Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development

Edited by Randy Stoecker, Professor and Director of the Applied Population Laboratory, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Adrienne Falcón, Professor and Director of the Masters of Advocacy and Political Leadership, Chair of the Public and Nonprofit Leadership Department, Metropolitan State University, US

‘The authors in this illuminating volume represent a diverse array of places, positions, and participatory initiatives. Their thoughtful analyses of their specific contexts and approaches to knowledge production and community change offer rich theoretical insights and examples that will be useful to students, faculty, and practitioners interested in collaborative research and action.’

• Contents:1 Introduction: reflecting upon the development of participatory actionresearch and community development efforts 1Randy Stoecker and Adrienne FalcónPART I STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES FOR INTEGRATINGPARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH ANDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT2 Flipping the script: community-initiated urban research with the LiberalArts Action Lab 23Megan Brown, Jack Dougherty, and Jeff Partridge3 Toward a community development science shop model: insights fromPeterborough, Haliburton and the Kawartha Lakes 43Randy Stoecker, Todd Barr, and Mark Skinner4 Elevating community voices 60Jenice Meyer and Katelyn Baumann5 Sociocultural intervention as a resource for social transformation inCuban communities of the twenty-first century 80Manuel Martínez Casanova and Adrienne FalcónPART II ORGANIZING COMMUNITIES6 Community organizing for environmental change: integrating researchin support of organized actions 99Dadit G. Hidayat and Molly Schwebach7 The birth of a community of practice in Québec to support communityorganizations leading participatory action research as a tool forcommunity development: what it teaches us 118Lucie Gélineau, Sophie Dupéré, Marie-Jade Gagnon, Lyne Gilbert, IsabelBernier, Nicole Bouchard, Julie Richard, and Marie-Hélène Deshaies8 The centrality of storytelling at the nexus of academia and communityorganizing in rural Kentucky 139Nicole Breazeale, Dana Beasley-Brown, Samantha Johnson, and Alexa HatcherPART III BUILDING ORGANIZATIONS AND NEIGHBORHOODS9 Putting theory into practice: leveraging community-based research toachieve community-based outcomes in DeLand, Florida 160Maxwell Droznin, Kelsey Maglio, Asal M. Johnson, Cristian Cuevas, andShilretha Dixon10 From mission to praxis in neighborhood work: lessons learned froma three-year faculty/community development initiative 180Laura L. O’Toole, Nancy E. Gordon, and Jessica L. Walsh11 Early childhood wellness through asset-based community development:a participatory evaluation of Communities Acting for Kids’ Empowerment 200Farrah Jacquez, Michael Topmiller, Jamie-Lee Morris, Alexander Shelton,Cynthia Wooten, Lakisha A. Best, Alan Dicken, Monica Arenas-Losacker,Giovanna Alvarez, Crystal Davis, and Shanah Cole12 The complexities of participatory action research: a communitydevelopment project in Bangladesh 218Larry Stillman, Misita Anwar, Gillian Oliver, Viviane Frings-Hessami,Anindita Sarker, and Nova AhmedPART IV GROWING YOUTH POWER13 Youth participatory action research as an approach to developingcommunity-level responses to youth homelessness in the United States:learning from Advocates for Richmond Youth 239M. Alex Wagaman, Kimberly S. Compton, Tiffany S. Haynes, Jae Lange,Elaine G. Williams, and Rae Caballero Obejero14 Volunteerism as a vehicle for civil society development in Ukraine:a community-based project to develop youth volunteerism ina Ukrainian community 259Danielle Stevens, Tetiana Kidruk, and Oleh Petrus15 Design your neighborhood: the evolution of a city-wide urban designlearning initiative in Nashville, Tennessee 281Kathryn Y. Morgan, Brian D. Christens, and Melody GibsonPART V RESPONDING TO CRISIS16 Rethinking participatory development in the context of a strong state 302Ming Hu17 Tracing power from within: learning from participatory action researchand community development projects in food systems during theCOVID-19 pandemic 321Laura Jessee Livingston18 The information and knowledge landscapes of mutual aid: howlibrarians can use participatory action research to support socialmovements in community development 341Alessandra SeiterPART VI EXPANDING OUR THINKING19 Be and build the city: an experience of sociopraxis in Cuenca, Ecuador 359Ana Elisa Astudillo and Ana Cecilia Salazar20 Leading with locally produced knowledge: development in Jemna, Tunisia 379Ihsan Mejdi and Celeste Koppe21 Relationship as resistance: partnership and vivencia in participatoryaction research 394José Wellington Sousa22 Re-storying participatory action research: a narrative approach tochallenging epistemic violence in community development 415Daniel Bryan and Chelsea ViteriIndex