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Volume 22 Issue 1, March 2024

Volume 22 Issue 1, March 2024

Theme Issue: Action Research for Transforming the Poverty Field Theme Editors: Victor J. Friedman, Bruno Tardieu, Gloria Almeyda, Maryann Broxton, Donna Haig Friedman, Grace B Kyomuhendo and Svante Lifvergren

Editorial

  • Victor J. Friedman
  • Bruno Tardieu
  • Gloria Almeyda
  • Maryann Broxton
  • Donna Haig Friedman
  • Grace B Kyomuhendo
  • Svante Lifvergren
Free accessEditorialFirst published January 21, 2024pp. 3–14

Articles

  • Kitojo Wetengere
  • Rachel Bray
  • Martin Kalisa
  • Isha Bhallamudi
Abstract
Merging of Knowledge is a research approach that creates the conditions for people with lived experience of poverty to participate at an equal level with academics and practitioners, in the co-generation of knowledge about poverty. This paper reflects ...
Free accessResearch articleFirst published September 22, 2023pp. 15–31
  • Lucie Gélineau
  • Sophie Dupéré
  • Julie Richard
  • VAATAVEC Collective
Abstract
When conducting Participatory Action Research (PAR), we risk invalidating the experiential knowledge of people in poverty. Their contributions might only be seen as legitimate when put through a formal PAR process. We have thus developed a “woven ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published October 16, 2023pp. 32–50
  • Marit Blaak
  • Sophia Irepu
  • Jacques Zeelen
Abstract
Non-governmental organisations have several mechanisms in place to facilitate learning with and from communities they intend to serve, however these do not always realise authentic participation and meaningful programmatic adjustments. In a participatory ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published September 25, 2023pp. 51–68
  • Diana Cedeño
Abstract
This Feminist Action Research (FAR) examines the impact of economic and societal exclusion on low-income Latina mothers. The study, conducted in an urban community in the Northeast U.S., aimed to foster social inclusion among low-income Latina mothers via ...
Free accessResearch articleFirst published September 1, 2023pp. 69–85
  • Diana Skelton
  • Brendan Coyne
  • Beatriz Monje Barón
  • Marie-Rose Blunschi Ackermann
Abstract
When stakeholders in participatory action research [PAR] projects live in poverty, practices sometimes fail to recognize and draw on their capacity for critical reflection. This constitutes epistemic (knowledge-based) injustice. It is problematic for ...
Free accessResearch articleFirst published October 27, 2023pp. 86–103