Participatory Action Research with ‘Minority Communities’ and the Complexities of Emancipatory Tensions: Intersectionality and cultural affinity

Sallah, Momodou

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“…On the other hand, as stated by some authors, the tools and the techniques used during the analysis (interviews, discussion groups, workshops, and social mapping) encouraged reflection, dialogue, and awareness of the problems they faced (McAllan, 2015;Sallah, 2014). In this regard, PAR promotes a link between reflection and action as a continuous process where participants learn from their own experiences, which allows them to take change into their own hands (Wilson, Ho & Walsh, 2007).…”

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“…Por otra parte, los instrumentos y técnicas que se utilizaron durante el desarrollo del diagnóstico (entrevistas, grupos de discusión, talleres, mapeo social) como así lo señalan algunos autores propiciaron la reflexión, el diálogo y la toma de conciencia sobre los problemas que les afectaban (McAllan, 2015;Sallah, 2014). En este sentido, la IAP promueve la conexión entre la reflexión y la acción como proceso continúo donde los participantes aprenden de sus propias experiencias, lo que les permite tomar la propiedad del cambio (Wilson, Ho & Walsh, 2007).…”

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La investigación acción participativa en procesos de desarrollo comunitario: una experiencia de cooperación interuniversitaria en el barrio de Jesús María, La Habana Vieja (Cuba)

Aguilar

Ruiz²

2015

Ped Soc. Rev Int

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RESUMEN: La experiencia que presentamos forma parte de un Proyecto de Cooperación Interuniversitario que tiene como objetivo promover un proceso de sensibilización, concienciación y participación comunitaria en torno a la problemática del agua en el barrio de Jesús María del Municipio de La Habana Vieja, Cuba. Partiendo de un enfoque crítico, emancipador y transformador de la realidad se lleva a cabo una investigación-acción-participativa que cuenta con varias fases en las que se desarrollan diferentes procesos de acción-reflexión, en los que participan investigadores, actores locales y vecinos del barrio, en la identificación de los problemas de acceso y gestión del agua, y en la elaboración de propuestas y acciones de mejora en torno a este recurso natural. La realización de la investigación visibiliza, por un lado, el enorme potencial del territorio en la producción de conocimiento, y en la vinculación de éste con la acción social. Y por otro, el papel de las universidades en el fortalecimiento de las estructuras locales y comunitarias, desde la puesta en común de conocimientos interdisciplinares y metodologías de trabajo que permiten obtener soluciones integrales y acordes a las necesidades de sus beneficiarios. ABSTRACT: This paper presents part of an inter-university cooperation project which aims to create a process of awareness and community participation concerning the issue of water in the Jesus Maria neighborhood in the municipality of Cuba´s Old Havana. Based on a critical, emancipatory and transforming approach of reality we conducted participatory action research -which has several stages which develops different processes such as action-reflection, involving researchers, neighbors and neighborhood representatives, in the identification of access problems and water management, and in the preparation of proposals and improvement actions regarding this natural resource. On the one hand the research shows, the enormous potential of the territory in the production of knowledge, and linking it to social action, and secondly, the role of universities in strengthening local community structures, from sharing interdisciplinary knowledge and work methodologies that will enable us to obtain integral solutions according to the needs of its beneficiaries.KEYWORDS: Participation, University, community, action research, gender.RESUMO: A experiência que apresentamos forma parte de um Projeto de Cooperação Interuniversitaria que tem como objetivo promover um processo de sensibilização, conscientização e participação da Comunidade em torno da problemática da água no bairro de Jesus Maria da Cidade antiga de Havana, Cuba. Desde um enfoque crítico, emancipado e transformador da realidade, se realizará uma pesquisa-ação-participativa com várias fases nas quais se desenvolverão diferentes processos de ação-reflexão. Nestes processos participam conjuntamente pesquisadores, atores locais e vizinhos do bairro na identificação dos problemas de acesso e administração da água, e também na preparação de propostas e ações de m...

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La investigación acción participativa en procesos de desarrollo comunitario: una experiencia de cooperación interuniversitaria en el barrio de Jesús María, La Habana Vieja (Cuba)

Aguilar

Ruiz²

2015

Ped Soc. Rev Int

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“…There was an impetus to change their lifestyles, recognize the physical complications of diabetes and become more assertive when engaging with health care practitioners. A core epistemological assumption of intersectionality is that knowledge development is from the perspective of the oppressed (McCall, 2009 ; Sallah, 2014 ) and it is a powerful concept for explaining inequality, social determinants of health and power structure.…”

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Guyanese Women's Experiences of Invisibility in Health Care in England

Mitchell

2020

Front. Sociol.

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This article explores the opportunities for strengthening participatory action research (PAR) through an intersectionality framework. In 2015, I completed a Ph.D. study into the lived experiences of migrant Guyanese women, living in England, when seeking diagnoses and treatment for Type 2 diabetes. Group storytelling acted as a lens for the women to talk about how they tried to obtain a diagnosis, in addition to their migratory experiences. Both PAR and intersectionality encourage participant collaboration and community engagement of oppressed groups. The article concludes that the PAR study would have been enhanced by overlaying it with an intersectionality framework. The argument is presented that by doing so the women's accounts in the research study would have been privileged more and activism encouraged in bringing about change to current practices and avoiding perpetuating existing oppressions. The Ph.D. study methodology was based on Koch's interpretation of PAR. In this, PAR is used where the focus is on participation of all stakeholders toward reform and change. It is seen as a social, practical and collaborative process where building relationships with participants is crucial. Intersectionality acknowledges the potential for "black" and other women of color to not remain on the margins but to challenge the traditional biomedical model of health care delivery. Implementing an intersectional approach to the data generation and analysis would have acknowledged power dynamics (i.e., privilege and oppression) and help to identify potential gaps in diabetic provision which are currently invisible or inequitable due to interventions designed to meet the needs of a homogeneous White middle class society.

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“…An intersectional feminist participatory approach was adopted for many reasons: to centre voice (Billo and Heimstra, 2017) and storytelling (Letherby, 2003; Smart, 2014); to situate participants in the research; to co-construct meaning (Sallah, 2014; Wilkinson and Wilkinson, 2017) and to enable the appearance of an authentic, or rather, decolonised self. This approach was underpinned by a hauntological (Gordon, 2008) lens which emerged from the shared narratives.…”

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Creating diversification through hybrid identities and educational encounters: the power of a third space

Kaur

2022

QRJ

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PurposeThis paper explores the contextual factors that support the necessity of a diversified curriculum. The author draws on the findings of the author's doctoral research to consider the complexities underpinning the educational narratives of South Asian Muslim women. The paper critically examines South Asian Muslim women's position as migrant daughters and how South Asian Muslim women navigated colonial systems and the practices and behaviours inherent in these. Situated in a racialised inner-city area with a framing by policymakers as one that creates spatial anxiety, participants shared empowered and agentic narratives. These demonstrated a resistance to the othering and stigma that often ensues through stereotyping.Design/methodology/approachThe project adopted a feminist participatory approach and made use of hauntology as both a theoretical and methodological framework. In keeping with this, four participants who had grown up in the area and still lived there were spoken in the form of research conversations, a walking tour and photographs of significant sites.FindingsThe paper provides empirical insights into how these four participants encountered education. By frequenting both formal and informal educational settings, these spaces became a crucial third space which alleviated unsettlement though allowing a more embodied occupation with learning. Teachers played a critical role in cultivating appropriate and supportive environments and were described and inferred to be moral agents and figures who assisted participants' navigation of a space, often embodying a more mentor-like disposition. Teachers proved to embody a practical wisdom, acting as anchors for offering spaces in and outside of the classroom that invited occupation and construction. Such spaces at school enabled the encountering of difference through recognising first the similarities with peers. Whether these commonalities were cultural or otherwise, those commonalities provided a firm foundation from which to imagine and push the parameters of the space and identity, and so school was likely another crucial space for hybridity.Research limitations/implicationsThe research approach is specific to the context(s), narratives and migratory moment of the participants, and although participants' accounts have been re-storied to honour participants' voices, the accounts may lack generalisability. The paper raises two key implications: first, by recognising educational settings as a third space for students to create a hybrid identity, and second, through familial, community and navigational capitals which have the potential to shift the pedagogical approaches underpinning the conditions created for students.Originality/valuePointing out that hybrid identities without the frequenting of space are hauntological is crucial, and hybrid identities cannot reconcile cultural differences because hybrid identities are out of place, and without location, hybrid identities remain troubled and alienated. This is a situation that the author describes as cultural hauntology – a condition which draws on both hybridity and hauntology to illuminate unsettlement long after colonisation. The native culture is never fully banished or forgotten. The native culture exists behind the closed doors of homes, within communities and perhaps even within the demarcation lines of a given geographical area. Cultural hauntology comes about as a deep-seated internal colonisation that appears as traces, marks and murmurs that cannot be deleted. Perhaps what alleviated the extent of what might have been more extreme in cultural hauntology's dissonance, were the teachers, mentors and role models that participants repeatedly referenced as agents that bridged and enabled the participants.

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Participatory Action Research with ‘Minority Communities’ and the Complexities of Emancipatory Tensions: Intersectionality and cultural affinity

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

La investigación acción participativa en procesos de desarrollo comunitario: una experiencia de cooperación interuniversitaria en el barrio de Jesús María, La Habana Vieja (Cuba)

La investigación acción participativa en procesos de desarrollo comunitario: una experiencia de cooperación interuniversitaria en el barrio de Jesús María, La Habana Vieja (Cuba)

Guyanese Women's Experiences of Invisibility in Health Care in England

Creating diversification through hybrid identities and educational encounters: the power of a third space

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