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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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
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