Integrating participatory action research into graduate geography studies: a tale of two dissertations

Bengle, Tara; Schuch, Johanna Claire

doi:10.1080/03098265.2018.1514589

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“…While many scholars, including those in feminist and postcolonial research areas, continue to develop more embodied and critical qualitative methodologies (Delyser et al, 2009), relatively less attention has been given to considering how these methods are enacted in the field. The complex and often unforeseen emotions researchers experience when the rhetoric of PR is put into practice are relatively unremarked upon (Bengle & Schuch, 2018; Sharp & Dowler, 2011).…”

Section: The Complexity and ‘Messiness’ Of Fieldworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory research in practice: Understandings of power and embodied methodologies

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Participatory research (PR) has been increasingly used by geographers and other social scientists in recent decades. However, in practice PR often departs from the transformative and empowering characteristics that define it. This article uses candid reflections on the first author's attempt at PR to highlight areas where the under‐theorisation of the complexities of fieldwork and the co‐constitutive nature of research and emotions could be contributing to such depoliticised practice. Some problematic aspects of how power is understood in PR are also discussed, echoing the call from proponents of participation at large for more coherent frameworks to understand power relations.

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Section: The Complexity and ‘Messiness’ Of Fieldworkmentioning

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Participatory research in practice: Understandings of power and embodied methodologies

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“…Participatory approaches have long been influential in a number of disciplines seeking to connect scholarly inquiry actively with the subjects of study, communities being investigated, and in service of broader goals to better the world. We see numerous examples of this orientation, from the participatory rural appraisal (PRA) strategies of international development work beginning in the 1960s (Chambers 1994 ) to the catalytic nature of community-based projects in social work (Rubins and Babbie 2011 ), from attempts to destabilize hierarchies between researcher and researched in education (Cammarota 2017 ) to the interventionist goals of Participatory Action Research (PAR) in a range of disciplines (Bengle and Schuch 2018 ).…”

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confidence: 99%