Public Anthropology and the Paradoxes of Participation: Participatory Action Research and Critical Ethnography in Provincial Russia

2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Hemment
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Public Anthropology ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article contributes to discussions of a public anthropology by bringing participatory action research (PAR) into dialogue with anthropology. PAR appears uniquely compatible with the goals of critical ethnography. Deeply concerned with global/structural inequality, it is also attentive to the power relations inherent within the research encounter; its point of departure is the kind of collaboration that the new (critical) ethnography proposes. However, despite these obvious affinities, few anthropologists have engaged PAR. At a time when more and more anthropologists are advocating forms of collaborative research practice, I argue that these two approaches to research can offer each other a great deal and that juxtaposing them is productive. Tracing the stages of her own fieldwork in post-Soviet Russia, the author argues that PAR offers the ethnographer a stance, or a framework to affect public anthropological engagement in the field. Further, it offers a means by which we can bring critical anthropological insights to collaborative projects for social change.

scholarly journals What was Research for the Peasants of Córdoba? Participation in the Early Years of Participatory Action Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Rappaport
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
National Association ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract Reflections on participatory and collaborative research commonly neglect to pay attention to the fact that for community researchers, investigation into their own realities frequently takes forms very different from those of academic scholars. They may use methods that are more explicitly intuitive and may depart from approaches that involve the rigorous collection and systematization of data. This paper explores what research might have meant to the Caribbean peasants of the early 1970s with whom Colombian sociologist Orlando Fals Borda developed his approach to what is today called participatory action research. In particular, it focuses on the field notes of Alfonso Salgado Martínez, a leader of the National Association of Peasant Users-Sincelejo Line (ANUC, Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos-Línea Sincelejo), juxtaposing them to his published work, both read in comparison to Fals Borda's own notes and writings.

Dare we speak of ethics? Attending to the unsayable amongst nurse leaders

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 566-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Schick Makaroff ◽  
Janet Storch ◽  
Lorelei Newton ◽  
Tom Fulton ◽  
Lynne Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Nurse Leaders ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
The Impact

There is increasing emphasis on the need for collaboration between practice and academic leaders in health care research. However, many problems can arise owing to differences between academic and clinical goals and timelines. In order for research to move forward it is important to name and address these issues early in a project. In this article we use an example of a participatory action research study of ethical practice in nursing to highlight some of the issues that are not frequently discussed and we identify the impact of things not-named. Further, we offer our insights to others who wish to be partners in research between academic and practice settings. These findings have wide implications for ameliorating misunderstandings that may develop between nurse leaders in light of collaborative research, as well as for participatory action research.

scholarly journals Escuelas familiares. Una experiencia favorecedora para el desarrollo humano

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Zulema Elisa Rodríguez Triana ◽  
Jazmín Lorena Suárez Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Educational Strategy ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Family Participation ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Developmental Contexts ◽  
The University

La familia y la escuela son contextos de desarrollo para niños y niñas y, aunque comparten intencionalidades de formación, parecen caminar por senderos diferentes. Las escuelas familiares orientadas desde un enfoque de las capacidades y la corresponsabilidad sobre la base de los niños y niñas como titulares de derechos y actuadas mediante alternativas de formación y del fortalecimiento de la participación de la familia en la escuela son, desde la experiencia que deriva esta reflexión, una estrategia socioeducativa que favorece el desarrollo humano de los actores. Se asume una práctica investigativa construida a partir de la Investigación Acción Participante (IAP) en Manizales, Colombia con el acompañamiento de la Universidad de Caldas. Family and school are developmental contexts for boys and girls and, although they share training intentions, they seem to walk different paths. Family schools oriented from a capacities and co-responsibility approach based on children as holders of rights and acted on through training alternatives and strengthening family participation in school are, from the experience that derived this reflection, a socio-educational strategy that favors the human development of the actors. A research practice built from Participatory Action Research (PAR) is held in Manizales, Colombia with the support of the University of Caldas.

scholarly journals Finding a Fale: A collaborative research project with the Tonga Leitis’ Association (TLA) exploring the causes of and solutions to housing insecurity for leiti.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Neill Ballantyne
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research Project

<p><b>This is a collaborative research project where I worked alongside the Tonga Leitis’ Association to conduct semi-structure interviews with 20 leiti into the causes of, and solutions to housing insecurity. I set out to follow a PAR (participatory action research) methodology but was constrained in fully implementing this due to constraints of the project timeline. This project draws on the principles of PAR as well as other indigenous research theories.</b></p> <p>This project contributes to the academy’s understanding of the life and challenges experienced by leiti. It shows that housing insecurity cannot be viewed in isolation but is influenced by many aspects of people’s lives. This is especially true for ‘vulnerable’ minorities such as leiti. This project revealed that leiti experience marginalisation in many ways and showed that they are often survivors of significant levels of violence.</p> <p>This study includes a range of recommendations which are driven from the participant interviews. These actions should create change which would ensure that Tongan society is more inclusive of leiti and would provide leiti with a safe space to reside if they experience violence or oppression.</p>

scholarly journals Diskoerse oor heling in ’n narratief- pastorale benadering

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Müller ◽  
Jaco Putter
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Unique Outcome ◽  
Point Of Departure

Discourses of healing in a narrative-pastoral approach In this article fiction is used as a metaphor. True to the metaphor of fiction, this research was done through participatory action research. Conversations on the subject of healing are researched by investigating written resources and case studies as well as listening to qualified opinions. In order for healing to be widely understood, a diversity of fictional works are offered. By looking at the documented meanings of scientific disciplines and conversations it is crystal clear that healing has become a fashionable word and has apparently always been one. There are various conversations on the topic of healing, ranging from medical, theological, and even alternative perspectives. The research was done in a post- modern society, and the characteristics of this era implemented as such. A unique outcome of this dialogue is the new and fresh understanding of healing as a word which includes the person as a whole and not as a fragmented object. The culmination describes an unique discussion of healing by embracing illness as part of human existence. Brokenness is used as a point of departure in contrast with the illusion of healing.

scholarly journals Dancing with the devil? Participatory action research with police in South Africa

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Marks
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Shared Objective

At the present moment, major changes are being proposed to the way that policing should be done in South Africa. These changes do not seem to be informed by any research agenda or by a long term strategic approach aimed at 'smarter policing'. This paper reflects on the possible partnerships that (academic) researchers and police could form with the shared objective of bring about change in police organisations. These collaborative research arrangements are undoubtedly difficult. Police and academic researchers continue to operate in silos and the two groups have distinctive institutional cultures, which are sometimes at odds with one another. However, as this paper tries to demonstrate, collaborative research is possible. This article is in many ways a personal reflection on my own research collaborations with the police using a participatory action research approach.

scholarly journals Finding a Fale: A collaborative research project with the Tonga Leitis’ Association (TLA) exploring the causes of and solutions to housing insecurity for leiti.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Neill Ballantyne
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research Project

<p><b>This is a collaborative research project where I worked alongside the Tonga Leitis’ Association to conduct semi-structure interviews with 20 leiti into the causes of, and solutions to housing insecurity. I set out to follow a PAR (participatory action research) methodology but was constrained in fully implementing this due to constraints of the project timeline. This project draws on the principles of PAR as well as other indigenous research theories.</b></p> <p>This project contributes to the academy’s understanding of the life and challenges experienced by leiti. It shows that housing insecurity cannot be viewed in isolation but is influenced by many aspects of people’s lives. This is especially true for ‘vulnerable’ minorities such as leiti. This project revealed that leiti experience marginalisation in many ways and showed that they are often survivors of significant levels of violence.</p> <p>This study includes a range of recommendations which are driven from the participant interviews. These actions should create change which would ensure that Tongan society is more inclusive of leiti and would provide leiti with a safe space to reside if they experience violence or oppression.</p>

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