1st Edition
Critically Engaging Participatory Action Research
1. Critically Engaging Participatory Action Research
Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby
2. “Can We Track Human Dignity?”: Critical Participatory Ethics and Care
Caitlin Cahill
3. We Sing the Land: Researching for, with and as Country in North East Arnhem Land, Australia
Bawaka Country including L. Burarrwanga, R. Ganambarr, M. Ganambarr-Stubbs, B. Ganambarr, D. Maymuru, S. Wright, K. Lloyd and S. Suchet-Pearson
4. Radical Imaginings: Queering the Politics and Praxis of Participatory Arts-based Research
John Marnell
5. Mapping Our Home: Using Participatory Mapping to Challenge Police Violence in the South Bronx
Brett Stoudt
6. Using Participatory Action Research for Performing Stories and Imagining Inclusive Communities
Nina Woodrow
7. ‘You Think Too Much!’: Emotional Geographies of Participatory Action Research
Kye Askins
8. Pathways to Scaling Social Inclusion Innovation through Participatory Action Research
Jackie Shaw, Sowmyaa Bharadwaj, Anusaha Chandrasekharan and Dheeraj
9. Movement Memories in the Afterlife of Participatory Action Research (PAR): Dreaming and Forgiveness Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC)?
Amy Ritterbusch
Biography
Sara Kindon has worked for thirty years in community-based, participatory projects with Indigenous communities, women, young people, migrants, and former refugees. She has worked in a range of places, including Costa Rica, Indonesia, Aotearoa, and Oceania. Since 2006, she has provided research support to refugee-background communities and refugee-led organisations advocating for educational equity in the tertiary sector, improved service delivery, and more holistic approaches to refugee resettlement in New Zealand. Using creative and arts-based approaches, this work informed the establishment of the New Zealand National Tertiary Network to Support Refugee Background Learners and the New Zealand government’s new Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship Programme. She is the first female Professor of Human Geography and Development Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, as well as a wife, mother, occasional dancer, and poet.
Rachel Pain is a Professor of Human Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. Her research focuses on violence, fear, and trauma, with a particular interest in gender-based violence, and analyses connections between intimate, community, and international scales. Her work is informed by feminist theory and participatory action research. She collaborates on this research with public and voluntary sector organisations and survivor groups.
Mike Kesby is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. His research focuses on a range of health issues in Southern and Eastern Africa (HIV, sexual health, gender relations, and antimicrobial resistance in UTIs). His work is informed by participatory action research, feminist, post-structuralist, and new materialist theory. He uses participatory video and other creative methods in collaborations with a range of academic, governmental and non-governmental organisations, and grassroots citizens.
