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    Collaborating for Change
    A Participatory Action Research Casebook

    Susan D. Greenbaum (Edited by), Glenn Jacobs (Edited by), Prentice Zinn (Edited by), Natalicia R. Tracy (Contributions by), Tim Sieber (Contributions by), Anne Phillips (Contributions by), Betsy Leondar-Wright (Contributions by), Lisa Marie Alatorre (Contributions by), Bilal Mafundi Ali (Contributions by), Jennifer Friedenbach (Contributions by), Chris Herring (Contributions by), TJ Johnston (Contributions by), Dilara Yarbrough (Contributions by), Peggy Kahn (Contributions by), Bill Hoynes (Contributions by), Jonathan Bix (Contributions by), Carl Wilmsen (Contributions by), Diane E. Bush (Contributions by), Victoria Breckwich Vásquez (Contributions by), Rich Heyman (Contributions by), Emily Timm (Contributions by), Pablo Alvarado (Contributions by), Chris Newman (Contributions by), Bliss Requa-Trautz (Contributions by), Nik Theodore (Contributions by), Teófilo L Reyes (Contributions by), Christina Fletes-Romo (Contributions by), Veronica Avila (Contributions by), Gretchen Purser (Contributions by), Kathleen Sexsmith (Contributions by), Fabiola Ortiz Valdez (Contributions by), Rebecca Fuentes (Contributions by), Carly Fox (Contributions by), David A Gadsby (Contributions by), Robert C Chidester (Contributions by), Leontina Hormel (Contributions by), Elliott Moffett (Contributions by), Julian Matthews (Contributions by), Lucinda Simpson (Contributions by), Chris Norden (Contributions by), Robert Elliott (Contributions by), Janne Underriner (Contributions by)

    9781978801158

    Paperback / softback, published 17 January 2020

    220 pages, n-a
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.313 kg

    "The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo.  Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships."
     

    — Susan B. Hyatt, co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education

    "The greatest strength of this casebook is that it includes numerous rich, detailed examples that illustrate PAR processes, including their strengths and contributions as well as challenges and obstacles. Each chapter is co-authored and focuses on a PAR process funded by the SIF. For those hungry for examples, this casebook is a feast."
    — Contemporary Sociology

    "Each part of Collaborating for Change presents participatory action research from different communities and with different goals. What connects them is a shared rejection of the notion that academic research and community organizing are separate, and in fact, they show that blurring the lines between these practices strengthens each....While the findings they present are supported by the data and, while every research project led to significant policy changes, [some] succeeded beyond this [and] most clearly captured the power of praxis in language new researchers can absorb."
    — AnthroSource

    "Collaborating for Change is an invigorating how-to on forging solidarity across activist and academic divides, a blueprint for turning visions of a better world into reality with a step-by-step
    accounting of what works on the frontlines in the struggle for social justice. In a new twist on "thinking global, acting local," this powerful and instructive volume illustrates the magic that
    happens when committed, thoughtful people bring their special knowledge and expertise to bear on a common goal."
    — Alisse Waterston, author with illustrator Charlotte Hollands, of the forthcoming graphic book, Light in Dark Times: Th

    "Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook is a particularly timely publication considering the influx in momentum for social justice movements during 2020....[A] quality overview of PAR as an epistemology and method, but its true value lies in the real world examples of how collaborating for change has played out and created co- benefits for researchers, activists, organizations, and communities."
    — Rural Sociology

    "Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research," by Prentice Zinn
    — Footnotes

    Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects.  Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading.  The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice.  Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process.  Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched.  The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues.
     

    Introduction
    SUSAN D. GREENBAUM
    1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It?
    GLENN JACOBS
    Part I Social Justice Organizing
    3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive
    BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT
    4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research
    LISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH
    5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing
    JONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHN
    Part II Worker Rights Activism
    6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES
    7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots
    TIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY
    8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community
    VICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN
    9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network's Research and Action
    PABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE
    10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York
    CARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH
    11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers
    RICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMM
    Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage
    12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho
    LEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON
    13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model
    ROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER
    14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action
    PRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. GREENBAUM, AND GLENN JACOBS
    Notes on Contributors
    About the Foundation
    Index
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