Reflecting on community/academic `collaboration': The challenge of `doing' feminist participatory action research Export

@article{citeulike:4721530, abstract = {This article articulates many of the issues that feminist participatory action researchers confront in attempts to conduct collaborative research with community organizations and the state (see Brydon-Miller, McGuire, \& McIntyre, 2004; Gatenby \& Humphries, 2000; Reid, Tom, \& Frisby, 2006; Sullivan, Bhuyan, Senturia, Shiu-Thornton, \& Ciske, 2005). As recent PhD sociologists, the authors were hired as independent consultants by a provincial ministry 1 to evaluate an initiative to expand service provision to women who had experienced violence by their intimate partners.2 Our analysis of what transpired during this consultancy experience is grounded in our participant observation and a reflective process in which we have engaged, periodically, over the past 10 years. During that time we have articulated, and re-articulated our `story', both informally and formally, through solitary and collaborative writing and rewriting endeavors. Our immersion in this process has yielded ever-evolving understandings of this life experience, and the passage of time has allowed us to refine an analysis because of the distance in time between now and our involvement. We begin by outlining our understanding of feminist participatory action research (FPAR) that informed our work with the ministry, followed by our story of what happened and our sociological analysis of that story. 10.1177/1476750309103261}, author = {Langan, Debra and Morton, Mavis}, citeulike-article-id = {4721530}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476750309103261}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/2/165}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1476750309103261}, journal = {Action Research}, keywords = {engagement, ethnography, feminism, qualitative, women}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {165--184}, posted-at = {2009-07-01 22:56:52}, priority = {2}, title = {Reflecting on community/academic `collaboration': The challenge of `doing' feminist participatory action research}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476750309103261}, volume = {7}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4721530 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4721530 N2 - This article articulates many of the issues that feminist participatory action researchers confront in attempts to conduct collaborative research with community organizations and the state (see Brydon-Miller, McGuire, & McIntyre, 2004; Gatenby & Humphries, 2000; Reid, Tom, & Frisby, 2006; Sullivan, Bhuyan, Senturia, Shiu-Thornton, & Ciske, 2005). As recent PhD sociologists, the authors were hired as independent consultants by a provincial ministry 1 to evaluate an initiative to expand service provision to women who had experienced violence by their intimate partners.2 Our analysis of what transpired during this consultancy experience is grounded in our participant observation and a reflective process in which we have engaged, periodically, over the past 10 years. During that time we have articulated, and re-articulated our `story', both informally and formally, through solitary and collaborative writing and rewriting endeavors. Our immersion in this process has yielded ever-evolving understandings of this life experience, and the passage of time has allowed us to refine an analysis because of the distance in time between now and our involvement. We begin by outlining our understanding of feminist participatory action research (FPAR) that informed our work with the ministry, followed by our story of what happened and our sociological analysis of that story. 10.1177/1476750309103261 IS - 2 JF - Action Research EP - 184 TI - Reflecting on community/academic `collaboration': The challenge of `doing' feminist participatory action research VL - 7 SP - 165 KW - engagement KW - ethnography KW - feminism KW - qualitative KW - women AU - Langan, Debra AU - Morton, Mavis PY - 2009/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476750309103261 ER -