Mapping Collaboration as Resistance to Neoliberalism: A Case Study of Participatory Action Research in Puerto Rico
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562_4.8.17220Parole chiave:
Participatory action research, austerity, solidarityAbstract
La ricerca-azione partecipativa (RAP) è una metodologia di ricerca e una forma non gerarchica di produzione di conoscenza che riunisce partecipanti provenienti dal mondo accademico e dalla comunità locale in un partenariato di ricerca collaborativa che mira alla trasformazione sociale. In questo contributo discuto uno studio qualitativo della durata di un anno che ho condotto in un campus universitario pubblico a Cayey, Porto Rico, esaminando etnograficamente il rapporto di collaborazione tra le persone coinvolte in un processo di RAP. Il contesto della ricerca era un corso interdisciplinare che ho tenuto durante l’anno accademico 2019-2020. Nel contributo, discuto alcune delle sfide della RAP in un contesto istituzionale precario e metto in evidenza i modi in cui il gruppo di ricerca ha superato questi ostacoli. Di fronte a una recessione iniziata nel 2006 e all’imposizione di un Consiglio di Amministrazione e Controllo Fiscale da parte del Congresso degli Stati Uniti, l’esistenza dell’unica università pubblica di Porto Rico è minacciata di drastici tagli di bilancio. Sostengo l’importanza della collaborazione e della solidarietà nel contesto della realtà fiscale, sociale e politica di Porto Rico.
Participatory action research (PAR) is both a research methodology and nonhierarchical form of knowledge production that brings together participants, from academia and outside communities, in a collaborative research partnership that seeks social transformation. Drawing on fieldwork spanning the 2019-2020, I present a case study of an interdisciplinary undergraduate research course I taught at a campus of Puerto Rico’s only public university. I illuminate the challenges of initiating PAR in the Puerto Rican archipelago, a non-sovereign US territory; I discuss some of the lessons learned throughout the collaborative partnership and conclude by offering possible avenues in PAR grounded in a prefigurative politics of liberation.
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