Participatory Action Research

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    Despite knowledge democracy and community-based participatory action research: Voices from the global south and excluded north still missing
    (Sage Publications, 2015) Openjuru, George Ladaah; Jaitli, Namrata; Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd L
    The primary purpose for this special issue of Action Research Journal (ARJ) focusing on knowledge democracy, community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) was to draw attention to and raise debate about knowledge exclusion of and alternative forms of knowing in the global South as well as to bring to the fore the perspective of authors from the global South. We understand the global South to include the excluded epistemologies from the global North such as Indigenous Researchers from the First Nations People from Canada. Reflecting on the 12 submissions that were made for this special issue reveals how even within supportive knowledge and research paradigms that are meant to promote marginalized scholarships, the global South and excluded North still remains excluded.
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    Social research for social action: An introduction
    (Indian Social Institute, 1998) Fernandes, W; Tandon, Rajesh
    Though claims are made about the objective and value-free nature of social research, in reality, oftener than not it leads to some form of social action, sometimes aimed at questioning the status quo and usually by maintaining it. In fact, social research and social action are similar and interdependent. Both entail human activity within a given human setting and feed each other. Social research is allied with social action though it may not always lead to it directly while social action is invariably based on some research. One can argue that even coercive and repressive social action entails a certain data-base as is evident from the deeds of investigative and police agencies all over the world. Studies have shown bow aggressive marketing practices of multinational corporations, exploitation of the Third World markets and over-pricing-are based on extensive research of their market potential and methods of making a given product acceptable to the consumer i.e., creating a need that docs not really exist.
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    Dialogue as inquiry and intervention
    (1981) Tandon, Rajesh
    This article by Dr. Rajesh Tandon presents dialogue as a method of integrating inquiry and intervention in social systems. It starts by presenting a case study from Dr. Tandon's two-year fieldwork among small and marginal farmers in Western India. The dialogue took place with 25 peer group leaders, during which interactions led participants to analyse the problems they had experienced. The article talks about some critical implications from this case study. First, it argues that dialogue has a mutual impact, affecting both the researcher and participants. Second, it states that the data-collection process that is most relevant to both parties should determine its validity. Third, dialogue is noted to be inherently political and ideological. The abstract concludes with the final implication that studying under-organized systems eventually organizes them through change generated by dialogue.
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    Participatory research
    (0000) Tandon, Rajesh
    This article by Dr. Rajesh Tandon examines the relationship between development with knowledge and research in the context of developing countries, arguing that mainstream development strategies have largely remained Western-centric, adopting a top-down, technology-driven approach and being detached from the lived realities of marginalized communities. He critiques post-WWII development strategies as primarily dependent on knowledge that is controlled by the monopoly of elite researchers to serve the interests of those in power- under the guise of objectivity and neutrality. The article further criticises the irrelevance of sophisticated research methodologies and ethical issues that arise due to seeing humans as mere subjects, and presents participatory research as an emerging alternative. It emphasises the role of ordinary people in generating and utilising their own knowledge to bring socio-economic changes.