Essentials of critical participatory action research / Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Critical Participatory Action Research: Conceptual Foundations -- Why CPAR? Critical Elements -- Where Collective Wisdom Grows: Participatory Contact Zones -- Situating CPAR in the Qualitative Traditions -- Critical Epistemological Roots: Widening Our Understanding of Expertise -- Disciplinary Elders: Historical Roots in Community-Based Inquiry -- Crafting and Performing Public-Facing Scholarship for Action, Transformation, and Provocation -- 2. Participatory Design -- Assembling a Diverse Community of Coresearchers -- Designing Mirrors and Windows -- Images of Opening Sessions -- Methodological Release Points: Strategies for Unleashing Collective Wisdom -- A Cautionary Note on Privilege in the Contact Zone -- Building an Ethical Research Collective: Ethics and Institutional Review Boards -- 3. Participatory Knowledge Production -- Piloting: Accountability to and Feedback From the Community -- Finalizing the Instrument: A Qualitative Participatory National Survey? -- Cascading Research Questions: Evolving Inquiries in the Participatory Contact Zone -- Growing a Sample of Radical Inclusivity and Structural Intersectionality -- Inquiry Marinating in Communities of Care, Concern, and Action -- 4. Participatory Analysis Moving Toward Action -- Slicing the Data -- Steps of Participatory Analysis: Culling the Database, Macro Review, and Then Coding -- Coding: The Stories and Analysis -- Creating a Codebook -- Bending Analysis Toward Action -- 5. Vibrant Variations And Grounding Questions -- Grounding Questions for Critical Participatory Inquiry -- Participatory Research as a Tool of Struggle and Solidarity in Contentious Times -- Challenges and Joys -- 6. Methodological Integrity -- Fidelity and Diversity -- To Be of Use: Action, Transformation, and Provocation -- CPAR Touchstones for Integrity and Accountability -- Evaluating CPAR: How Do You Know Whether It Is Good Enough? -- 7. Writing Process And Research Products.

"The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data. In this book, Michelle Fine and Maria Elena Torre provide an introduction to participant action research, an approach that reveals the everyday stories of struggle and survival of the persons being studied, combats social injustice, and leverages social science research for action. Participant action research challenged the traditional and narrow ways in which research has been conducted and elevates the voices and perspectives of formerly marginalized groups. About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods"-- Provided by publisher.