Theoretical and methodological reflections
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As preceding chapters have highlighted, many examples exist of the varying ways in which Participatory Action Researchers work closely with groups to identify needs, plan action research projects, consult and then strive collectively to ‘action’ their findings. The three of us are all involved to varying degrees in such participatory activities, we would define ourselves not as just as action researchers, but also as ‘academic-activists’. Whilst much of our time is spent teaching students, marking essays, and undertaking ever-increasing administrative duties within our increasingly corporatised UK universities, we all consciously strive to bring ourselves into contact with social movement groups struggling for radical social change, and to participate with them in participatory actions and ‘research’. More than this, however, we often share the same struggles as resisting others and hence are deeply embedded in social struggles ourselves. In this chapter we want to reflect upon the similarities and differences between ‘our way’ of doing things, and how (and why) we think it can offer some important additions to what has come to commonly be regarded as Participatory Action Research (PAR). Some academics have taken the need for what might be termed emancipatory or solidarity research seriously, particularly within our own discipline of geography (for example, Blomley 1994; Maxey 1999). It is through this disciplinary lens that we want to reflect on how we relate action to activism, and what this might mean for the undertaking of PAR more generally within the social and environmental sciences. In a sense, then, our chapter refers to and expands upon the previous discussion about liberatory PAR (see Cameron, Chapter 24 in this volume) and reasserts the importance of solidarity and activism.
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