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Participatory action research: an approach with unspoken autoethnographic claims
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Media and Journalism.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6937-1032
2021 (English)In: “Breaking the rules? power, participation, transgression”: SIEF2021 15th Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 19-24 June 2021, 2021Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Abstract [en]

This article aims to include autoethnography as a method for understanding and actively working with the researcher as a co-creator in interactive research for social and societal change. Participatory action research is a methodological approach to social change (Brydon-Miller m fl., 2003). It is an approach with unspoken autoethnographic claims that researchers should make the world better for vulnerable groups in society. The autoethnographic approach is understood in the article as a systematic analysis of personal experience to understand cultural experience (Ellis, 2004), both process and product (Ellis m fl, 2011). The unspoken claims are presented in the article through my experiences from being part of a research environment for participatory action research characterized by an extensive research project focused on innovation and growth in the media field. I, therefore, give examples such as epiphanies, self-reported phenomena of transformative experiences, as intense situations and effects that remain. Through my personal story, an ever-present tension in academic culture related to “social change” and “innovation for growth” emerges as opposites. This puts a vague and dissatisfied feeling into words that explain a lot in participatory action research as the approach is used for innovation and growth. For autoethnography to be fully understood and actively worked within and for interactive research, this perspective needs to be included in the research design of interactive research for social and societal change. The retrospective analytic approach I test here can only offer well-founded argumentation to highlight the value of trying this perspective. Autoethnography makes it possible to show how the tensions in academia and economics are valuable in illuminating cultural processes. It emphasizes the importance of autoethnographic elements to shed particular light on methodological issues by assuming and acknowledging the researchers' active role in participatory action research, where subjective norms and ideas are included in the research approach and thus need to be articulated.

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2021.
Keywords [en]
participatory action research, autoethnography, social change, innovation
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Media and Communications
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Media Studies and Journalism; Humanities; Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-110173OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-110173DiVA, id: diva2:1635482
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SIEF2021 15th Congress Helsinki, Finland 19-24 June 2021 BREAKING THE RULES? POWER, PARTICIPATION, TRANSGRESSION,
Available from: 2022-02-07 Created: 2022-02-07 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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