Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) as an Emancipatory Modality Promoting Social Transformation, Empowerment, Agency, and Activism

Taliep, Naiema; Bulbulia, Samed; Lazarus, Sandy; Seedat, Mohamed

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“…I have participated in research on promising and best practices for prevention and safety promotion (Bender et al, 2002). In iterative practices of this work, we have assumed a critical turn to think about the politics underlying the science–policy nexus and the development of dignifying forms of community-based interventions (Malherbe et al, 2022; Seedat & Suffla, 2017 ; Stevens et al, 2003; Taliep et al, 2022).…”

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What Do Professors Do? Posthumous Letter of Love to Ma

Seedat

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Assuming an autoethnographic orientation and a shifting performative lettering style, I write posthumously to my mother in response to her question, what do professors do? The letter is a reflexive contribution to contemporary decolonial debates about unrelenting forms of colonizing knowledge, ways of overturning exclusionary credentialing systems, and liberatory modes of knowledge creation. Engaging with the epistemology of the heart, I write to Ma about the fecundity of silence and being a stranger; the (re)making of critical compassionate space in academia; the tenuous movements between different epistemologies; the slipperiness of language and the ambiguities inherent to connecting diverse socio-epistemic worlds; as well as her legacy of socio-epistemic agency. Perhaps communities of insurgent scholars and activists and those who hold humanizing imaginaries in their bosoms may read my letter as an invitation to embrace the heart as the catalytic organ of, and for discernment, comprehension, contemplation, radical agency, and epistemic love.

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“…This approach acknowledges that citizens are not just key resources, stakeholders or social actors in research processes, but that they are equal co-producers of knowledge and research outcomes that in the long run bring about just social transformation (Taliep, Bulbulia, Lazarus, Seedat & Building Bridges Team, 2022). The model (see Figure 1) therefore provides a framework that can help to disentangle epistemological and ontological biases, and to disrupt and transform conformist ways of learning, deliberating and knowing by "un-silencing" marginalised voices, affirming, and validating local knowledges through exercising critical reflexivity as outsiders, and giving due consideration to power dynamics and knowledge hegemony in knowledge production and decision-making processes (Taliep et al, 2022). (5) awareness and advocacy; and (6) sustainability (see Figure 1).…”

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“…The model can be considered transformational as it transgresses symbolic engagement and empowerment activities, reflecting reciprocal processes across a continuum ranging from consultation to involvement and engagement. It is grounded in the values of social and epistemic justice, empowerment, criticality, equity and social transformation (Bulbulia et al, 2018;Chávez, Minkler, Wallerstein & Spencer, 2007;Freire, 1970;Taliep et al, 2022), which inform all the community engagement phases and activities. This model reflects a participatory two-way process, where there is an explicit emphasis on co-learning and co-construction of knowledge, co-ownership, critical reflexivity, and challenging power imbalances.…”

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“…Locals are often disenchanted and weary of outsiders who make empty promises and exit once they have completed their research, often with little to no benefit to the community (Bulbulia et al, 2018;Taliep et al, 2022). Community members' refusal to participate in three renewable energy technology projects in India was ascribed to a lack of trust in such projects (Pandey & Sharma, 2021).…”

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“…Capacity building strategies aimed at furthering individual and collective abilities and building community infrastructure should be included in project planning to strengthen their capacities (Lazarus, Taliep, Bulbulia, Phillips & Seedat, 2012;Momsen & Taliep, 2018). In this approach, power is shared, capacities are built through participatory learning exchanges and mentorship, and democratic decision-making on all levels within a social justice framework is foregrounded (Taliep et al, 2022). Establishing community advisory boards or committees will increase democratic community participation, and community capacitation can boost self-sufficiency and proficiency and engender ownership commitment from the outset (Bulbulia et al, 2018).…”

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Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) as an Emancipatory Modality Promoting Social Transformation, Empowerment, Agency, and Activism

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