Reciprocity practices in social research
Future post that will consider:
- As researchers we take understanding and knowledge from the subjects, environments, communities we study
- How can we give effectively, affectively, appropriately, respectfully?
- How do we create deep and meaningful relationships in more radical ways? Offer to do the work. Fix that generator! (from Dr. Susan Dion).
- How do we participate in the rubs between decision-makers and those affected by decisions in a way that leads to positive and transformational change?
- Part of my responsibility as a researcher is to find the practices that 'nurture my knowledge-making soul'. (from Dr. Carla Rice)
For more on 'making good tracks':
Kindon, S. (2003). Participatory video in geographic research: a feminist practice of looking?. Area, 35: 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4762.00236
Rice, C., Chandler, E., Fisher, L., Tidgwell, T., Changfoot, N., Mündel, I., & Dion, S. (2018). Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life, Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice, University of Guelph,Ontario, Canada, 2018. Accessed December 9, 2020 from https://bodiesintranslation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BIT-Principles-of-Governance-and-Engagement.pdf
Rice, C., Cook, K., & Bailey, K. A. (2020). Difference-attuned witnessing: Risks and potentialities of arts-based research. Feminism & Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353520955142
Walker, R. (2016). Incorporating reciprocity into the research process
Advice for giving back to study participants and research assistants. Accessed December 9, 2020 from https://www.apadivisions.org/division-20/publications/newsletters/adult-development/2016/07/reciprocity