Community-Centered Praxis: Toward an Alternative Non-dominative Applied Anthropology

REVIEW OF COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH: Assessing Partnership Approaches to Improve Public Health

“…For example, words such as "ownership of data" and "community-based research" may have different meanings to different members of a partnership, and these different understandings can create conflicts (155). These differences may also be associated with diversity in gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, and sexual orientation (82,110,114,155,161). For example, conflict may arise when women are involved as equal partners in traditionally male-dominated settings (26, 82), and when one partner makes comments that are considered sexist or homophobic by other partners.…”

“…Researcher role, skills, and competencies The effective community-based researcher is often referred to in the literature as a catalyst, facilitator, colearner, and/or consultant (52,82,161,172). Researchers contribute their own expertise-while at the same time recognizing the expertise of others-with the aim of establishing interdependency among rather than dependency on any of the partners involved (7,33,56,74).…”

“…Researchers and practitioners alike have called for increased attention to the complex issues that compromise the health of people living in marginalized communities (87,195); for more integration of research and practice (21,145); for greater community involvement and control, for example, through partnerships among academic, health practice, and community organizations (36, 48, 61, 71, 83-85, 103, 121, 125, 197); for increased sensitivity to and competence in working within diverse cultures (9,112,113,118,160,161,185); for expanded use of both qualitative and quantitative research methods (61, 84,107,132,164,173), and for more focus on health and quality of life (3,30), including the social, economic, and political dimensions of health and well-being. These calls for a more comprehensive and integrated approach to research and practice in public health have been voiced in major national reports [e.g.…”

Collaboration Between Management and Anthropology Researchers: Obstacles and Opportunities

“…However, in the context of applied anthropology, postmodernism does not refer to skepticism about science, or to self-conscious, "reflexive" styles of presentation ("confessional tales" in Van Maanen's expression, 2011, Chap. 4), but to a mode of bottom-up engagement in collaboration with studied populations, from the outset of a project (Johannsen, 1992;Hackenberg, 2002;Singer, 1994). An engaged scholarship is consistent with the practice we have noted in business anthropology.…”

Adventure Sport Tourism in Rural Revitalisation—An Ethnographic Evaluation

“…The challenge is to disrupt homeostatic feedback loops in the current social system. There is a substantial literature on the means by which to do precisely that (Freire, 1970;Borman, 1979;Chambers, 1994;Singer, 1994;Frisby & Millar, 2002). Although specific tactics vary, the fundamental principles are common: capitalisation on a felt sense that things should be better, facilitation of dialog among locals, creation of a shared vision, and empowerment through skills and social networks.…”