Sam
You might find a chapter in Van Blerk and Kesby 2009 Doing children's Geographies - useful.
Chapter 11 Van Blerk and Ansell "participatory Feedback and dissemination with and for children: reflection from research with young migrants in Southern Africa".
This was initially a paper in the journal Children's geographies - but I can't remember the reference.
As I remember it, the thing about this chapter was that it described how a participatory process (of 'giving back' - and more) could be accomplished at the tail end of a research project that had in other respects been fairly 'normal' social science research - e.g. interviews etc. The process described 'gave back' the data - and made it useful and relevant to the community that had helped generate it. It also improved the data and the interpretation of the data because participants 'member checked' it and up-dated it. AND, when the researchers moved from 'feed-back' to 'dissemination' (which the authors defined separately), they BOTH included community members (by video I think) in presentations to 'policy makers' AND engaged policy makers in a way that - did not simply present results as a fait a compli - but enabled policy makers to engage with, and take ownership of the findings - the better to act and respond to them. Thus 'giving back' operated at more than one scale.
I thought it was great.
Mike
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Subject: Re: literature on 'giving back' to communities involved in fieldwork
hello,
to follow dorothea's request, does anyone know of any good refs for
'giving back' to communities involved in fieldwork? i'm writing with
regard to standard social science methods like interviews etc in the
global South, rather than PAR or anything, but i'm sure there must be
a good literature from that field which would be applicable?
my starting point is that there are questions of 'who' to 'give back'
to and 'what' to 'give back'...
again, i'll compile anything i get for anyone who might be interested,
thanks!
sam
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