Going with the flow? Using participatory action research in physical geography
Going with the flow? Using participatory action research in physical geography
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10.1177/0309133315589707
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2015-07
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G. Whitman;R. Pain;D. Milledge
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G. Whitman;R. Pain;D. Milledge
本文批判性地评价了“参与”在科学环境研究的想法和实践，主张更广泛地吸收自然地理学家的一个更激进的参与式方法。它提出了参与式行动研究（PAR），它提供了一种替代的科学模式，涉及从问题定义到结果的合作和共同生产的研究。我们开始与公众参与环境研究和政策制定的批判性观点。我们认为，许多参与的言论和实践是肤浅的，仅仅侧重于包括相关的公众和利益相关者，或有一个基本的议程，建立信任的科学或决策。这两种取向都与参与性研究和规划起源的激进传统大相径庭。在本文的其余部分，我们说明了一种替代的知识合作生产过程中，报告PAR项目的农场泥浆污染与英国河流信托。我们评估共同产生的知识，参与者的反应和科学过程。建议我们重新定义为专业知识的流通共同生产，我们认为，PAR可以丰富所有参与者的学习，知识和技能，并导致创新和积极的环境成果。深入参与进程的一些结构和体制障碍需要加以解决。
This paper critically appraises the idea and practice of ‘participation’ in scientific environmental research, arguing for the wider uptake by physical geographers of a more radical participatory approach. It proposes participatory action research (PAR), which offers an alternative mode of science, involving collaboration and co-production of research from question definition through to outcomes. We begin with a critical view of public participation in environmental research and policy-making to date. We argue that much rhetoric and practice of participation is shallow, focusing simply on including relevant publics and stakeholders, or having an underlying agenda of building trust in science or policy-making. Both orientations diverge drastically from the radical traditions in which participatory research and planning originate. In the rest of the paper, we illustrate an alternative process of knowledge co-production, reporting on a PAR project on farm slurry pollution conducted with a UK Rivers Trust. We evaluate the knowledge co-produced, the responses of participants and the scientific process. Suggesting that we reframe co-production as the circulation of expertise, we argue that PAR can enrich the learning, knowledge and skills of all those involved and lead to innovation and positive environmental outcomes. A number of structural and institutional barriers to deep participatory processes need to be addressed.