Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook by Susan D. G

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Across the US immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects.

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

IntroductionSUSAN D. GREENBAUM1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It?GLENN JACOBSPart I Social Justice Organizing3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class InclusiveBETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action ResearchLISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice OrganizingJONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHNPart II Worker Rights Activism6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the GrassrootsTIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker CommunityVICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network's Research and ActionPABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New YorkCARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas WorkersRICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMMPart III Language, Literacy, and Heritage12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in IdahoLEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research ModelROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social ActionPRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. GREENBAUM, AND GLENN JACOBSNotes on ContributorsAbout the FoundationIndex

Review

"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 *"Collaborating for Change is an invigorating how-to on forging solidarity across activist and academic divides, a blueprint for turning visions of a better world into reality with a step-by-stepaccounting of what works on the frontlines in the struggle for social justice. In a new twist on "thinking global, acting local," this powerful and instructive volume illustrates the magic thathappens when committed, thoughtful people bring their special knowledge and expertise to bear on a common goal." -- Alisse Waterston * author with illustrator Charlotte Hollands, of the forthcoming graphic book, Light in Dark Times: Th *"Each part of Collaborating for Change presents participatory action research from different communities and with different goals. What connects them is a shared rejection of the notion that academic research and community organizing are separate, and in fact, they show that blurring the lines between these practices strengthens each....While the findings they present are supported by the data and, while every research project led to significant policy changes, [some] succeeded beyond this [and] most clearly captured the power of praxis in language new researchers can absorb." * AnthroSource *"The greatest strength of this casebook is that it includes numerous rich, detailed examples that illustrate PAR processes, including their strengths and contributions as well as challenges and obstacles. Each chapter is co-authored and focuses on a PAR process funded by the SIF. For those hungry for examples, this casebook is a feast." * Contemporary Sociology *"Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook is a particularly timely publication considering the influx in momentum for social justice movements during 2020....[A] quality overview of PAR as an epistemology and method, but its true value lies in the real world examples of how collaborating for change has played out and created co- benefits for researchers, activists, organizations, and communities." * Rural Sociology *"Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research," by Prentice Zinn * Footnotes *

Long Description

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.

Review Quote

"The greatest strength of this casebook is that it includes numerous rich, detailed examples that illustrate PAR processes, including their strengths and contributions as well as challenges and obstacles. Each chapter is co-authored and focuses on a PAR process funded by the SIF. For those hungry for examples, this casebook is a feast."

Promotional "Headline"

The book is unique because it is about projects led by activist organizations and academic researchers in the US who work together to marshal evidence in support of humane policies and progressive change. The issues as well as the methods are carefully laid out, along with the challenges. The volume explores the advantages, obstacles, and contradictions of research partnerships involving community organizations and academic researchers. It challenges conventional beliefs about the roles of researchers and community partners based on examples of successful projects. The book explores forms of social science research that cross social lines and blend the relationships of the observer and the observed, and academic social scientists and laypeople. Research is grounded in the problems and issues facing the US. Epistemological as well as ethical reasons underpin the emphasis on democratizing the research process. Collaborative research helps frame the right questions and enlist partners who can obtain accurate answers. The cases in the book cover a wide range of problems and geography, but they reveal broad similarities in how activists and researchers achieved their goals and disseminated their findings. They offer lessons in organizing as well as validity of research design.

Description for Reader

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.

Details ISBN1978801165 Publisher Rutgers University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1978801165 ISBN-13 9781978801165 Format Hardcover Pages 220 Short Title Collaborating for Change Language English Subtitle A Participatory Action Research Casebook Imprint Rutgers University Press Place of Publication New Brunswick NJ Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-01-17 NZ Release Date 2020-01-17 Author Jennifer Friedenbach UK Release Date 2020-01-30 Edited by Prentice Zinn DEWEY 303.4840973 Publication Date 2020-01-17 Alternative 9781978801158 Illustrations n-a US Release Date 2020-01-17 Audience Age 18-99 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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