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

Contents:

1 Introduction: reflecting upon the development of participatory action
research and community development efforts 1
Randy Stoecker and Adrienne Falcón

PART I STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES FOR INTEGRATING
PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH AND
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2 Flipping the script: community-initiated urban research with the Liberal
Arts Action Lab 23
Megan Brown, Jack Dougherty, and Jeff Partridge
3 Toward a community development science shop model: insights from
Peterborough, Haliburton and the Kawartha Lakes 43
Randy Stoecker, Todd Barr, and Mark Skinner
4 Elevating community voices 60
Jenice Meyer and Katelyn Baumann
5 Sociocultural intervention as a resource for social transformation in
Cuban communities of the twenty-first century 80
Manuel Martínez Casanova and Adrienne Falcón

PART II ORGANIZING COMMUNITIES
6 Community organizing for environmental change: integrating research
in support of organized actions 99
Dadit G. Hidayat and Molly Schwebach
7 The birth of a community of practice in Québec to support community
organizations leading participatory action research as a tool for
community development: what it teaches us 118
Lucie Gélineau, Sophie Dupéré, Marie-Jade Gagnon, Lyne Gilbert, Isabel
Bernier, Nicole Bouchard, Julie Richard, and Marie-Hélène Deshaies
8 The centrality of storytelling at the nexus of academia and community
organizing in rural Kentucky 139
Nicole Breazeale, Dana Beasley-Brown, Samantha Johnson, and Alexa Hatcher

PART III BUILDING ORGANIZATIONS AND NEIGHBORHOODS
9 Putting theory into practice: leveraging community-based research to
achieve community-based outcomes in DeLand, Florida 160
Maxwell Droznin, Kelsey Maglio, Asal M. Johnson, Cristian Cuevas, and
Shilretha Dixon
10 From mission to praxis in neighborhood work: lessons learned from
a three-year faculty/community development initiative 180
Laura L. O’Toole, Nancy E. Gordon, and Jessica L. Walsh
11 Early childhood wellness through asset-based community development:
a participatory evaluation of Communities Acting for Kids’ Empowerment 200
Farrah Jacquez, Michael Topmiller, Jamie-Lee Morris, Alexander Shelton,
Cynthia Wooten, Lakisha A. Best, Alan Dicken, Monica Arenas-Losacker,
Giovanna Alvarez, Crystal Davis, and Shanah Cole
12 The complexities of participatory action research: a community
development project in Bangladesh 218
Larry Stillman, Misita Anwar, Gillian Oliver, Viviane Frings-Hessami,
Anindita Sarker, and Nova Ahmed

PART IV GROWING YOUTH POWER
13 Youth participatory action research as an approach to developing
community-level responses to youth homelessness in the United States:
learning from Advocates for Richmond Youth 239
M. Alex Wagaman, Kimberly S. Compton, Tiffany S. Haynes, Jae Lange,
Elaine G. Williams, and Rae Caballero Obejero
14 Volunteerism as a vehicle for civil society development in Ukraine:
a community-based project to develop youth volunteerism in
a Ukrainian community 259
Danielle Stevens, Tetiana Kidruk, and Oleh Petrus
15 Design your neighborhood: the evolution of a city-wide urban design
learning initiative in Nashville, Tennessee 281
Kathryn Y. Morgan, Brian D. Christens, and Melody Gibson

PART V RESPONDING TO CRISIS
16 Rethinking participatory development in the context of a strong state 302
Ming Hu
17 Tracing power from within: learning from participatory action research
and community development projects in food systems during the
COVID-19 pandemic 321
Laura Jessee Livingston
18 The information and knowledge landscapes of mutual aid: how
librarians can use participatory action research to support social
movements in community development 341
Alessandra Seiter

PART VI EXPANDING OUR THINKING
19 Be and build the city: an experience of sociopraxis in Cuenca, Ecuador 359
Ana Elisa Astudillo and Ana Cecilia Salazar
20 Leading with locally produced knowledge: development in Jemna, Tunisia 379
Ihsan Mejdi and Celeste Koppe
21 Relationship as resistance: partnership and vivencia in participatory
action research 394
José Wellington Sousa
22 Re-storying participatory action research: a narrative approach to
challenging epistemic violence in community development 415
Daniel Bryan and Chelsea Viteri

Index