Displacement of the Scholar? Participatory Action Research Under COVID-19
Displacement of the Scholar? Participatory Action Research Under COVID-19
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DOI：
10.3389/fsufs.2022.762065
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发表时间：
2022-02-18
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Walsh, Elizabeth A.
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作者：
Auerbach, Jeremy;Munoz, Solange;Walsh, Elizabeth A.
COVID-19对开展研究的影响是深远的，特别是对于那些为社区工作或与社区一起工作的学者。由于这一流行病继续造成和加剧处于边缘地位的社区在大流行病前面临的许多问题，如健康差距和获得资源的机会，它也给合作、共同开发的参与性研究和非政府组织行动造成了特别的困难。这些形式的社区参与要求研究人员承诺超越种族化的资本主义和新自由主义结构和机构的范围，这些结构和机构往往限制我们的研究和参与的范围。研究人员在社区内的存在以及社区对研究人员的深刻信任都是必要的，以便确定和优先考虑当地的，往往是反霸权形式的知识生产，资源和支持网络。流行病和类似的危机情况可能限制了建立长期、富有成效的互信和互惠关系的机会，而社区则重新关注满足基本需求。这一大流行病现在不仅加剧了现有的差距，使人们更加需要参与、关键和共同创造的伙伴关系，而且还突然中断了建立伙伴关系的机会，进一步限制了支持社区与研究人员建立伙伴关系的资金。在本文中，我们突出的成就，并讨论了参与行动研究人员从外地和课堂，如资金障碍和远程工作的流离失所所带来的许多挑战。通过对学者的位移经验的分析，揭示了在学术资本主义状态下，在危机期间进行PAR的冲突。这些经验来自我们在地球仪的城市和农村环境中以及在不同参与阶段开展的PAR工作。从这些调查结果的情况下，从同行的经验和机构支持PAR相互学习。随着未来危机的预期，需要增加数字资源和基础设施，学术灵活性和更多地考虑PAR，增加对PAR的资助，并为PAR提供专门的机构支持计划。
The impact of COVID-19 on conducting research is far-reaching, especially for those scholars working for or alongside communities. As the pandemic continues to create and exacerbate many of the issues that communities at the margins faced pre-pandemic, such as health disparities and access to resources, it also creates particular difficulties in collaborative, co-developed participatory research and scholar-activism. These forms of community engagement require the commitment of researchers to look beyond the purview of the racialized capitalist and neoliberal structures and institutions that tend to limit the scope of our research and engagement. Both the presence of the researcher within the community as well as deep community trust in the researcher is required in order to identify and prioritize local, often counter-hegemonic forms of knowledge production, resources, and support networks. The pandemic and similar conditions of crises has likely limited opportunities for building long-term, productive relationships of mutual trust and reciprocity needed for PAR while communities refocus on meeting basic needs. The pandemic has now not only exacerbated existing disparities and made the need for engaged, critical and co-creative partnerships even greater, it has also abruptly halted opportunities for partnerships to occur, and further constrained funds to support communities partnering with researchers. In this paper we highlight accomplishments and discuss the many challenges that arise as participatory action researchers are displaced from the field and classroom, such as funding obstacles and working remotely. An analysis of experiences of the displacement of the scholar exposes the conflicts of conducting PAR during crises within a state of academic capitalism. These experiences are drawn from our work conducting PAR during COVID-19 around the globe, both in urban and rural settings, and during different stages of engagement. From these findings the case is made for mutual learning from peer-experiences and institutional support for PAR. As future crises are expected, increased digital resources and infrastructure, academic flexibility and greater consideration of PAR, increased funding for PAR, and dedicated institutional support programs for PAR are needed.