Navigating Challenges in Participatory Research: Strategies Against Delegitimation
Delve into the complexities of participatory research as this article explores strategies to combat delegitimation in community-based work, highlighting methods to empower and amplify marginalized voices against dismissive practices.
- Participatory research
- Community empowerment
- Delegitimation strategies
- Marginalized voices
- Research challenges
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Legal Empowerment Learning Lab 2020-2021
Where We Have Been, Where Are We Going Fall 2021 (the last Thursday of every month) Case example of an FPAR success Methodological examples Continuing our collaborative article Oct 202o March 2021 Introduction to Legal Empowerment Participatory Data Collection The Future Is now! 2020 2021 Summer 2021 Nov 2020 Jan 2021 Shared Struggles, Carrying Complexity Collective Data Analysis Ethics and Care Responding to Delegitimation What can we nurture into the future? Introduction to Participatory Action Research Community-led Research Design
Roadmap 1) Opening 2) Is it ok to record? 3) Overview of process 4) Overview of article 5) Edit article 6) Reflections, and where to publish 7) See you at tea time and at next month s gathering!
What energy are hoping to bring into the new season?
Our process in this collaborative writing so far From these conversations, transcripts, and notes, we have begun to stitch these experiences into the shape of an article. In June: We each brought an example of when our participatory work was in some way invalidated As a community, we imagined possible responses to these instances of invalidation.
What is in the article? An opening that explores the ways that knowledge building has prioritized a positivistic epistemology in how it understands objectivity, rigor, and validity. This brief introduction then offers up our goal for this article to systematically name and thematically organize common strategies in which community based, participatory work has been invalidated.
Documenting delegitimation Refusing new evidence by building a wall of existing scientific claims Discounting local knowledge as unscientific Questioning the qualifications of community members Setting metrics in a way that recenters those already in power Dehumanizing and delegitimating the local community itself in an attempt to erase their concerns Singling out individuals to disempower the community Branding efforts as simply activism therefore not relevant to community leadership Maintaining structural status quo, while performing inclusiveness Academics setting parameters about whose voice counts as a way of silencing some members of the community Using methodological tools that assume to capture issues - therefore silencing some issues PAR researchers only considering the liberatory aspects of the approach and ignoring the potential burdens
Responding to Delegitimation Ask whether it is necessary to even engage authorities who are delegitimizing communities Anticipating the strategies deployed by those in power in advance and preparing prompts to offer in response Lean on principles of human rights law Acknowledging the feelings of hopelessness that can result from these instances of erasure
Collaborative Editing In pairs: Enter the document and make any edits that you see fit. Including: Moving sections around Adding analysis Elaborating on examples Changing analysis Adding references Anything!
