Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research

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This book examines a number of research case studies in different methodological contexts to explicate the widely discussed but undertheorized issue of research facilitation. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgements Thinking through Research Facilitation: An Introduction What Is Facilitation? Why Talk about Facilitation Now? Facilitating during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Organization of the Book Part I: Troubling Equity within Research Facilitation Part II: Facilitating in the Digital Realm Part III: Ethics and Facilitation in Research Processes Part IV: Art and Ethical Practices in Research Facilitation Why Facilitation Matters References Part I: Troubling Equity within Research Facilitation Chapter 1: “If You’re Going to Work with Black People, You Have to Think About These Things!”: A Case Study of Fostering an Ethical Research Process with a Black Canadian Community Introduction Background Exploitative and Harmful Histories of Academic Research with Black Communities Recent Thinking/Directions in Ethical Research Practices with Black Communities Brief Overview of the Project Anti-Racist Interpretation of the TCPS II Core Principles Respecting Participants of Black Communities Attending to the Welfare of Participants from Black Communities Facilitating Justice Lessons Learned Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2: Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared: Reflections on Doing Research in Collaboration with Sex Workers and Sex Worker-led Organizations Introduction Legal Context of Sex Work COVID-19, Canadian Emergency Income Support, and Sex Workers Introducing Our Collaborative Research Project Discussion: Ten Questions to Consider When Researching Sex Work/ers What Is Your Relationship to Commercial Sex Industries? Has the Research Already Been Done? Who Benefits Most from the Research? Do You Really Need to Bother Sex Workers to Do Useful Research? What Role Do Sex Workers Have in Shaping the Research Project? How Are You Compensating Sex Workers for Their Time? How Will You Protect Your Research Participants' Privacy? Who Owns the Research Outputs? How Generalizable Will Your Findings Be? How Will Your Research Be Mobilized beyond Academia? Conclusion Notes References Legislation Chapter 3: Researcher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense: Engaging African Decolonial Practices in a Critical Mathematics Education Project Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Music Methodology Bridging FAM with Sankofa and Ubuntu The Research Context Bringing My Whole Self into This Research Ethical Facilitation in Action Vignette 1: Facilitation as Co-learning Vignette 2: Facilitation as Disruption Vignette 3: Facilitation Leading to Joy Lessons Learned in Ethical Facilitation Ethics as a Continuous Process Comfort with Discomfort Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Chapter 4: Decolonizing from the Roots: A Community-Led Approach to Critical Qualitative Health Research Introduction Locating the Self Building Relations Decolonization as Praxis The Ethics of Decolonization Notes References Chapter 5: A Reflexive Account of Performing Facilitation in Participatory Visual Research for Social Change Introduction Situating Ourselves Framing Facilitation Reflexivity of Discomfort Method Method 1: Autoethnographic Performance Method II: Reflexive Revisiting Four Autoethnographic Performances and Reflections Jen: Textures of Trust Reflections on Trust and Trustworthiness Milka: To Facilitate and Participate? Interrogating the Limits to Facilitation in Arts-based Participatory Visual Workshops Reflection Claudia: In the Bag Reflecting on “in the Bag” Katie: Cellphilm Method Steps Performance Reflections Towards a Pedagogy of Transformative Facilitation References Part II: Facilitating in the Digital Realm Chapter 6: “Nah You’re My Sisters for Real!”: Utilizing Instagram and Mobile Phones to Facilitate Feminist Conversations with Asian Migrant Women in Aotearoa Introduction Feminism and (Re)Situating Asian Migrant Women Zines and DIY Self-Publishing Fourth-wave Feminism, Mobile Phones, and Instagram From Prompts to Feminist Conversations Conclusion Notes References Chapter 7: Facilitation as Listening in Three Community-Based Media Projects Introduction Toronto: Listening as Intersubjective Invitation and Reverie New York: Listening and the Play of Curiosity Montreal: Aesthetic Listening and Making Stories Public Conclusion: Facilitator as Good-Enough Listener Notes References Chapter 8: Theorizing Non-Participation in a Mail-Based Participatory Visual Research Project with 2SLGBTQ+ Youth in Atlantic Canada Introduction Pride/Swell: Conceptualizing Participatory Art-Making and Archiving Positionality Participatory Visual Research with Queer Youth Theorizing Non-Participation within and beyond Participatory Visual Research Pride/Swell Non-Participation in the Project On Zoom Through Art Production In the Digital Archives Calling for Participation in Response to Our Artworks Discussion and Concluding Thoughts References Part III: Ethics and Facilitation in Research Processes Chapter 9: Research Assistants as Knowledge Co-Producers: Reflections Beyond Fieldwork Ethical Grey Areas in Research Facilitation: The Problems with Research Ethics Ethical Dilemmas and Blurred Covert-Overt Boundaries Disclosure of Information Negotiation on Language Choice The Ethics of Covert Elements in Research Grey Spaces in Research Ethics The “Everyday” Quality of Ethically Important Decisions The Role of Research Assistants: From Positionality to Research Ethics The Invisibility of Research Assistants Beyond Fieldwork and Furthering Other’s Grand Design Blurred Insider-Outsider Statuses On Positionality and Research Ethics Research Assistants beyond Fieldwork: Impact on Research Ethics and Contributions in Knowledge Co-production Moral and Intellectual Capacities of Research Assistants Conclusion Acknowledgements References Chapter 10: Injustice in Incentives?: Facilitating Equitable Research with People Living with Poverty Introduction Positioning Ourselves History of the TCPS and a Literature Review Inconsistent Application of Incentives Rules Our Experiences Recommendations and Conclusion Notes References Chapter 11: Queering Pride Facilitation: An Autoethnography of Community Organizing Introduction Theory and Method Context Inclusion Ownership Queering Progress Conclusion Notes References Part IV: Art and Ethical Research Practices in Research Facilitation Chapter 12: Facilitating Queer Art in the Climate Crisis Introduction Space, Place, and NAFTA Processing, Facilitation, and Art Making Lesbian Processing, Queer Facilitation Conclusions Note References Chapter 13: Ethnodramatic Inqueery Introduction Intersectionality Facilitating Ethnodramatic Inqueery Ethics of Transparency and Representation Performances Enthnodramatic Inqueery and Aesthetics Impact of Ethnodramatic Inqueery References Chapter 14: Round and Round the Carousel Papers: Facilitating a Visual Interactive Dialogue with Young People Research Team Positionality Participatory Research with Young People Participatory Visual Methodologies Carousel Papers Using Carousel Papers in the Time to Teach Project YIWU Workshop Adaptations Rangers Workshop Guys Group Workshop Data Analysis Reflections Notes References Chapter 15: Screening Stories: Methodological Considerations for Facilitating Critical Audience Engagement Introduction Participatory Visual Methodologies, Cellphilming, and Audiencing Methods Audience Engagement Data Collection Facilitating the Screenings A Tale of Four Screenings Underhoused Youth Group Young Parents Group Sex Shop Customers HIV+ Youth Support Group What Can Be Drawn from These Experiences? Dialogue and Echo Chambers Facilitator Roles and Identities Facilitating (non) Participation Attendance and Advertising What Does This Mean for Other Community-Based, Participatory Visual Researchers? Conclusion Acknowledgements Note References Chapter 16: “Becoming I/We” Together as Critical Performance Pedagogy: Facilitating Intra-Actions and Metissage from Inhabiting/Living Practice Introduction Lap-Xuan Do-Nguyen: I. II. III. IV. Samira Jamouchi: Prelude Becoming an Assemblage Entanglement, Togetherness, and Intra-Action The Performative Power of an Encounter: From “I” to “WE” Yoriko Gillard: Note References Chapter 17: What We Think We Know for Sure: Some Concluding Thoughts on Facilitation Introduction Established Problems in Research Facilitation Compensation Surveillance by Government Agencies Collaboration Racial Dynamics Culturally Responsive Facilitation Querying Decolonial Claims in Community-based Research Confronting Whiteness Listening as a Key to Facilitation Non-Participation Facilitating through Trauma and through the Unanticipated Facilitating Community through COVID-19 Future Sites of Inquiry References Index