The Application of Participatory Action-Research in Latin America

Fals-Borda, Orlando

doi:10.1177/026858098700200401

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“…However, it is not a toolkit but an approach that emphasizes collective inquiry and social change (Fals-Borda 1987). It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it collaboratively and reflectively.…”

Section: Bridging Sustainability and Indigenous Sciencesmentioning

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Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

Johnson

Howitt

Cajete³

et al. 2015

Sustain Sci

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Section: Bridging Sustainability and Indigenous Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

Johnson

Howitt

Cajete³

et al. 2015

Sustain Sci

269

222

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“…In an increasingly media-driven and discursive society (Hajer, 2009), the prospect of democratic articulation should not just be limited to direct elections and participation of citizens. How civil society mobilizations occur is also crucial; in particular, the extent to which critical knowledge and evidence is articulated within these movements is an important aspect of political representation (Fals-Borda, 1987). As climate policy involves multiscalar processes of understanding and responding to vulnerability in which diverse actors have stakes, disadvantaged communities are not likely to be recognized by the policy actors, as found in the case of climate policy development in Nepal.…”

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Policy without politics: technocratic control of climate change adaptation policy making in Nepal

Ojha¹,

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As developing countries around the world formulate policies to address climate change, concerns remain as to whether the voices of those most exposed to climate risk are represented in those policies. Developing countries face significant challenges for contextualizing global-scale scientific research into national political dynamics and downscaling global frameworks to subnational levels, where the most affected are presumed to live. This article critiques the ways in which the politics of representation and climate science are framed and pursued in the process of climate policy development, and contributes to an understanding of the relative effectiveness of globally framed, generic policy mechanisms in vulnerable and politically volatile contexts. Based on this analysis, it also outlines opportunities for the possibility of improving climate policy processes to contest technocratic framing and generic international adaptation solutions. Policy relevanceNepal's position as one of the countries most at risk from climate change in the Himalayas has spurred significant international support to craft climate policy responses over the past few years. Focusing on the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) and the Climate Change Policy, this article examines the extent to which internationally and scientifically framed climate policy in Nepal recognizes the unfolding political mobilizations around the demand for a representative state and equitable adaptation to climate risks. This is particularly important in Nepal, where political unrest in the post-conflict transition after the end of the civil war in 2006 has focused around struggles over representation for those historically on the political margins. Arguing that vulnerability to climate risk is produced in conjunction with social and political conditions, and that not everyone in the same locality is equally vulnerable, we demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the politics of representation for climate policy making in Nepal. However, so far, this policy making has primarily been shaped through a technocratic framing that avoids political contestations and downplays the demand for inclusive and deliberative processes. Based on this analysis, we identify the need for a flexible, contextually grounded, and multi-scalar approach to political representation while also emphasizing the need for downscaling climate science that can inform policy development and implementation to achieve fair and effective adaptation to climate change.

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“…While most academic institutions favour scientific over participatory methods, academic communities engaged in participatory research exist on most campuses with underpinnings from seminal works (see for example Freire 1993). The emergence of participatory or rapid rural appraisals in the 1990s (Chambers 1994) and subsequent participatory coastal resource assessments (Deguit et al 2004) represent the practical application of participatory theories and methods expressed by intellectuals largely from the global South (for example Fals-Borda 1987;Freire 1993).…”

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Creating space for interdisciplinary marine and coastal research: five dilemmas and suggested resolutions

Christie

2011

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SUMMARYImportant changes are needed to disciplinary theories and methods to support interdisciplinary and integrated ocean and coastal management policies and implementation. This review argues that theories and methods should conform to a perspective that ocean management is a societal activity with diverse goals ideally informed by interdisciplinary information. The review focuses on the integrated coastal management (ICM) and marine ecosystem-based management (EBM) frameworks and the marine protected areas (MPA) management tool. It begins by suggesting that at present there is a notable imbalance in the degree of effort allocated to monitoring the ecological and social dimensions of ocean resource use and policy processes. Based on how Western society and an influential epistemic community construct 'the environment' and society's relation to the environment, natural sciences play an inordinately important role in the description of the problem and policy recommendations. The discourse advocating for a global networks of marine protected areas, without adequate consideration of society impacts and responses, represents an example of this imbalance. Rebalancing the contributions of scientific disciplines encounters various dilemmas with epistemological, methodological and sociological dimensions. The analysis concludes with suggestions for balancing ocean and coastal interdisciplinary research and reframing key issues, creating self reflexive and multidisciplinary research teams, and reworking educational programmes.

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The Application of Participatory Action-Research in Latin America

Cited by 336 publications

References 4 publications

Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods

Policy without politics: technocratic control of climate change adaptation policy making in Nepal

Creating space for interdisciplinary marine and coastal research: five dilemmas and suggested resolutions

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