Collaborating for Change : : A Participatory Action Research Casebook / / ed. by Susan D. Greenbaum, Glenn Jacobs, Prentice Zinn.

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 r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It?
  • Part I Social Justice Organizing
  • 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive
  • 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research
  • 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing
  • Part II Worker Rights Activism
  • 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center
  • 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots
  • 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community
  • 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action
  • 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York
  • 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers
  • Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage
  • 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho
  • 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model
  • 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action
  • Notes on Contributors
  • About the Foundation
  • Index