Confronting the Insider-Outsider Polemic in Conducting Research with Diasporic Communities: Towards a Community-Based Approach

Collet, Bruce A.

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.21400

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“…Procedural fairness can induce a broad range of emotions in employees, including the feeling of being respected, feeling loyalty to and recognized by a company, feelings of trust, and work commitment (Collet 2008). Contractual control, which stipulates damages from a breach of terms in BIM delivery, affects distributional fairness, which in turn influences efficiency and productivity (Suliman 2007).…”

Section: Multiple Mediating Effects Of Perceived Fairness and Interormentioning

confidence: 99%

Joint Contract–Function Effects on BIM-Enabled EPC Project Performance

Lee

Chong

et al. 2020

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracting does not promote collaboration and thus, may not be suitable for building information modeling (BIM) projects. Joint-contract functions that combine contractual control, coordination, and contingency adaptability may positively influence the performance of these BIM-enabled projects. This study hypothesized that perceived fairness, calculative trust, relational trust, and positive outcomes of distrust influence the relationship between joint contract functions and BIMenabled project performance. It collected 252 observations from industry practitioners in EPC oil and gas projects and analyzed them using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The results show no direct effect of joint-contract functions on BIM-enabled EPC project performance but do show significant total and indirect relationship effects that are influenced by perceived fairness and relational trust. The findings contribute to construction contracting research by empirically showing how formal contracts focusing on joint-contract functions can influence BIM-enabled EPC project performance. The current findings also shed light on appropriate contract framing for BIM-enabled EPC project stakeholders, an area not explored in the previous literature.

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Section: Multiple Mediating Effects Of Perceived Fairness and Interormentioning

confidence: 99%

Joint Contract–Function Effects on BIM-Enabled EPC Project Performance

Lee

Chong

et al. 2020

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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“…The connection I have with my co-researchers also includes a mutual understanding about the intricacies of conducting research within communities such as ours. I am aware of, and understand, the powerlessness of my co-researchers because of the ineffectiveness and exploitation of other research projects conducted by "outsiders" (Collet, 2008) in the past. I also understand my responsibility to use my privilege and power as a doctoral student researcher to facilitate change.…”

Section: Social Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maintaining the Authenticity of Co-Researcher Voice Using FPAR Principles

Ewan

2019

Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice

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This descriptive paper addresses the issue of co-researcher voice suppression, among others, through disclosing my process of presenting the data of a participatory community-based research project at an academic conference. The project in discussion investigated the perceptions of women, who live in Toronto public housing, about what makes a community. Feminist participatory action research (FPAR) and narrative methods are briefly reviewed in this paper as they are influential to the trajectory of presenting this data. The voices of the women who engaged in the project of focus were heard, without compromise, vis-a-vis the approaches and method we used to conduct our research and to communicate their stories to the conference audience. As a doctoral student researcher, I aimed to present this project at the conference in a way that aligned with social justice principles of FPAR, particularly the notion of "powerwith," as discussed by Ponic, Reid, and Frisby (2010). In disclosing this process, I hope to provide insight, in a clear and accessible fashion, to others who will conduct and present participatory research in similar settings.Ewan: Maintaining the Authenticity of Co-Researcher Voice Using FPAR Principles Art. 18, page 2 of 11 I paid attention to these issues and ensured they were accentuated while presenting our project at conferences and also now while writing this paper. I also discovered other difficulties found in the literature about conducting community-based research that we were able to avoid because of certain particularities of our project -namely, pre-existing relationships and mutual understandings of problems -alongside the use of FPAR principles. CBPAR Benefits and ChallengesTremblay (2009) and Curnow (2017) have provided perspectives on some benefits and challenges that may arise from community-university partnerships in community-based research. Tremblay (2009) wrote about the empowering aspects of community-based participatory research. She stated how it is a collaborative approach that involves each partner throughout the whole research process. Also noted is how this research "increases community capacities, broader stakeholder participation in decision-making, and promotes social justice" (p. 1). More specifically, Tremblay (2009) asserted that empowerment through research takes place when researchers control the development of the project, and also when they gain social influence through becoming confident about their own capabilities.Conversely, Curnow (2017) interrogated the general narrative of community-university partnerships and implementation of community-based research that mainly consists of positive experiences. He has argued that experiences with this approach resulted in his co-researchers feeling isolated, powerless, and disempowered. The sentiments of the researchers were due to discussions they had with their neighbours about certain issues that existed within their communities. Curnow (2017) asserted that the co-researchers greatly depended on the university researche...

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“…Whilst there are a plenitude of studies that examine the roles of ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ in research contexts with diverse populations, there is increasingly a recognition that these concepts are located more along a continuum rather than as discrete binaries (Carling et al., 2013; Collet, 2008; Merriam et al., 2001). Kusow’s (2003) ethnography of conducting research as a ‘native ethnographer’ demonstrates that what makes a researcher an insider or outsider is contextual, relational and dynamic.…”

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Conducting post-disaster research with refugee background peer researchers and their communities

Marlowe

Lou

Osman

et al. 2014

Qualitative Social Work

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This paper incorporates peer researchers from refugee backgrounds to deconstruct their experiences of conducting interviews and focus groups with refugee communities in a post-disaster environment in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The associated dynamics illustrate the contextual intricacies of recruitment, building relationships, the politics of interpreting and engaging with people's lived experiences in respectful and safe ways. The peer researchers' experiences highlight several methodological and ethical complexities to critically examine the role of 'insiders' and 'outsiders' as a continuum when working in post-disaster contexts with culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

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Confronting the Insider-Outsider Polemic in Conducting Research with Diasporic Communities: Towards a Community-Based Approach

Cited by 27 publications

References 10 publications

Joint Contract–Function Effects on BIM-Enabled EPC Project Performance

Joint Contract–Function Effects on BIM-Enabled EPC Project Performance

Maintaining the Authenticity of Co-Researcher Voice Using FPAR Principles

Conducting post-disaster research with refugee background peer researchers and their communities

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