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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Year 2013 
Volume 11 
Issue 4

Community-Engaged Scholarship: Creating Participative Spaces for Transformative Politics

Ester Barinaga
Copenhagen Business School

Patricia Parker
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2013 11 (4) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstract

We are pleased to offer this special issue on community-engaged scholarship. As scholar-activists working for social justice alongside youth of color (Pat) and critical arts activists engaging with stigmatized communities (Ester), we began this project with the intent of gathering a collection of essays operating against the traditional colonizing methodologies that have been the hallmarks of social/science research for centuries (Smith, 1999). In organization studies, this tradition includes Kurt Lewin’s 20th century research studies that laid the groundwork for participatory approaches to system change, but which offered no critique or analysis of the broader societal structures of power that embed such change (Adelman, 1993). For this special issue, we called for essays that would attend to issues of power in the participative research process, and with a conscious aim toward decolonizing research that exposes and challenges inequalities in the production, outcomes, and sharing of research content. Also, our intent was to collect essays that would highlight the ways scholars are grappling with some of the “prickly” issues (to use the apt term provided by of one of the contributions to this special issue, Schaefer & Rivera) in community-engaged scholarship—issues that emerge at the intersection between the political and the theoretical and which are at the forefront of conversations both inside and outside the traditional boundaries of academe.

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Barinaga, Ester & Parker, Patricia S. (2013). Community-Engaged Scholarship: Creating Participative Spaces for Transformative Politics. (2013). Community-Engaged Scholarship: Creating Participative Spaces for Transformative Politics. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 11(4), 5-11. (Original work published 2013)

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Barinaga, Ester and Parker, Patricia S.. “Community-Engaged Scholarship: Creating Participative Spaces For Transformative Politics”. 2013. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, vol. 11, no. 4, 2013, pp. 5-11.

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Barinaga, Ester and Parker, Patricia S.. “Community-Engaged Scholarship: Creating Participative Spaces For Transformative Politics”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 11, no. 4 (2013): 5-11.