Engaged Communication Scholarship for Environmental Justice: A Research Agenda

Raphael, Chad

doi:10.1080/17524032.2019.1591478

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“…Thus, repair cafés are a bridge to the culture of 'making' in which some makers are 'critical makers' [43] and part of a do-it-yourself (DIY) activism [58]. Others may 'just' be DIY citizens [48] in a DIY culture [65] and a 'making culture' [58]. One may say that for the 'critical makers', repair cafés may constitute a local sustainability initiative (LSI) [48,63], and for others, repair cafés may 'just' constitute 'community workshops'or 'makerspaces' [56].…”

Section: Subculture Of the Repairersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior to this, the founder had applied for funding from the Dutch Ministry for the Environment-a subsidy for environmental activities aimed at fostering innovative environmental thinking [12] (pp. [64][65]. These funds enabled Martine Potsma to establish the Repair Café Foundation, a non-governmental organisation that provides information and guidance to local groups setting up repair cafés in their own neighbourhoods [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Critical Review of the Role of Repair Cafés in a Sustainable Circular Transition

Moalem

Mosgaard

2021

Sustainability

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Extending the useful life of consumer products is a critical element in the circular economy. Although commercial repair is an established part of the global economy, the repair is often conducted informally. This means that non-commercial repair ecosystems exist, including the international network of repair cafés, spreading worldwide to over 2000 repair cafés in 37 countries (April 2021). As the first review on this topic, this article investigates and gains more knowledge about repair cafés, and critically assesses their role as a sustainability initiative, i.e., how the concept may translate into a broader sustainability context. A systematic literature review (2010–2020) was conducted, including 44 articles in descriptive and content analyses. The bibliometric data revealed an increase in the number of publications on repair cafés, particularly over the last four years, indicating that repair cafés as a research topic have started to gain attention, and this is likely to grow in numbers. However, the significant number of different places of publication indicates that this is not (yet) a well-established field with defined research channels. The content analysis revealed that the concept has spread to a range of different contexts, beyond the original scope, influencing the mindset and acts of a broad field of practitioners. This indicates a wide range of possibilities for the expansion of the concept of repair cafés, bringing different expectations on calling into question the future role of repair cafés. However, the aims of the people involved in repair cafés span from the altruistic and strategic, over personal gains, to critical consumer, financial and educational aims. This may challenge repair cafés’ future role(s), i.e., ambitions set by the international organisation of repair cafés. Notably, the ambition for actors at the micro-level is to feed in data on repair and achieve ‘collaborative repair’, as the aims of the people involved are complex, and their expectations lack alignment, both vertically and horizontally.

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Section: Subculture Of the Repairersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Critical Review of the Role of Repair Cafés in a Sustainable Circular Transition

Moalem

Mosgaard

2021

Sustainability

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“…Participatory research is directed by a self-reflexive, critical, ethics-focused approach to research design, conduct, distribution of labour [206] and financial benefits [206][207][208], outputs and impacts [207][208][209][210][211]. Questions of equality, justice and equity are often centred [204,208,210,[212][213][214] and the knowledge produced reflects the lived experience and situated expertise of the participants and communities upon which the research is focused [204,205,215,216]. Further, those that participate in Citizen Science and participatory projects develop scientific expertise that would otherwise be unavailable to them, making them more effective democratic actors who are able to challenge policies, civic expertise, and corporate power in pursuit of justice and equality [204,210,213,[217][218][219][220][221].…”

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confidence: 99%

Dynamics of Cumulative Advantage and Threats to Equity in Open Science - A Scoping Review

Ross-Hellauer¹,

Reichmann²,

Cole³

et al. 2021

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Open Science holds the promise to make scientific endeavours more inclusive, participatory, understandable, accessible, and re-usable for large audiences. However, making processes open will not per se drive wide re-use or participation unless also accompanied by the capacity (in terms of knowledge, skills, financial resources, technological readiness and motivation) to do so. These capacities vary considerably across regions, institutions and demographics. Those advantaged by such factors will remain potentially privileged, putting Open Science’s agenda of inclusivity at risk of propagating conditions of “cumulative advantage”. With this paper, we systematically scope existing research addressing the question: “What evidence and discourse exists in the literature about the ways in which dynamics and structures of inequality could persist or be exacerbated in the transition to Open Science, across disciplines, regions and demographics?” Aiming to synthesise findings, identify gaps in the literature, and inform future research and policy, our results identify threats to equity associated with all aspects of Open Science, including Open Access, Open/FAIR Data, Open Methods, Open Evaluation, Citizen Science, as well as its interfaces with society, industry and policy. Key threats include: stratifications of publishing due to the exclusionary nature of the author-pays model of Open Access; potential widening of the digital divide due to the infrastructure-dependent, highly situated nature of open data practices; risks of diminishing qualitative methodologies as “reproducibility” becomes synonymous with quality; new risks of bias and exclusion in means of transparent evaluation; and crucial asymmetries in the Open Science relationships with industry and the public, which privileges the former and fails to fully include the latter.

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“…Several (academic) traditions have translated these epistemologies into practice, being engaged with participatory modes of collaborating with societal groups and communities. These research strands and their related projects, encountered in a variety of fields-including development, media and cultural institutions, and the environment (with the considerable presence of citizen science in the latter case, see Dickinson & Bonney, 2012)-have a critical, engaged and change-oriented agenda (Joosse et al, 2020), involving non-academic partners in the research process, joining forces with local communities and civil society in their efforts for social change (Endres et al, 2009;Kemmis et al, 2014;Raphael, 2019). Their focus allows, under certain conditions, for maximalist forms of participation.…”

Section: Participation In Knowledge Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Stakeholders to Joint Knowledge Production Partners

Doudaki¹,

Carpentier

2021

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Academic research involving societal partners often approaches the latter as less knowledgeable, not possessing the skills and authority that the academic field has in producing legitimate knowledge. Still, several (academic) traditions have engaged in practices that destabilise the notion of the academia as the exclusive field of knowledge production, albeit not without inconsistencies between theory and practice. Building on this tradition, this article addresses the need to involve societal partners in the start-up phases of projects that aim for participatory knowledge production. Using (autho)ethnography this article reflects on the start-up phase of a research project on environmental communication, which involves a wide range of societal actors. It critically evaluates the participatory intensities of the start-up phase process which involved a series of collaborative decisions on how to structure participation, and reports on the outcomes of this process, namely a set of guiding principles and a toolkit aiming to foster and enable participation.

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Engaged Communication Scholarship for Environmental Justice: A Research Agenda

Cited by 24 publications

References 79 publications

A Critical Review of the Role of Repair Cafés in a Sustainable Circular Transition

A Critical Review of the Role of Repair Cafés in a Sustainable Circular Transition

Dynamics of Cumulative Advantage and Threats to Equity in Open Science - A Scoping Review

From Stakeholders to Joint Knowledge Production Partners

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