Breaking silence: exploring motherhood and social transformation in a participatory action research with Alteñan mothers

Feminist geographies and participatory action research: co-producing narratives with people and place

“…Such nuance and complexity is also evident in LindseyCarte and Rebecca Torres' (2014) work, which utilises role-playing to build a geopolitical analysis, in which a PAR of multiple methods uncovers geographies of state power as experienced in women's lives on the Mexico-Guatemala border. As in articles above and below, the need to build trust and develop relationships alert to difficult negotiations of power and subjectivities is evident, the authors creatively engaging with Central American immigrant women and enacting a 'feminist ethics of care'.Discussing the ways in which mothers 'talk back' to denounce injustice, by producing new knowledges and confronting social service practitioners,Isabel Berckmans, Marcela Losantos Velasco and Gerrit Loots (2016) also attend to the personal and social transformational potential of PAR. Understanding research as a journey together with mothers of street children in Bolivia, sharing stories is described here as an opening towards trust, in which listening is crucial as a relational, people-centred feminist methodology.…”