research methodologies often overlook the contributions of Global South scholars and indigenous ways of knowing. Such imbalances risk narrowing the scope of psychological inquiry, privileging American and European perspectives, and undermining the richness of global human experiences. This paper calls for a shift toward more equitable collaborations and the recognition of diverse epistemologies. By advocating for genuine representation in research and valuing local knowledge, it proposes pathways for a more inclusive and authentic exploration of human behavior across cultures.

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Advancing equity in cross-cultural psychology: embracing diverse epistemologies and fostering collaborative practices

Anjum,

Aziz

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Reflections on an engaged research approach to understanding patient record-keeping systems in a local clinic in Makhanda

Kingwill,

Todd,

Davy

et al. 2024

Afr. J. High. Educ. Community Engagem.

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The taking and archiving of accurate record-keeping is an essential part of caregiving in health care. There is extensive evidence that record-keeping systems are affected by systemic problems that impact healthcare provision globally and in South Africa, particularly in public healthcare. Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) has been applied in healthcare settings to address these systemic challenges, including those related to record keeping, but not in South Africa. With participation being a critical element of HFE, a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) framework can but has not been used to understand and optimise systems such as those linked to record keeping. This reflection provides an overview of how an HFE approach was applied, using a CBPR framework to understand the challenges affecting patient record-keeping in a clinic in Makhanda. Specifically, it provides insights into how CBPR was applied and reflections on this experience from both the researchers’ and collaborators' perspectives. The importance of patience and flexibility, empathy, constant feedback and consultation and listening to collaborators' and participants' contributions emerged as important lessons. The community collaborator also experienced the process positively, where she emphasised the empowering experience of being able to help guide and facilitate research, which, in turn, revealed challenges that affected the daily running of the clinic. The collaboration using the CBPR approach was a practical framework for applying several HFE approaches to understand the challenges around record keeping.

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“No one talks about it”: using emotional methodologies to overcome climate silence and inertia in Higher Education

Pigott,

Nuuttila,

Thomas

et al. 2024

Front. Sociol.

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Higher Education (HE) is, at best, struggling to rise to the challenges of the climate and ecological crises (CEC) and, at worst, actively contributing to them by perpetuating particular ways of knowing, relating, and acting. Calls for HE to radically transform its activities in response to the polycrises abound, yet questions about how this will be achieved are often overlooked. This article proposes that a lack of capacity to express and share emotions about the CEC in universities is at the heart of their relative climate silence and inertia. We build a theoretical and experimental justification for the importance of climate emotions in HE, drawing on our collective experience of the Climate Lab project (2021–2023), a series of in-person and online workshops that brought together scientists, engineers, and artists. We analyse the roles of grief, vulnerability, and creativity in the conversations that occurred, and explore these exchanges as potential pathways out of socially organised climate denial in neoliberal institutions. By drawing on the emerging field of “emotional methodologies,” we make a case for the importance of emotionally reflexive practices for overcoming an institutionalised disconnect between feeling and knowing, especially in Western-disciplinary contexts. We suggest that if staff and students are afforded opportunities to connect with their emotions about the CEC, then institutional transformation is (a) more likely to happen and be meaningfully sustained and (b) less likely to fall into the same problematic patterns of knowledge and action that perpetuate these crises. This profound, sometimes uncomfortable, emotionally reflexive work is situated in the wider context of glimpsing decolonial futures for universities, which is an integral step towards climate and ecological justice.

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Analysis of Participatory Action Research as a Decolonial Research Methodology

Cited by 5 publications

References 46 publications

Advancing equity in cross-cultural psychology: embracing diverse epistemologies and fostering collaborative practices

Advancing equity in cross-cultural psychology: embracing diverse epistemologies and fostering collaborative practices

Reflections on an engaged research approach to understanding patient record-keeping systems in a local clinic in Makhanda

“No one talks about it”: using emotional methodologies to overcome climate silence and inertia in Higher Education

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