To do and know something together: overcoming the obstacles and challenges of action-research in making better urban worlds

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562_4.8.17278

Keywords:

action-research, collaborative research, community-based research

Abstract

Introduction

References

Athayde S., Silva-Lugo J., Schmink M., Kaiabi A. & Heckenberger M. (2017). «Reconnecting art and science for sustainability: Learning from indigenous knowledge through participatory action-research in the Amazon». Ecology and Society, 22(2), 36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09323-220236.

Boyer E. (1990). Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (T. C. F. for the A. of Teaching, A c. Di). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Boyer E. (1996). «The scholarship of engagement». Journal of Public Service and Outreach, 1(1): 11–20.

Boyte H. & Hollander E. (1999). Wingspread declaration on renewing the civic mission of the American research university. Campus Compact.

Cabrera Medaglia J. (2004). «Access to genetic resources, protection of traditional knowledge, and intellectual property rights: The Costa Rican experience». In S. Twarog & P. Kapoor (eds), Protecting and promoting traditional knowledge: Systems, national experiences and international dimension. United Nations, 197–212.

Cellamare C. (2019). Città fai-da-te: Tra antagonismo e cittadinanza: storie di autorganizzazione urbana. Roma: Donzelli editore.

Chambers R. (1997). Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last. Intermediate Technology Publications.

Checker M. (2005). Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town. New York: NYU Press.

Checker M. (2007). «‘But I Know It’s True’ Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology». Human Organization, 66(2): 112–124.

Cognetti F. & Padovani L. (2017). «New meanings for public housing through the co-production of knowledge. Policies for every day life in marginal neighbourhoods». In E. Bargelli & T. Heitkamp (eds), New Developments in Southern European Housing. Pisa: Pisa University Press.

Fals Borda O. (2016). «Action research in the convergence of disciplines». IIJAR - International Journal of Action Research, 9(2): 155–167.

Fals Borda O. & Rahman M. A. (eds). (1991). Action and knowledge: Breaking the monopoly with participatory action-research. Lanham: Apex Press.

Furco A. (1996). «Service-Learning: A Balanced Approach to Experiential Education». In Service-Learning: A Balanced Approach to Experiential Educatio. Corporation for National Service, 2–6.

Gill H., Purru K. & Lin G. (2012). «In the Midst of Participatory Action Research Practices: Moving towards Decolonizing and Decolonial Praxis». Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.357.

Greenwood D. J. & Levin M. (1998). Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Hall, B. L. (2005). «In from the Cold? Reflections on Participatory Research from 1970-2005». Convergence, 38(1), 5–24.

Heyman J. (2014). «The Border Network for Human Rights: From Community Organizing to Public Policy Action: The Border Network for Human Rights». City & Society, 26(1): 73–95. https:// doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12035.

Kwon S. A. (2008). «Moving from Complaints to Action: Oppositional Consciousness and Collective Action in a Political Community». Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 39(1): 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00005.x.

Lynton E. A. (1983). «A Crisis of Purpose Reexamining the Role of the University». Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 15(7): 18–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.1983.10570016.

Maturana H. R. & Varela F. J. (1980). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company (trad. it. 1985. Autopoiesi e cognizione. La realizzazione del vivente. Venezia: Marsilio).

Newman A. & Safransky S. (2014). «Remapping the Motor City and the Politics of Austerity». Anthropology Now, 6(3): 17–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/19492901.2014.11728447.

Paba G. & Perrone C. (2004). Cittadinanza attiva. Il coinvolgimento degli abitanti nella costruzione della città. Firenze: Alinea.

Porter L., Slade C., Butt A., Rosier J., Perkins T., Crookes L., Inch A., Slade J., Bassa F., Petzer B., Winkler T., Saija L. & Barry J. (2015). «Partnerships of learning for planning education Who is learning what from whom? The beautiful messiness of learning partnerships/Experiential learning partnerships in Australian and New Zealand higher education planning programmes/ Res non verba ? rediscovering the social purpose of planning (and the university): The Westfield Action Research Project/At the coalface, Take 2 : Lessons from students’ critical reflections/ Education for “cubed change”/Unsettling planning education through community-engaged teaching and learning: Reflections on the Indigenous Planning Studio». Planning Theory & Practice, 16(3): 409–434. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2015.1060688.

Reardon K. M. & Raciti A. (2018). «Building the Progressive City One Neighborhood at a Time: The Story of the East St. Louis Action Research Project (USA)». Tracce Urbane, 4: 69–105.

Saija L. (2014). «Writing about engaged scholarship: Misunderstandings and the meaning of “quality” in action research publications». Planning Theory & Practice, 15(2): 187– 201.

Saija L. (2016). La ricerca-azione in pianificazione territoriale e urbanistica. Milano: Franco Angeli.

Saltmarsh J., Giles D. E., Ward E. & Buglione S. M. (2009). «Rewarding community-engaged scholarship». New Directions for Higher Education, 2009(147): 25–35. https://doi.org/10.1002/ he.355.

Schensul S., Schensul J. J., Singer M., Weeks M. & Brault M. (2014). «Participatory methods and community-based collaborations». In Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology. Lahnam: Rowman & Littlefield, Vol. 2, 185–212.

Strand K., Cutforth N., Stoecker R., Marullo S. & Donohue P. (2003). Community-based research and higher education: Principles and practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Votruba J. C. (1992). «Promoting the extension of knowledge in service to society». Metropolitan Universities, 3(3): 72–80.

Whyte W. F. (eds). (1991). Participatory Action Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Downloads

Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Saija, L., & Lambert-Pennington, K. (2020). To do and know something together: overcoming the obstacles and challenges of action-research in making better urban worlds. Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare Di Studi Urbani, 4(8). https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562_4.8.17278