Full Description
This volume expands conversations about participatory, community-engaged, and action-oriented research that inspires social change.
The authors contend that long-term community partnerships, inspired by solidarity and characterized by equality and reciprocity, result in a deep understanding of community concerns and increase the likelihood that research findings will have an impact on both the community partners and the broader society. Such research relationships, the authors maintain, are best understood as accompaniment. This book recognizes the potential as well as constraints of conceptualizing research as accompaniment and emphasizes that this approach is both a continuum and a process.
Suitable for students and scholars of ethnographic and qualitative methods (and professionals using those methods, such as those in non-government organizations), it will appeal to those interested in research with communities in a wide variety of social science and other disciplines, including anthropology, nursing, and public health, amongst others.
Contents
Foreword Introduction Part 1. Conceptual Framework 1. Accompaniment and Its Implications: Committed Scholarship Amid Sociopolitical Conflicts in Latin America Part 2. Case Studies 2. Participatory Archiving as Accompaniment: Co-Curating an Archive of 2SLGBTQ+ Youth-Produced Art for Exhibition and Solidarity Building 3. Caring as the Accompagnateur: The Augsburg Health Commons 4. Cooking and Conversation: Nursing Accompaniment for Health With Refugee Families 5. Emboldening Ethnography Through a Framework of Care and Respect 6. Accompanying Rural Development: The Knowledge Partnering Methodology 7. Listening Is Fertile, "Service" Is Thorny: Accompaniment Starts in Your Backyard 8. Critical Examination of Community-Based Research With a Roma Community in Hungary 9. Accompaniment Embedded in Long-Term Relationships: Research With the Karenni Community in Omaha, Nebraska 10. Expanding Accompaniment: From Relationships to Relational Accountability Part 3. Research as Accompaniment 11. Research as a Potential Mode for Ecopsychosocial Accompaniment Part 4. Reactions 12. Professional and Community Responses
