Overview
Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice. Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process. Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched. The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues.
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Author: Susan D. Greenbaum , Glenn Jacobs , Prentice Zinn , Natalicia R. Tracy
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781978801165
ISBN 10: 1978801165
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 17 January 2020
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Introduction SUSAN D. GREENBAUM 1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It? GLENN JACOBS Part I Social Justice Organizing 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research LISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing JONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHN Part II Worker Rights Activism 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots TIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community VICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action PABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York CARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers RICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMM Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho LEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model ROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action PRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. GREENBAUM, AND GLENN JACOBS Notes on Contributors About the Foundation Index
Reviews
The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships. --Susan B. Hyatt co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education
The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships. --Susan B. Hyatt co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education
"""The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships."" "
The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships.
Author Information
Susan Greenbaum is a retired professor of anthropology and member of the Sociological Initiatives board. She is the author of More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa and Blaming the Poor:The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty (Rutgers University Press). She lives in Tampa, Florida. Glenn Jacobs is a retired professor of sociology. He is the author of Charles Horton Cooley: Imagining Social Reality. He is a founding member and president of the Sociological Initiatives Foundation. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Prentice Zinn is a director of GMA Foundations, a philanthropic services organization based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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