Facilitating Community Research for Social Change

<p><em>Facilitating Community Research for Social Change</em> asks: what does ethical research facilitation look like in projects that seek to move toward social change? How can scholars weave political and social justice through multiple levels of the research process? </p><p>This edited collection presents chapters that investigate research facilitation in ways that specifically attempt to disrupt and challenge anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, patriarchy, and sexism to work toward social change. It also explores what it means to develop facilitation practices across multiple contexts and research settings, including specific facilitation methods considered by researchers working with visual and community-based methods with Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities. The complexities of how scholars negotiate decisions within their research with people and communities have an effect not only on how researchers construct their participants and communities, but also on the overall purpose of projects, the ways their projects are shared and disseminated, and what is learned in the doing of facilitation. </p><p>This book will be of great interest to both emerging and established researchers working within the social sciences. It specifically attends to diverse fields within the social sciences that include health, media studies, environmental studies, social work, sociology, education, participatory visual research methodologies, as well as the evolving field of digital humanities. </p> <p>Thinking through Research Facilitation: An Introduction; <b>Part I: Troubling Equity within Research Facilitation </b>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 2. Lessons Learned, Lessons Shared: Reflections on Doing Research in Collaboration with Sex Workers and Sex Worker-Led Organizations 3. Researcher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense: Engaging African Decolonial Practices in a Critical Mathematics Education Project 4. Decolonizing from the Roots: A Community-Led Approach to Critical Qualitative Health Research 5. A Reflexive Account of Performing Facilitation in Participatory Visual Research for Social Change; <b>Part II: Facilitating in the Digital Realm </b>6. "Nah You’re My Sisters for Real!": Utilizing Instagram and Mobile Phones to Facilitate Feminist Conversations with Asian Migrant Women in Aotearoa 7. Facilitation as Listening in Three Community-Based Media Projects 8. Theorizing Non-Participation in a Mail-Based Participatory Visual Research Project with 2SLGBTQ+ Youth in Atlantic Canada; <b>Part III: Ethics and Facilitation in Research Processes </b>9. Research Assistants as Knowledge Co-Producers: Reflections Beyond Fieldwork 10. Injustice in Incentives? Facilitating Equitable Research with People Living with Poverty 11. Queering Pride Facilitation: An Autoethnography of Community Organizing; <b>Part IV: Art and Ethical Research Practices in Research Facilitation </b>12. Facilitating Queer Art in the Climate Crisis 13. Ethnodramatic Inqueery 14. Round and Round the Carousel Papers: Facilitating a Visual Interactive Dialogue with Young People 15. Screening Stories: Methodological Considerations for Facilitating Critical Audience Engagement 16. "Becoming I / We" Together as Critical Performance Pedagogy: Facilitating Intra-Actions and Metissage from Inhabiting/Living Practice 17. What We Think We Know for Sure: Some Concluding Thoughts on Facilitation</p>