Maculate Conceptions: Power, Process, and Creativity in Participatory Research

Autor/inn/en	Lyon, Alexandra; Bell, Michael; Croll, Nora Swan; Jackson, Randall; Gratton, Claudio
Titel	Maculate Conceptions: Power, Process, and Creativity in Participatory Research
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 75 (2010) 4, S.538-559 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
DOI	10.1111/j.1549-0831.2010.00030.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Participatory Research; Guidelines; Researchers; Research Methodology; Creativity; Rural Farm Residents; Agricultural Occupations; Rural Sociology; Social Structure; Interpersonal Relationship; Trust (Psychology); Power Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungstätigkeit; Richtlinien; Researcher; Forscher; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Kreativität; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Agrarsoziologie; Sozialstruktur; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	Justifiably concerned about power dynamics between researchers and participants in participatory research, much of the literature proposes guidelines for including participant voices at every step of the research process. We find these guidelines insufficient for dealing with constraints set up by the social organizational structures in which researchers and participants find themselves. We argue that the process of building relationships between scientists and farmers is unavoidably imperfect, but nonetheless necessary and rewarding. We contend that the potential problems of participatory research originate more from the social organizational structures in which it takes place than in failure to follow particular rules. By acknowledging these structures and the resultant interests of participant and researcher we can make room for the messy reality of negotiating participatory relationships. We suggest that transformative engagement can be born of what we term the "maculate conceptions" of dialogic process and the building of mutual trust. (As Provided).
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