The Role of the Social Scientist in Participatory Action
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Ruano, Sergio

doi:10.4135/9781412985383.n15

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“…However, not all designers of technology accept that there are normative judgements embedded in their designs and thus every technological system or design solution is to a certain degree political (Kleine 2007). Designing technology is always a political act, in that it entails decisions on the technological space in which social action can take place. Ruano (1991), working from an agricultural outreach perspective, describes the role of the action researcher in the project as going through the phases of diagnosis (of the socio‐technical problem), technology generation and adaptation, technology testing, technology validation and finally technology transfer, with partners participating in each step.…”

Section: Action Research and Global Value Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating partnerships, understanding power: doing action research on Chilean Fairtrade wine value chains

Kleine¹

2008

Geographical Journal

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Sales in Fairtrade wine have been growing rapidly worldwide, and the UK is the most important market. This paper reports on an action research project undertaken with different economic actors along the value chain of a Chilean Fairtrade wine. The aim of the interdisciplinary project was to explore how the internet and tracking and tracing technologies could be used to render value chains more transparent for consumers and producers. An internet interface combined with a barcode‐based data retrieval system could allow actors in the value chain to call up economic, social and environmental information about a product. Early findings from the action research process show that while supermarkets are the lead firms in the Fairtrade wine chain in terms of economic power, the producers and the Fairtrade certification body wield ‘moral power’ over other actors in the value chain. Fairtrade producers and the Fairtrade certification body relate to each other in cycles of mutual recognition, thus underpinning each others’ legitimacy and moral power. The paper argues that action research, in particular the positionality of the researcher team as a collaboration partner, can lead to a better understanding of the nature of linkages and power relations between the economic actors in value chains.

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Section: Action Research and Global Value Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating partnerships, understanding power: doing action research on Chilean Fairtrade wine value chains

Kleine¹

2008

Geographical Journal

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“…Participants may believe they have been forced to contribute to reforms they disagree with. Often the divided par-ticipants have different and unequal status and power in the institution where the action research takes place, raising questions about whether the power relations are being exploited during the decision-making process (Ebest, 2001;Erickson, 1999;Meyer, 2000;Ruano, 1991;Van Den Berg, 2001;Zeni, Prophete, Cason, & Phillips, 2001).…”

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Travelers and Trolls: Practitioner Research and Institutional Review Boards

Pritchard

2002

Educational Researcher

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Practitioner research is a growing form of educational research that presents distinctive ethical issues concerning the protection of research subjects. These issues are also evident in similar forms of action-oriented research carried out in natural settings. Some Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) have been criticized for drawing inappropriate conclusions in their reviews of proposed practitioner research projects. This article seeks to explain some of the factors creating the conflicts and misunderstandings among practitioner researchers and IRBs in hopes of ameliorating these difficulties. Although some difficulties are readily resolvable, fundamental societal rifts exist in the ethical perspectives from which judgments about the ethical propriety of such projects should be made, and the disputes derived from these rifts are not so easy to fix.

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The Role of the Social Scientist in Participatory Action Research

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Negotiating partnerships, understanding power: doing action research on Chilean Fairtrade wine value chains

Negotiating partnerships, understanding power: doing action research on Chilean Fairtrade wine value chains

Travelers and Trolls: Practitioner Research and Institutional Review Boards

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