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    Critical Futures
    Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation

    Stuart Poyntz (Edited by), Kari Grain (Edited by), Am Johal (Edited by)

    9781487550202

    Paperback / softback, published 16 December 2025

    384 pages, 13 illustrations
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.62 kg

    Critical Futures explores the evolving landscape of community-engaged research (CER) in a time of unprecedented social, political, and environmental crises. This collection brings together leading scholars, community researchers, and activists to examine the intersection of CER with social justice, decolonization, and transformation.

    The book explores the reimagining of CER and decolonizing research practices and offers case studies from the field. Through essays and contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the book highlights the need for ethical, equitable collaboration that transcends traditional academic hierarchies. It addresses topics including the role of solidarity in research, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CER, Indigenous and Two-Spirit community research, and the critical importance of addressing power dynamics in university-community partnerships.

    With a focus on justice and the creation of new collective possibilities, Critical Futures provides both theoretical frameworks and practical examples that inspire a rethinking of how community research can contribute to a more just and sustainable future. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of research that is rooted in social change and community engagement.

    Foreword
    Timothy K. Eatman

    Introduction: Crisis and Social Transformation in Community-Engaged Research
    Stuart R. Poyntz, Am Johal, and Kari Grain

    Part 1: Transformations, Complexities, and Critical Conversations

    Introduction: Reimagining Community-Engaged Research

    1. Pushing Against, Reaching Towards: Commitments, Contingencies, and Contestations in Community-Engaged Research and Practice
    Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Sarah Switzer

    2. Community-Engaged Research and the “Right to be Rural”
    Sean Markey, S. Ashleigh Weeden, Ryan Gibson, Greg Halseth, and Laura Ryser

    3. Money, Power, and Reciprocity: Financial Transactions and Critical Reciprocity in Community-Engaged Research
    Vanessa Fong, Kari Grain, Stuart R. Poyntz, and Amanda Wager

    4. How Community-Engaged Research and Learning Became “Work-Integrated Learning” (WIL): The Shifting Discourses of Canadian Experiential Learning
    David Peacock

    5. Relational Soil Care: A Community-Engaged Response to Global Soil Crisis
    Katherine Lawless, David Janzen, and Ed Gregorich

    6. The Ethics of Care in a Pandemic: Weaving Together Anti-Racist Practice and Disability Justice in our Community-Engaged Work
    Ciann Wilson and Natalie Kivell

    7. Your $20 Starbucks Gift Card Isn’t Helping: A Conversation about Community-Based Research as a Cooperative Undertaking
    Adam Gaudry and Matt Hern

    Part 2: Decolonization and Indigenization

    Introduction: Decolonization and Decolonizing Practices in CER

    8. Community-Engaged Research for Self-Determination: Decolonial Urban Strategies
    Lyana Patrick

    9. Relational Accountability and Reconcilia(c)tion in Two-Spirit Research and Education
    Harlan Pruden and Travis Salway

    10. The Elephant in the Room: Tokenism, Currency, and Dispossession in Community-Engaged Research
    Jessica Hallenbeck and Rosemary Georgeson

    11. “The Circle”: Circular and Relational Research in Response to Complexity and Crisis
    Sharon Karsten

    12. Decolonizing Community-Based Research: A Four Quadrants Approach to Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 on Elders and Seniors
    Crystal Tremblay, Tanya Clarmont, Lisa Mercure, Emily Dzyngel, and Katie Dzyngel

    Part 3: Case Studies and Field Perspectives

    Introduction: Case Studies from the Field

    13. Changing the System: Steps Towards Empowering Community Governance of Research Ethics in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
    Scott D. Neufeld, Jules Chapman, Nicholas D. Leech (Crier), Samona Marsh, and Jim McLeod

    14. Art at Work and Workers as Artists: Project Thinking, Craft, and Creativity in Community-Engaged Research
    Will Garrett-Petts and Evelyn Asiedu

    15. Exploring Transformative Reciprocity in Community-Engaged Learning
    Rhianna Nagel, Alexandra Haupt, Kathy Sanford, Lilaine Galway, and Lisa Mort-Putland

    16. Learning in Public: Towards Critically Hopeful Practices in a CER Support Unit
    Elizabeth Jackson

    17. Seizing the Moment: Community-Campus Conversations to Support Communities Through and Beyond the Pandemic
    Lynn Gidluck, Amber J. Fletcher, and Magda Goemans

    18. Using Dialogic Methods and Tools to Identify Accessible Collaboration Pathways between Communities and Campuses: A Case Study with Ashoka Fellows and Changemaker Campuses
    Charmaine Lyn, Nicole Norris, and Jennifer DeCoste

    Conclusion: The Future of Community-Engaged Research
    Stuart R. Poyntz, Kari Grain, and Am Johal

    Contributors
    Index
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