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SPIRAL #10 November-December
March 8th, 2009
*Systemic - Participatory - Inquiry - Research - Action - Learning*
SPIRAL — The Victorian Statewide Action Research Network
http://www.spiral-victoria.net/
This is our final SPIRAL newsletter for the year announcing our last meeting for 2008.
And a final feast for 2008 of 18 notices, resources and information items
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SUMMARY of contents of this newsletter:
1.. ‘Scan-and-plan’ last SPIRAL meeting - 20 November
2. Bill Synnot’s Workshop - Successful Organisational Transition 2008
3. Action research in healthcare, seminar 20 November – UTS Sydney
4. Position Available: Participatory Action Research Coordinator, Victoria regional
5. Important new book on qualitative research and the politics of evidence
6. Four new books from Sage on audioethnography, culturally appropriate methods, evaluation and AR in education
7. Bob Dick call for action research books published recently
8. International Community Development Conference – 17-20 June 2009, Brisbane
9. First issue of Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
10. Four new books from the Taos Institute re Appreciative Inquiry
11. USA day-long event - the Science of Positive Psychology to Improve Society
12. How Coaching Can Benefit Human Service Organisations - Jane Wexler workshop
13. Systems in evaluation
14. Philosophy (complex processes) journal on life
15. Community-based participatory research listserv
16. International qualitative inquiry conference, Illinois USA - 20-23 May 2009
17. Visual methods - on-line qualitative social research journal issue
18. Orlando Fals Borda - a further obituary from John Gaventa
DETAILS
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1. Final ’scan-and-plan’ SPIRAL meeting on 20 November
5.30-7.00pm.
The Library
Borderlands at The Augustine Centre
2 Minona Street, Hawthorn
This is a bumper joint meeting of SPIRAL with auspice organisation ARIA (the Action Research Issues Association) and Victorian members of ALARA (the Action Learning Action Research Association)
Scan-and-plan
It is our end-of-year ’scan and plan’ session where we review the past year’s activity (both SPIRAL’s and each of our own) and reflect on the broader organisational, social, economic and political contexts. Everyone present is invited to contribute a view of where we think our area is coming from, is ‘at’ now, and is moving next - and what we’d like SPIRAL to do next year.
Please bring a plate/or bottle of seasonal refreshments
5.30pm-7.00pm Meeting with refreshments
7.00-9.00pm Dinner at nearby Thai restaurant
Please RSVP (and say if you hope to come for dinner)
If you are unable to attend but have an idea for a seminar you’d like next year — please hit ‘Reply’ and let us know. Or make any other suggestions or give any other feedback about the seminars or the work of SPIRAL.
This year we have had 10 events with attendance varying from 30 to 4. Help the network respond better to your/our needs next year.
What would you/we like? How many meetings in the year? What other kinds of resources or events or activities would be good? Whose work would you like to hear about? What methods or techniques would you like discussed?
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2. Bill Synnot’s Workshop - Successful Organisational Transition 2008
The workshops offer:
- foundational principles to change management
- a framework to help you in the change process
- around 200 competencies/tools/techniques/skills to affect a successful transition
- over 40 useful frameworks that can be used in organisational transition
- a specially prepared reference book in 4 volumes (around 1,800 pages and 1,000 references)
- an opportunity to discuss, in depth, your own situation
- insights into the latest thinking/theories/trends, etc
- free pre and post-workshop follow-up discussions with presenter
Workshops will be running throughout November in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane
Details can be found on the ALARA website at http://www.alara.net.au/node/1491
For full details contact Bill Synnot at rp000073[at]a1.com.au
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3. Action research in healthcare, seminar 20 November – UTS Sydney
11am – 3pm
This course aims to discuss how to do good action research in the context of healthcare. Appropriate AR practices and guidelines for intervention in diverse settings will be discussed. Presented by–
Dr Ian Hughes.
Ian is based at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney and has a long experience of working and teaching in Action Research in multiple settings.
As part of this workshop he will be discussing highlights from: Hughes, I. (2008). Action Research in Healthcare. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Action Research (2nd ed., pp. 381-393). London: Sage.
and
A/Prof Shankar Sankaran
Shankar is an Associate Professor at the School of the Built Environment, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at UTS. His areas of interest are project management, knowledge management, management learning, action research and action learning.
Venue:
Lecture Room, Discipline of General Practice at Central Clinical School, 37A Booth Street, Balmain.
Cost: The course is free.
Morning and afternoon tea will be provided. Lunch can be purchased from one of the many cafes and restaurants nearby.
Number of places: There are a limited number of places in the seminar.
If you would like to attend, please register by contacting
Nicky Lecopoulos nicky[at]gp.med.usyd.edu.au
Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation & Development (Phc Red) Program, Discipline of General Practice, University Of Sydney
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4. Position Available: Participatory Action Research Coordinator, Victoria regional
Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation and Friends of the Earth are seeking an experienced social researcher to coordinate an exciting new collaborative project.
The PAR Coordinator will assist the Yorta Yorta people define their aspirations for Working on Country and an ideal “joint management” model to achieve these, by organising workshops and facilitating YYN members to illustrate their interests and capacity to work on Country and engage in NRM. The role would suit someone with experience in participatory action research (or equivalent), community development, and capacity building who enjoys collaborating with others in a creative learning environment.
This position is open to all applicants, however Yorta Yorta and other indigenous people are strongly encouraged to apply.
* Based in Shepparton/Echuca, Australia
* $48,188.92 pa
* Relocation assistance available
* 9 month full-time position with possibility of extenstion
Applications are due 9am Monday 10th November 2008
http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/338
to download a position description and application guidelines.
(If the link breaks, paste this address in to your web browser: http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/338)
Jonathan La Nauze
Red Gum Campaign Coordinator
Jonathan La Nauze jonathan.lanauze[at]foe.org.au
Friends of the Earth Melbourne
PO Box 222
Fitzroy 3065
Ph: +61 3 9419 8700
Fax: +61 3 9416 2081
Mob: +61 402 904 251
www.saveredgum.org
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5. Important new book on qualitative research and the politics of evidence
This book arose from a methodological movement in response to the demand for ‘evidence-based’ policies and programs — Ed]
LEFT COAST PRESS
Norman K Denzin and Michael D Giardina, ‘Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence’ (2008)
What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? What is true or false in research is strongly influenced by socially defined criteria and by the politics of academia? In providing an alternative to conservative science, qualitative researchers are often victimised by these politics. The interdisciplinary, international group of contributors to this volume address these questions in an attempt to create evidential criteria for qualitative work. Sponsored by the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry A$53.95
This and the Sage books below from Footprints distributors in Australia –
info[at]footprint.com.au
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6. Four new books from Sage – on audioethnography, culturally appropriate methods, evaluation and AR in education
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience, (2008)
Daniel Makagon and Mark Neumann
Holds up audio documentary as a premiere form of qualitative research which can serve as an inventive method of storytelling. Based in the practices of fieldwork, audio documentary increases the potential for researchers to reach academic and popular audiences and work collaboratively with people in the pursuit and representation of knowledge and experience. A$33.95
Researching Families and Children: Culturally Appropriate Methods (2008)
S Anandalakshmy, Neerja Sharma and Nandita Chaudhary
A collection of essays on field issues related to research in child/human development, attempting to highlight indigenous methodological issues that arise while conducting human development research in the Indian context. It articulates the dynamics of the process of interaction to provide a transparent and human view of research, giving maximum importance to the perspective of the participant or respondent in each study. A$49.95
Utilization-Focused Evaluation 4ed (2008)
Michael Quinn Patton
Both practical and theoretical, the Fourth Edition of the bestselling Utilization-Focused Evaluation shows how to conduct program evaluations and why to conduct them in the manner prescribed. This entirely rewritten edition offers readers a full-fledged evaluation text from identifying primary users of an evaluation to focusing the evaluation, making methods decisions, analysing data, and presenting findings. 688pp A$135
Practical Action Research: A Collection of Articles 2ed (2008)
Richard A Schmuck
This is a compilation of critical commentaries that offer practical steps for understanding and implementing action research. The contributors demonstrate how educators can reflect, collect data, and create alternative ways to improve their practice in the classroom and school-wide. A$69
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7. Bob Dick call for action research books published recently
While mentioning books, Bob Dick writes to ask if you have written or know of action research books that are just published, or will be published within the next two years? – as he is beginning work on a review of two years of action research books for the journal “Action research” http://arj.sagepub.com.
One of his previous reviews is the ARj’s most-cited article. This will be the fourth such review. The third will appear in the journal some time in the first half of 2009. You’ll find earlier reviews in Volume 2 issue 4 and Volume 4 issue 4.
The review will be of action research books (including edited collections), and other books of direct relevance to action researchers. It will include varieties of action research such as action science, soft systems methodology and appreciative inquiry.
It may also include special journal issues on action research. Apart from that it won’t cover journal articles.
Please send details of any forthcoming or very recent books that you think will be relevant for the review to Bob at:
Bob Dick bd[at]uqconnect.net
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8. The International Association of Community Development Conference – 17-20 June 2009, Brisbane
‘Building community-centred economies – Dialogue for action’
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Qld
This ‘conference with a difference – a think, talk and do conference’ is focused on how we can build strong, creative and sustainable local economies into the future. We are all aware of the links between the global economic system and growing inequalities between rich and poor, climate change and environmental degradation. The question is, what do we in the community, government and corporate sectors do about this situation? Answering this question lies at the heart of this conference. Global changes to address these questions are certainly important, but at the same time, inspiring, thought-provoking and practical answers are also being developed in local communities around the world and are supported by people of good will across all sectors. Local food systems, community and social enterprises, social investment, strong and ethical local businesses, local energy production, fair trade opportunities, community gardens, corporate-community engagements, micro-finance institutions, local currencies and exchange systems, community banks and local credit unions, federations and consortia of non-profit organisations to leverage common good – these are just a few examples.
Initiatives like these are part of a growing movement towards the creation of community-centred economies, improving the lives of many and ensuring the future of local environments around the world. All these avenues need to find their own voice and sustainability and be supported properly by governments and corporations. This movement is full of unlikely alliances, courageous conversations within and between sectors and explorations of how to work in the spaces between traditional disciplines and sectors.
The website address is: www.cdconference.com.au
We thank Gilimbaa for the design work - the story of the artwork and our conference logo is written up on the last page of the call for proposals; it’s a wonderful contribution.
Dr. Ingrid Burkett
Local Change Works
Community Development : Community Economic Development : Community Cultural Development
localchangeworks[at]gmail.com
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9. First issue of Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement — now available
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ijcre
We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit the site to review articles and items of interest. You will need to register as a user to access the content. Registration is free.
‘Gateways’ is a refereed journal concerned with the practice and processes of community research and other forms of engagement. It provides a forum for academics, practitioners and community representatives to pursue issues and reflect on practices related to interactions between tertiary institutions and community organisations: academic interventions in community; community-based projects with links to the tertiary sector; and community initiatives.
Gateways is jointly edited and managed by UTS Shopfront at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in Australia and the Centre for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) at Loyola University in Chicago, USA.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work.
The Editorial Team
Paul Ashton, Phil Nyden, Pauline O’Loughlin and Marilyn Krogh - Gateways
UTS Shopfront, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007
Tel: 612 9514 2903
Fax: 612 9514 2911
Web: www.shopfront.uts.edu.au
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10. Four new books from the Taos Institute re Appreciative Inquiry
Celebrating the Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature — by Edward E. Sampson
Mapping Dialogue: Essential Tools for Social Change — by Marianne ‘Mille’ Bojer, Heiko Roehl, Marianne Knuth, Colleen Magner
Positive Family Dynamics: Appreciative Inquiry Questions to Bring out the Best in Families — by Dawn Cooperrider Dole, Jen Hetzel Silbert, Ada Jo Mann, Diana Whitney
Conversational Realities Revisited: Life, Language, Body and World — by John Shotter
Ask for the four book abstracts by emailing:
aria[dot]inc[at]gmail.com
Or go to:
www.taosinstitute.net
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11. USA day-long event — Applying the Science of Positive Psychology to Improve Society
[This item mostly just FYI re how the issue is being discussed as it has a connection to AI and strengths-based inquiry and because of the stellar cast of keynote speakers including one of the co-originators of AI, David Cooperrider – Ed.]
Claremont Graduate University, Saturday, January 24, 2009, 8:45 am -6:10 pm, Garrison Theater, Claremont, CA, USA)
Positive Psychology emerged at the beginning of the new millennium as a movement within psychology aimed at enhancing human strengths and optimal human functioning. This emerging area of scholarship, scientific research, and application has inspired leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe to rethink the fundamental nature of how we live, work, and educate; of our health and well-being; of how to design and lead positive institutions; and how to develop positive public policies. The ideas contained in the initial work in positive psychology have spread far and wide across the disciplines to form a broader movement, sometimes referred to as the positive social and human sciences.
Speakers will include:
*Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Claremont Graduate University “The Mind and Evolution: The Future of Positive Psychology”
*Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania (joining us via video)
*David Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University “The Discovery and Design of Positive Institutions: How Organizations *Magnify High Human Strengths Outward into Our World”
Register Online http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5808.asp
For more information, visit the website or contact us at paul.thomas[at]cgu.edu or (909) 607-9016
India Swearingen, Outreach Assistant, School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University outreach[at]cgu.edu
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12. How Coaching Can Benefit Human Service Organisations - Jane Wexler workshop
24 November 2008 — Novotel Hotel, Esplanade St Kilda
For…
• Experienced human service professionals who want to maximize their personal growth and leadership contribution to organisations
• Managers, team leaders and supervisors seeking a powerful and practical, solutions-based approach to problems and challenges
• Consultants looking for a dynamic and measurable, outcomes driven approach to working with organisations
• Any human service professional who feels that a change in behavior—either for themselves or their team members—could make a significant difference in the long-term success o their work and that of the organization.
This experiential workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to learn how performance in human service organisations is improved by helping people to identify and remove the things that interfere with their work and limit what they are capable of achieving. Coaching occurs through a collaborative, relationship based, solution-focused process of:
? setting goals,
? taking actions that ensure sustainable behaviour change, and
? reflecting to make sense of these changes in terms of new understandings, individual goals, desired organisational results and long-term, personal potential (IEC 2006).
Gain…
• An understanding of what coaching is, what it is not and how you can use it in your own organisation
• A hands on introduction to some coaching models, frameworks and processes
• An exploration of the coaching experience; coaching consciousness and intention
• How to frame and use coaching questions
• An opportunity to practice coaching and the experience of being coached.
Jane has over 20 years experience in Higher Education as a lecturer and researcher in social work, communication skills and business studies in Australia and China. She has completed Level 2 Certification in Executive Coaching with the Australian Institute of Executive Coaching (IEC). In the 1990s she also worked at the Action Research Issues Centre in Ross House.
All enquiries welcome
COST: Early Booking: $675.00 (Inc GST) Full Rate: $725.00 (Inc GST)
M: 0417 901 033 E: janewexler[at]westvic.com.au
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13. Systems in evaluation
An interesting observation by Bob Williams (NZ evaluator) on EVALSYS (the systems in evaluation listserv) in the lead up to the American Evaluation Association conference – that:
“David Snowden’s Cynefin framework is on the way to becoming the dominant complexity-based framework in Europe and the International Development fields…”
Bob has on his website a resource entitled “Systems Concepts in Evaluation : An Expert Anthology”
http://users.actrix.co.nz/bobwill/SYSTEMS%20CONCEPTS%20IN%20EVALUATION%20Handout.pdf
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14. Philosophy (complex processes) journal on life
Arran Gare has alerted members of the complex processes research group (apols for cross-posting) to the new edition of ‘Cosmos & History’ on the question “What is Life?” It can be found at:
http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/13
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15. Community-based participatory research listserv
For those working with community-based participatory research (CBPR), there are resources available through Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) in the USA. Free subscription to the CBPR listserv co-sponsored by CCPH and the Wellesley Institute - since June 2004, the listserv has grown to over 3,500 subscribers who are passionate about CBPR. It has become a valued resource for information-sharing and collaborative problem-solving.
To subscribe to the CBPR listserv, go to
http://mailman.mcw.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr
Any questions about CCPH, contact by email at ccph[at]mcw.edu
or by phone at (414) 456-7404.
Sarena D. Seifer
Senior Consultant
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - promoting health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Become a member at www.ccph.info
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16. International qualitative inquiry conference, Illinois USA - 20-23 May 2009
Norm Denzin lets us know that the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2009) is now taking submissions online. The theme of the 2009 Congress is “Advancing Human Rights Through Qualitative Research.”
[See the website for a clear statement of the collaboration and politics behind the choice of topic — Ed]
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 20-23, 2009
The 2009 Congress will offer scholars the opportunity to form coalitions and engage in debate and dialogue on on how qualitative research can be used to bridge gaps in cultural and linguistic understandings. Delegates will address such topics as academic freedom, researcher safety, indigenous human rights, human rights violations, ethical codes, torture, political violence, social justice, racial, ethnic and gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare, truth and reconciliation commissions, justice as healing. Delegates will consider the meaning of ethics, evidence, advocacy and social justice under a humane human rights agenda.
Sessions will take up such topics as: the politics of evidence; alternatives to evidence-based models; mixed-methods; public policy discourse; social justice; human subject research; indigenous research ethics; decolonizing inquiry; standpoint epistemologies. Contributors are invited to experiment with new methodologies, and new presentational formats (drama, performance, poetry, autoethnography, fiction). Such work will offer guidelines and exemplars showing how qualitative research can be used in the human rights and policy-making arenas.
To submit a paper or poster abstract or a panel, please visit the website below:
www.icqi.org
Norm Denzin info[at]icqi.org
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17. Visual methods - open access on-line qualitative social research journal issue
I would like to inform you that FQS 9(3) — “Visual Methods” (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/11), edited by Hubert Knoblauch, Alejandro Baer, Eric Laurier, Sabine Petschke & Bernt Schnettler — is available online. Articles are dealing with “Interpretative Visual Analysis”, “Mobilising Visual Ethnography”, “Using Video for a Sequential and Multimodal Analysis of Social Interaction” and many other issues.
In addition to articles relating to “Visual Methods”, FQS 9(3) provides a number of selected single contributions (on “Methodological Considerations for Conducting Qualitative Interviews with Youth Receiving Mental Health Services”, on “The Role of the Researcher in the Narration of Life” to mention just two examples) as well as articles belonging to various FQS sections, as f.e. a “Book Review Symposium: Between Reflexivity and Consolidation — Qualitative Research in the Mirror of Handbooks”.
FQS is an open-access journal, so all articles are available for free. Since January 2000, 29 special issues with all in all 1.135 articles by 1.063 authors from all over the world had been published (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for former issues, http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/search/titles for a list of titles, and http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/search/authors for a list of authors who published in F ).
Once a month a newsletter is distributed to currently 9,300 subscribers, informing about new articles published in FQS, about coming conferences, open access news and other topics of interest for qualitative researchers (visit http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/user/register to register).
Katja Mruck
FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung
/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/
English / German / Spanish
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18. Orlando Fals Borda - a further obituary from John Gaventa
Orlando Fals Borda – A global leader of participatory action research
Orlando Fals Borda, a leading Colombian sociologist, and a key advocate and theorist of participatory action research, died on August 12, 2008 in Bogota at the age of 83. Fals Borda was the founder of the Faculty of Sociology at the National University of Colombia, where he later served as Academic Dean, and then Professor Emeritus. He also was active in international sociology circles, serving as President of the Research Committee on Social Practice of the International Sociological Association. He was also a member of the Colombian National Constituent Assembly where he played a very important role in the National Assembly that gave birth to the Colombian constitution of 1991
In his early years as a sociologist in Latin America, Fals Borda was widely known for his work on and with peasant communities in Colombia, and also for his work on social movements and social change. Internationally, however, he also became known for his pioneering work on the theory and practice of participatory action research, the method of linking social investigation to popular participation in order to bring about social change, as well as to contribute to knowledge. In 1979, he published one of the first essays on this theme in English, ‘Investigating Reality in Order to Transform It: The Colombian Experience’ (Dialectical Anthropology 4:33-55). For the next three decades, he continued to apply the approach in his own work in Latin America, and to spread the approach to other countries. In 1997, he was the principal leader and organiser of an international conference on action research in Cartagena, which brought together over 1800 people from around the world, representing dozens of intellectual streams of action research.
I first met Fals Borda in 1980 in one of the early international meetings on participatory action research, in a meeting organised in Ljubljana by the International Council of Adult Education and UNESCO. Some years later, Tom Hood, the President of the Southern Sociological Society and I (as program co-chair) invited Fals Borda, to Atlanta to give the key note address to the 1995 meetings on ‘Sociology and the Pursuit of Social Justice’. For Fals Borda, the event was a kind of ‘homecoming.’ He had received his sociology training in the US, working first with Nelson Lowry at the University of Minnesota, and later with T Lynn Smith, at the University of Florida, where he received his doctorate in 1955. Yet, as he observed in his address, this was the first-time he had returned to the United States in some forty years to attend a U.S. sociological meeting. On the whole, American sociology at had shunned his activist participatory methods and his activist approach. And, his links to militant peasant movements in Colombia had caused the State Department to refuse him entry visas as well. His return was a symbolic moment, for it also showed a growing willingness of American sociologists to learn from the approaches of international colleagues.
In August, 2008, I was again reminded of that Atlanta meeting when I read of Fals Borda’s death in one of the United Kingdom’s leading national newspaper, The Guardian. The author of his obituary, Richard Gott, quoted several ‘guidelines for sociological research’ from Fals Borda’s Atlanta speech:
“Do not monopolize your knowledge nor impose arrogantly your techniques but respect and combine your skills with the knowledge of the researched or grassroots communities, taking them as full partners and co-researchers.
Do not trust elitist versions of history and science which respond to dominant interests, but be receptive to counter-narratives and try to recapture them.
Do not depend solely on your culture to interpret facts, recover local values, traits beliefs and arts for action by and with the research organisations; and
Do not impose your own ponderous scientific style for communicating results, but diffuse and share what you have learned together with the people, in a manner that is wholly understandable and even literary and pleasant, for science should not be necessarily a mystery nor a monopoly of experts and intellectuals.”
As American sociology searches to re-define its role, in particular to take up former ASA President Michael Burawoy’s challenge for a more ‘public sociology’, the lessons from Orlando Fals Borda – perhaps one of the most committed public sociologists of our time - are well worth remembering.
John Gaventa
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
IDS Participation Group: www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip
DRC on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability: www.drc-citizenship.org
Logolink (Participation and Local Governance): www.ids.ac.uk/logolink
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