Researching with

A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42483-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Personal/Public Scholarship

Many community health interventions fail, wasting tax dollars and human resources. These interventions are typically designed by subject matter experts who don’t have direct experience with the local community. In contrast, successful interventions are built from the ground up, planned and implemented by the people that will benefit from them, using community-based action research. Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research is a guide for how to do research that is inclusive, engages in community-building, and implements a decolonizing framework. This text advocates for a collaborative approach, researching with communities, rather than conducting research on them. Reviewing both theory and method, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Abigail Tilton offer practical tips for forming community partnerships and building coalitions. Researching With also includes helpful information about incorporating community work into a successful academic career. This book can be used as supplemental or primary reading in courses in sociology, social work, health research, nursing, public health, qualitative inquiry, and research methods, and is also of value to individual researchers and graduate students writing their thesis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gullion, Jessica Smartt

Tilton, Abigail

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Organization of the Text

Our Backgrounds

Chapter 1. Community Health

Understanding Community-Based Action Research

Issues to Consider

Public Academics

The Slow Professor

The Boyer Model

Chapter 2. Decolonizing Research

Colonization of Knowledge

Indigenous Research

Honoring Culture

Sacred Knowledge

Black Feminist Methodology

The Neoliberal Agenda and the Politics of Knowledge

Other Considerations

Chapter 3. Doing Community-Based Action Research

Epistemic Privilege

Top-Down Solutions Often Fail

Your Role as Researcher

Objectivity

Finding Projects

Gather a Group of Like Minded People

Define the Goals

Mapping the Problem and Collecting Data

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Conflict Management

When People Don't Want to Participate

Chapter 4. Research Ethics

Procedural Ethics

Situational Ethics

Relational Ethics

Chapter 5. Getting the Message Out

The Problem with Academic Journals

Voice

Telling the Story

Writing in Accessible Language

Don't Feed the Trolls

Working with the Media

Putting Action into Action Research

Conclusion

Appendix A

A Pedagogical Approach to Action Research

References

About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica Smartt Gullion, PhD (2002), Texas Woman's University, is Associate Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University. She has written extensively on community health and ethnography. Her most recent books include Diffractive Ethnography: Social Science and the Ontological Turn (Routledge, 2018) and Writing Ethnography (Sense Publishers, 2015).

Abigail Tilton, PhD (2006), University of North Texas, is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Social Work at Texas Woman's University. Her research interests include child and family welfare, foster care, and women’s leadership development.