Chrystal Ocean <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
>The usurpation by academe of community-based, community-lead research is a
>common experience for community groups. In cases where this doesn't
>happen,
>one often finds the research having been redefined as a 'project' or
>'initiative'. Research makes a permanent contribution to our knowledge
>base;
>projects have a best-before date.
>
>Not just academics are qualified to do or lead research. In some cases,
>they
>are LESS qualified.
>
Ocean, your comment reminded me of something else I neglected to mention
in my email. Universities, along with a few other powerful institutions
that are authorized to do the research that creates the knowledge that
determines practices, are the official/designated sites of knowledge
production. The new wave of CBPR appears to advance the idea
(inadvertently or otherwise) that research is the legitimate vehicle for
the production of legitimate forms of knowledge. Surely there are many
people in the academy and many more outside it who don't believe research
is the sole or the most legimate vehicle for the production of knowledge
we deem legitimate. I wonder how easy it is to maintain claims to the
contrary in the current climate though.

What does it mean that other social sites and methods of knowledge
production are being rendered invisible and illegitimate? This creates
conditions that are precisely a setup for the appropriation of
community-based knowledge, does it not? I think it also speaks to the
expanion of the reach and control of universities, and in this an
expansion and a reassertion of the regulatory role of the university.  I'm
very interested in related readings. 

I think CBPR may be taken up by individuals with varying intentions as
well as varying effects. Individuals can make a difference in how CBPR is
operationalized but I wonder how much difference individuals will make in
the larger trends I'm wondering about. 

>--Ocean
>---------------------------
>Chrystal Ocean, Coordinator
>Wellbeing through Inclusion Socially & Economically
>www.wise-bc.org
>



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Counselling for Community Settings
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