Participatory Action Research

Kindon, Sara; Pain, Rachel; Kesby, Mike

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“…'Citizen scientist' (meaning scientist independent of institutions) was used at least as early as 1912 (Scott 1912). 'Participatory Action Research' (PAR), also termed 'Community Action Research' (CAR), became popular during the social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in Latin America (McTaggart 1991, Torres 1992, Kindon et al 2008. 'Citizen science' as a democratic concept was used in the 1990s (Solomon 1993;Irwin 1995), around the same time that Bonney first used ' citizen science' to describe his long-running participatory data collection projects (1996).…”

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“…For example, following citizen engagement in water quality monitoring during the recent Flint, Michigan water crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $80,000 to a team of researchers at Virginia Tech to test the city's water (Hohn 2016). As citizen science expands in public health and the social sciences, particularly in its community-based forms (Kindon et al 2008), one can easily imagine societies experiencing similar benefits in these domains.…”

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“…This type of citizen science is rooted within the principles of participatory action research (PAR), considered "a collaborative process of research, education, and action explicitly oriented toward social change. PAR involves academic researchers (usually full-time and paid) and non-academic co-researchers and participants (usually part-time on the project and not paid) working together to examine a problematic situation in order to change it for the better on participants' own terms" (Kindon et al 2008). Results of some such projects in the U.S. have revealed significant environmental degradation, which then resulted in broader investigations led by or supported by the federal government.…”

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Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms

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Much can be at stake depending on the choice of words used to describe citizen science, because terminology impacts how knowledge is developed. Citizen science is a quickly evolving field that is mobilizing people's involvement in information development, social action and justice, and large-scale information gathering. Currently, a wide variety of terms and expressions are being used to refer to the concept of 'citizen science' and its practitioners. Here, we explore these terms to help provide guidance for the future growth of this field. We do this by reviewing the theoretical, historical, geopolitical, and disciplinary context of citizen science terminology; discussing what citizen science is and reviewing related terms; and providing a collection of potential terms and definitions for 'citizen science' and people participating in citizen science projects. This collection of terms was generated primarily from the broad knowledge base and on-the-ground experience of the authors, by recognizing the potential issues associated with various terms. While our examples may not be systematic or exhaustive, they are intended to be suggestive and invitational of future consideration. In our collective experience with citizen science projects, no single term is appropriate for all contexts. In a given citizen science project, we suggest that terms should be chosen carefully and their usage explained; direct communication with participants about how terminology affects them and what they would prefer to be called also should occur. We further recommend that a more systematic study of terminology trends in citizen science be conducted.

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“…PAR differs from observational methods in that it does not attempt to reduce the complexity of reality and experience to mere representation, nor at making truth claims from an external perspective. Rather the political task of PAR practitioners is to let the 'researched' participate in the definition of the research focus, questions and objectives (Kindon et al, 2007). Such research practices aim at a bottom-up discovery of local, situated knowledges with methods based on inclusion rather than extraction, on participation rather than appropriation.…”

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“…In other words participatory practices have been criticised for exercising subtle methods whose effect is to tame the possibility of resistance, and to conceal relations of power/knowledge and outside agendas (Kindon et al, 2007).…”

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Power, Knowledge, and Resistances in the Study of Social Movements

Dadusc¹

2013

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This paper will analyse the power relations involved in social movement research, exploring alternative epistemological practices that resist and subvert academic conventions in order to create new modes of knowing. I will critique the production of a knowledge that aims at liberation and emancipation by conducting research 'about' or 'on behalf of' social movements, and I will show how this approach might lead to their very subjection. It will be argued that, in order to avoid the reproduction of power relations they seek to resist, research practices need to go beyond dialectical modes of knowing, departing from assumptions of the subject/object of knowledge, of objective/subjective research and from the hierarchy between theory and praxis. A precedent is found in the research approaches of post-colonial, activist, and queer studies that seek to experiment different modes of knowing, based not on observation and participation, but on learning from the experience of resistance in social movements: in this way resistant practices become an epistemological perspective rather than an object of study, and research can become a tool of resistance. Deanna Daduscschool of sociology, social Policy and social research, university of Kent PoWer, KnoWleDGe AnD resistAnCes in tHe stuDY of soCiAl MoveMentsCorresponding author: Deanna Dadusc, email: deannadadusc@gmail.com Many thanks to the Amsterdam squatters' movement, to Hanneke Mol and erika Doucette for letting me refl ect on the strong entanglement between power and knowledge in academic research, and for introducing me to alternative modes of thought.

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Participatory Praxis and Social Justice

Kinpaisby‐Hill¹

2011

A Companion to Social Geography

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Participatory Action Research

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Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms

Citizen Science Terminology Matters: Exploring Key Terms

Power, Knowledge, and Resistances in the Study of Social Movements

Participatory Praxis and Social Justice

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