Challenges and Benefits of Community-Based Participatory Research for Environmental Justice: A Case of Collaboratively Examining Ecocultural Struggles

Chen, Yea‐Wen; Milstein, Tema; Anguiano, Claudia; Sandoval, Jennifer A.; Knudsen, Lissa

doi:10.1080/17524032.2012.698291

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“…Improving research from an ethical and efficacy perspective, the third recommendation reminds investigators of the community-based participatory research model. A community-based approach to health research will facilitate the integration of culture into the research methodology, ultimately enhancing the participation and leadership of African immigrants (Flicker, 2008; Chen et al , 2012). The community-based participatory research model has been deemed the gold standard, especially when targeting vulnerable groups or underrepresented populations.…”

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A systematic review on the health of African immigrants in the United States: synthesizing recommendations for future research

Semprini

2020

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of published literature studying the health of African immigrants in the USA and to develop a formal set of recommendations for future researchers aiming to improve the health outcomes in this population. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive search was initiated on PubMed, Cochrane, ERIC, DOAJ, Prospero and Scopus databases. Final inclusion criteria were: systematic reviews, studying African Immigrants in the USA, measuring a clinical health outcome, since 1999. Articles were screened in four stages by title, abstract, full-text of the review and full-text of the primary studies within each review. Data was abstracted by identifying general information, study population, outcome measurements, conclusions and recommendations of each review. Findings In the initial search, 519 potential reviews were identified. After removing duplicates, 473 articles were excluded by screening the title or abstract. After a full-text review of each article and primary study within each article, nine reviews were included in the final synthesis. Reviews covered Female Genital Cutting and Pregnancy Outcomes, Caesarean Births, Gestational Diabetes, Cancer, HIV/AIDS, Body-weight and Acculturation. Among the primary reports included in the final synthesis, less than 50 per cent studied African immigrants in the USA. African Americans living in the USA made up only 11 per cent of the pooled study sample. Research limitations/implications Immigrants from Africa are one of the fastest-growing populations in the USA. This group has been underrepresented in health research, leading to a poor understanding of the group’s health outcomes. Health researchers must adopt recommendations and prioritize studies that meet the health needs of Africans during this time of demographic transition. Originality/value Systematic reviews represent a bedrock of medical evidence and signify a solid understanding of accepted knowledge in the field. Systematic reviews, however, do not necessarily constitute the end of discovery. Researchers can use existing systematic reviews to critique previous studies or initiate future research. There remain significant research gaps analyzing the health outcomes, behaviors and treatment of subgroups of African immigrants living in the USA. Future research should shift toward the growing needs of the population, leveraging the strengths and diversity of African immigrants now living in the USA.

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A systematic review on the health of African immigrants in the United States: synthesizing recommendations for future research

Semprini

2020

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“…Indeed, critical and change-oriented EC research is often engaged, driven by the ambition and ethical stance to recognize multiple ways of knowing and, consequently, the need to co-produce knowledge together with non-academic actors (Endres et al, 2009), through, e.g. community based participatory research (Chen, Milstein, Anguiano, Sandoval, & Knudsen, 2012), rhetorical field methods (Pezzullo & de Onís, 2018) or collaborative governance (Walker & Senecah, 2011).…”

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Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With

Joosse

Powell

Bergeå

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Environmental Communication

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While calls for critical, engaged and change-oriented scholarship in environmental communication (EC) abound, few articles discuss what this may practically entail. With this article, we aim to contribute to a discussion in EC about the methodological implications of such scholarship. Based on our combined experience in EC research and drawing from a variety of academic fields, we describe six methodological dilemmas that we encounter in our research practice and that we believe are inherent to such scholarship. These dilemmas are (1) grasping communication; (2) representing others; (3) involving people in research; (4) co-producing knowledge; (5) engaging critically; and (6) relating to conflict. This article does not offer solutions to these complex dilemmas. Rather, our dilemma descriptions are meant to help researchers think through methodological issues in critical, engaged and change-oriented EC research. The article also helps to translate the dilemmas to the reality of research projects through a set of questions, aimed to support a sensitivity to, and understanding of, the dilemmas in context.

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“…As Sayer (2013, p. 177) states it, ‘the infeasibility of a green capitalism is a truly inconvenient fact not only for the rich but also for the comfortably off in affluent countries; it would be irresponsible of academics not to broadcast this message at every opportunity’. Beyond this dissenting voice, the question remains of whether critical social psychology might be a place from which alternative visions of society and nature can be encouraged and facilitated, echoing and developing radical research agendas, advocacy and methodological innovation (Chen, Milstein, Anguiano, Sandoval, & Knudsen, ; Corning & Myers, ; Marcus, Omoto, & Winter, ; Pickerill, ).…”

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Approaching Nature, ‘Sustainability’ and Ecological Crises from a Critical Social Psychological Perspective

Adams

2014

Social & Personality Psych

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This article considers the potential contribution of critical social psychology to the study of the relationship between humans and nature, particularly in terms of the role of human activities in ecological degradation. That human behaviour is having a profound impact on global climate and related phenomena has garnered broad scientific consensus and is communicated to the public in increasingly sophisticated ways. Psychology has been increasingly drawn upon by policy makers, pressure groups and related institutions in this context, in the hope of understanding, predicting and shaping behaviour and lifestyles towards more sustainable ends. In the past few decades, cognitive behaviourist models have dominated research and policy agendas concerned with identifying barriers to, and/or promoting ‘environmentally sustainable’ or ‘pro-environmental’ behaviour. Yet despite the emergence of critical work, to date, there has been very little work in this field explicitly under the banner of critical social psychology. In this article, a brief outline of some of the tenets of critical social psychology is followed by a consideration of how these principles have been taken up in existing cross-disciplinary critical approaches to the interrelated issues of environment, sustainability and human behaviour and the potential contribution of critical social psychology in these areas

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Challenges and Benefits of Community-Based Participatory Research for Environmental Justice: A Case of Collaboratively Examining Ecocultural Struggles

Cited by 24 publications

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A systematic review on the health of African immigrants in the United States: synthesizing recommendations for future research

A systematic review on the health of African immigrants in the United States: synthesizing recommendations for future research

Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With

Approaching Nature, ‘Sustainability’ and Ecological Crises from a Critical Social Psychological Perspective

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