Researching With
A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research
Published on 20. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-90-04-42483-8 (ISBN)
Description
Many community health interventions fail, wasting tax dollars and human resources. These interventions are typically designed by subject matter experts who don't have direct experience with the local community. In contrast, successful interventions are built from the ground up, planned and implemented by the people that will benefit from them, using community-based action research. Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research is a guide for how to do research that is inclusive, engages in community-building, and implements a decolonizing framework. This text advocates for a collaborative approach, researching with communities, rather than conducting research on them. Reviewing both theory and method, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Abigail Tilton offer practical tips for forming community partnerships and building coalitions. Researching With also includes helpful information about incorporating community work into a successful academic career. This book can be used as supplemental or primary reading in courses in sociology, social work, health research, nursing, public health, qualitative inquiry, and research methods, and is also of value to individual researchers and graduate students writing their thesis.
Reviews / Votes
"Though there are many books on community-based action research (CBAR), Gullion and Tilton have provided an indispensable volume for researchers who are deeply concerned with social justice, equity, and collaborative methods to solve problems that matter to members of underserved communities. Combining both a participatory approach and a decolonizing world view, they map out the characteristics and issues of CBAR, what constitutes decolonizing research, methods for doing CBAR, especially with underrepresented groups, and an essential chapter on public scholarship approaches to dissemination, all viewed through the lens of public health (arguably a primary tool of the colonizer). Written in accessible language with tons of illustrative and anecdotal examples yet grounded in the historical and current literature, this book provides a theoretical and practical guide for both student researchers or researchers who want to interrogate their own privilege, positionality, and inherited colonial frames of reference regardless of their areas of research interest." - Rosemary Reilly, PhD, CCFE, Professor of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University"A much-anticipated text that elevates people and communities and bridges the gap between research theory and practice. Using decolonization as a theoretical framework, Gullion and Tilton explore how relationality can be used to solve community problems. Interrogating scientistic, Western standards in research is a central theme in this book. Yet, the authors offer practical, Indigenous knowledge-centered solutions to community-based action research that are integral in addressing power and privilege within the research process from the researcher's positionality to the methods used to collect and disseminate data. Adding to the current literature on social justice-centered scholarship, Gullion and Tilton offer tools to help researchers explore their own path in decolonizing knowledges in their research process. This book is a must read for any scholar doing human subjects research and should be required reading for graduate students doing social science research." - Sheila Bustillos, PhD, Director for Strategic Initiatives at the Texas Center for Child and Family Services
"Drs. Gullion and Tilton have applied their experience and expertise to dig deeper into social justice within diverse groups and their interactions. Meticulously peeling away layers of implicit bias, barriers to feminism, paternalistic cultural norms-they guide an in-depth discussion of the undercurrents of bias in community conversations. Objective analysis is important, and this work forces objectivity while educating the reader on hidden motivations that can hinder progress in community organizing. This material is rich in research, and requires much of the reader. The destination is worth the journey: a better understanding of why we see our world the way we do and recognize our biased eyes." - Matt Richardson, DrPH, MPH, FACHE, Director of Public Health, Denton County Public Health
"This book validates the critical impact of stakeholder involvement for successful development of community-based projects. It should be read by every person that sits on a grant giving board. Implementing the critical steps of stakeholder engagement would improve the success rate of community-based projects." - Dian Jordan, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas Permian Basin, and Visiting Curator, Museum of the Red River
"Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research is a significant and long-overdue contribution to the research methodology literature. It incorporates a deeply-embedded respect for communities and applies the Boyer Model as an inclusive framework for recognizing knowledge. Gullion and Tilton present a persuasive and thought-provoking approach based on decades of research practice that will engage both new and experienced researchers." - Lisa Zottarelli, PhD, Sociology Professor and SACSCOC Liaison, San Antonio College
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42483-8 (9789004424838)
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Researching With
A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research
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Persons
Jessica Smartt Gullion, PhD (2002), Texas Woman's University, is Associate Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University. She has written extensively on community health and ethnography. Her most recent books include Diffractive Ethnography: Social Science and the Ontological Turn (Routledge, 2018) and Writing Ethnography (Sense Publishers, 2015).
Abigail Tilton, PhD (2006), University of North Texas, is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Social Work at Texas Woman's University. Her research interests include child and family welfare, foster care, and women's leadership development.
Abigail Tilton, PhD (2006), University of North Texas, is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Social Work at Texas Woman's University. Her research interests include child and family welfare, foster care, and women's leadership development.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
?Organization of the Text
?Our Backgrounds
Chapter 1. Community Health
?Understanding Community-Based Action Research
?Issues to Consider
?Public Academics
?The Slow Professor
?The Boyer Model
Chapter 2. Decolonizing Research
?Colonization of Knowledge
?Indigenous Research
?Honoring Culture
?Sacred Knowledge
?Black Feminist Methodology
?The Neoliberal Agenda and the Politics of Knowledge
?Other Considerations
Chapter 3. Doing Community-Based Action Research
?Epistemic Privilege
?Top-Down Solutions Often Fail
?Your Role as Researcher
?Objectivity
?Finding Projects
?Gather a Group of Like Minded People
?Define the Goals
?Mapping the Problem and Collecting Data
?Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
?Conflict Management
?When People Don't Want to Participate
Chapter 4. Research Ethics
?Procedural Ethics
?Situational Ethics
?Relational Ethics
Chapter 5. Getting the Message Out
?The Problem with Academic Journals
?Voice
?Telling the Story
?Writing in Accessible Language
?Don't Feed the Trolls
?Working with the Media
?Putting Action into Action Research
Conclusion
Appendix A
?A Pedagogical Approach to Action Research
References
About the Authors
Introduction
?Organization of the Text
?Our Backgrounds
Chapter 1. Community Health
?Understanding Community-Based Action Research
?Issues to Consider
?Public Academics
?The Slow Professor
?The Boyer Model
Chapter 2. Decolonizing Research
?Colonization of Knowledge
?Indigenous Research
?Honoring Culture
?Sacred Knowledge
?Black Feminist Methodology
?The Neoliberal Agenda and the Politics of Knowledge
?Other Considerations
Chapter 3. Doing Community-Based Action Research
?Epistemic Privilege
?Top-Down Solutions Often Fail
?Your Role as Researcher
?Objectivity
?Finding Projects
?Gather a Group of Like Minded People
?Define the Goals
?Mapping the Problem and Collecting Data
?Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
?Conflict Management
?When People Don't Want to Participate
Chapter 4. Research Ethics
?Procedural Ethics
?Situational Ethics
?Relational Ethics
Chapter 5. Getting the Message Out
?The Problem with Academic Journals
?Voice
?Telling the Story
?Writing in Accessible Language
?Don't Feed the Trolls
?Working with the Media
?Putting Action into Action Research
Conclusion
Appendix A
?A Pedagogical Approach to Action Research
References
About the Authors