scholarly journals Addressing Pluvial Flash Flooding through Community-Based Collaborative Research in Tijuana, Mexico

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen A. Goodrich ◽  
Victoria Basolo ◽  
David L. Feldman ◽  
Richard A. Matthew ◽  
Jochen E. Schubert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
End Users ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Flash Flooding ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Collaborative Modeling ◽  
Emergency Management Planning

Pluvial flash flooding (PFF) is a growing hazard facing cities around the world as a result of rapid urbanization and more intense precipitation from global warming, particularly for low-resourced settings in developing countries. We present collaborative modeling (CM) as an iterative process to meet diverse decision-making needs related to PFF through the co-production of flood hazard models and maps. CM resulted in a set of flood hazard maps accessible through an online viewer that end-users found useful and useable for understanding PFF threats, including debris blockages and barriers to mobility and evacuation. End-users of information included individuals concerned with general flood awareness and preparedness, and involved in infrastructure and emergency management, planning, and policy. CM also showed that rain-on-grid hydrodynamic modeling is needed to depict PFF threats in ways that are intuitive to end-users. These outcomes evidence the importance and transferability of public health rationale for community-based research and principles used here including recognizing community as a unit of identity, building on strengths of the community, and integrating knowledge for the benefit of all partners.

Collecting Folk Histories

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-75
Author(s):  
William S. Walker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Public History ◽  
New York State ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Student Community ◽  
History Of

This article explores the shared intellectual tradition in folklore, public history, and oral history of involving students in community-based field research. This case study of the collaborative research New York State folklorist Harold W. Thompson and his students undertook in the 1930s contributes to ongoing efforts to enrich our understanding of public history’s genealogy. It also demonstrates that a counter-tradition to the “lone genius” model of humanities research emerged through faculty-student community-based research projects in history and folklore.

scholarly journals Creating space for negotiating the nature and outcomes of collaborative research projects with Aboriginal communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Comprehensive Collection ◽  
Western Arctic ◽  
Communicative Space

This article investigates intellectual property and ethical issues involved in negotiating research processes and outcomes in collaborative projects with Aboriginal communities. A series of ideas are outlined to lay a foundation for thinking about ways to create a conceptual space for open and constructive discussions between research partners. Habermas’s notion of “communicative space” is applied to a partnership between southern-based anthropologists and members of the Inuvialuit community of the Canadian Western Arctic. This partnership is focused on documenting knowledge about a large and comprehensive collection of ancestral ethnographic objects housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and on disseminating this knowledge in meaningful ways to the Inuvialuit, anthropological, and museum communities. This article presents a suite of methods generated by the research group that lay some useful parameters for designing research and fostering trust and investment among partners. It also discusses the dynamics of community-based research practices and, specifically, methods for conceiving, constructing, and sustaining research projects.

scholarly journals Governing through community-based research: Lessons from the Canadian HIV research sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Guta ◽  
Carol Strike ◽  
Sarah Flicker ◽  
Stuart J Murray ◽  
Ross Upshur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Research Sector ◽  
Hiv Research ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
Scientific Decision

The “general public” and specific “communities” are increasingly being integrated into scientific decision-making. This shift emphasizes “scientific citizenship” and collaboration between interdisciplinary scientists, lay people, and multi-sector stakeholders (universities, healthcare, and government). The objective of this paper is to problematize these developments through a theoretically informed reading of empirical data that describes the consequences of bringing together actors in the Canadian HIV community-based research (CBR) movement. Drawing on Foucauldian “governmentality” the complex inner workings of the impetus to conduct collaborative research are explored. The analysis offered surfaces the ways in which a formalized approach to CBR, as promoted through state funding mechanisms, determines the structure and limits of engagement while simultaneously reinforcing the need for finer grained knowledge about marginalized communities. Here, discourses about risk merge with notions of “scientific citizenship” to implicate both researchers and communities in a process of governance.

scholarly journals Inquiry in Place: Collaborative Research as Strategy for Resistance to Displacement

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antwan Jefferson ◽  
Ben Kirshner
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
The Face

This special issue of The Assembly contains a collection of scholarly articles focused on the phenomena of place and displacement as they occur in and near public education. These articles contribute to the growing field of community-based education research by instigating thought, discourse, and action that deepens the relationships between community members and researchers in the face of social, political, and economic disruption. Each of the articles published in this special issue demonstrates some of what is possible when researchers situate their inquiry in local communities, focus on outcomes and implications of community displacement, and take on community experiences and questions in order to collaborate on the development and design of collaborative, community-based research.

scholarly journals Whose plan is it? The importance of place

2021 ◽  
Vol 10.47389/36 (No 2) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Laurelle Muir
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Emergency Management Planning ◽  
Response And Recovery

The effects of climate change are escalating and developing and maintaining disaster resilience in communities is a major objective. Yet the active involvement of communities as major stakeholders in building their capacity to prepare, respond to and recover from natural hazards has had less focus in emergency management planning. For communities living in hazard-prone areas, the continuity of risk and disaster awareness and the significance of preparation at the local level can be critical to people’s capacity to appropriately respond to disaster events. In 2011, the significant flood event in Brisbane saw community-led response and recovery efforts supported by place-based organisations that traditionally work within communities. However, as communities evolve and change, learnings can dissipate over time. As such, 10 years on from the 2011 floods, how well prepared are communities living in flood-prone areas of Brisbane? This paper outlines how community and stakeholder engagement can develop disaster resilience at the local level. The focus is on strong working relationships between participants in emergency management planning and response including community-based organisations and, by extension, the community.

scholarly journals Governing through community-based research: Lessons from the Canadian HIV research sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Guta ◽  
Carol Strike ◽  
Sarah Flicker ◽  
Stuart J Murray ◽  
Ross Upshur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Research Sector ◽  
Hiv Research ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
Scientific Decision

The “general public” and specific “communities” are increasingly being integrated into scientific decision-making. This shift emphasizes “scientific citizenship” and collaboration between interdisciplinary scientists, lay people, and multi-sector stakeholders (universities, healthcare, and government). The objective of this paper is to problematize these developments through a theoretically informed reading of empirical data that describes the consequences of bringing together actors in the Canadian HIV community-based research (CBR) movement. Drawing on Foucauldian “governmentality” the complex inner workings of the impetus to conduct collaborative research are explored. The analysis offered surfaces the ways in which a formalized approach to CBR, as promoted through state funding mechanisms, determines the structure and limits of engagement while simultaneously reinforcing the need for finer grained knowledge about marginalized communities. Here, discourses about risk merge with notions of “scientific citizenship” to implicate both researchers and communities in a process of governance.

scholarly journals Governing through community-based research: Lessons from the Canadian HIV research sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Myersb
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Research Sector ◽  
Hiv Research ◽  
Funding Mechanisms ◽  
Scientific Decision

The “general public” and specific “communities” are increasingly being integrated into scientific decision-making. This shift emphasizes “scientific citizenship” and collaboration between interdisciplinary scientists, lay people, and multi-sector stakeholders (universities, healthcare, and government). The objective of this paper is to problematize these developments through a theoretically informed reading of empirical data that describes the consequences of bringing together actors in the Canadian HIV community-based research (CBR) movement. Drawing on Foucauldian “governmentality” the complex inner workings of the impetus to conduct collaborative research are explored. The analysis offered surfaces the ways in which a formalized approach to CBR, as promoted through state funding mechanisms, determines the structure and limits of engagement while simultaneously reinforcing the need for finer grained knowledge about marginalized communities. Here, discourses about risk merge with notions of “scientific citizenship” to implicate both researchers and communities in a process of governance.

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