Critical Participatory Inquiry
An Interdisciplinary Guide
- Meagan Call-Cummings - Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Giovanni P. Dazzo - University of Georgia, USA
- Melissa Hauber-Özer - University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
The most thoughtful approach to CPI to date, with lots of nuanced discussion of power, inequality and positionality. The text is replete with examples from community studies using a variety of media.
The book is solidly grounded in relevant foundational and contemporary research and presents an array of robust, innovative participatory and arts-based methods to engage in collaborative inquiry with a research collective. The book invites researchers into the process and provides a set of reflexive guides and practices with which to conceptualize and implement participatory research in a variety of contexts and spaces.
This book offers a nuanced and complex look at critical participatory research. The approach of the text offers an insight into how these scholars arrived at the work and how to then do this work from varying perspectives.
I found the practice activities and focus activities very thought-provoking and valuable from a teaching standpoint. Overall, the writing continues to be very accessible.
This is a thought provoking and challenging new way to look at research in the context of social justice.
This is the first time I have read a comprehensive book chapter covering digital and social media research so succinctly.
The authors provided examples of creative ways to take action with research and sharing findings. I think this message is important in taking action; we can and should disseminate research through multiple avenues.
This book introduces Critical Practitioner Inquiry that is user-friendly and socially aware. The authors are well-versed in the literature, but their personal experiences with CPI truly make the book come to life.
The connections to real-world examples were outstanding. The authors did a wonderful job of gaining credibility by sharing their own work as well as work that has been published in the field.
I like its flow, the use of a reference list after every chapter. It is rich in content and uses real life examples.
The post-colonial and post-structural, dialogic approach makes this pretty unique and helpful.
The topical coverage feels very unique for a text of this kind. For instance, discussions on power dynamics, creating relational connections, forming inquiry collectives.
The comprehensiveness of the chapter discussions is notable. I also appreciated that this book was unflinching in discussions on the epistemological foundations of CPI and the importance these positions have on the methodology.