PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH AS_IN PEDAGOGY - TRANSLOCAL PERSPECTIVES
Expanded International Wednesday
Department of Education, Hörsaal 1, Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien
29. March 2023
15:00 - 16:30 Inputs maiz/das kollektiv - Mag. Gergana Mineva, BSc MA und Dr. Assimina Gouma (PH Oberösterreich)
17:00 - 18:30 Input Dr. María Elena Torre
18:30 get-together
*The inputs of maiz/das kollektiv will take place in German with English translation;
the lecture of Dr. María Elena Torre will take place in English.
Inputs maiz/das kollektiv - with Mag. Gergana Mineva, BSc MA and Dr. Assimina Gouma (PH Oberösterreich)
Participative Research and its Ambivalences - Search Paths of a Migrant Self-Organization
Input Dr. Marìa Elena Torre
Critical Participatory Action Research as Epistemic Justice - Forging Inquiry in Solidarity for Transformation
Abstract:
As the urgency of our times escalates, from the climate crisis to unbridled capitalism, to the rise in authoritarian populism, what is our responsibility as academics? How are we engaging calls to decolonize the university and to desist from supremacist practices? As we begin to critically examine our disciplinary imperial histories, and plan our research moving forward, it is incumbent upon us to interrogate questions of purpose and commitment: to whom is our scholarship accountable? Whose knowledge/expertise/analysis is privileged in our inquiries? How might our research align with the needs and desires of movements for justice? Reflecting on 25 years of critical participatory action research at the Public Science Project at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, conducted with a wide range of community colleagues, activists, artists, and scholar from beyond the university, Director María Elena Torre will share examples of the possibilities of critical participatory action research for carving out counter-hegemonic spaces that pierce university/community membranes, center historically marginalized knowledges, radically engage participation across difference, produce rich findings, and open the imagination for community-based freedom dreams.