Dusty Columbia Embury
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Our way(s) to action research: Doctoral students’ international and and interdisciplinary collective memory work
Blog post by Zheng Zhang Have you ever felt lonely on your journey as becoming action researchers? Have you ever had a hankering after support from experienced others? We did. Luckily, in the burnished fall of 2011, we met in Gothenburg, Sweden and started our collective biography as fledgling action researchers. Highly motivated to make […]
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Social impact and the justification of action research knowledge
Blog post by Bjørn Gustavsen, Work Research Institute, Norway Research is under the obligation to produce knowledge that can be generalized. The common way of meeting this challenge is for research to study a limited number of phenomena, construct a theory, and claim that this theory is valid also for phenomena not studied. For action […]
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Natya yoga therapy: Using movement and music to create meditative relief in schizophrenia
Blog post written by Aparna Ramaswamy A person diagnosed with schizophrenia asked me: “How do you know that my visions and voices are not real? How do you know I am not the next prophet?” As outrageous as the suggestion seems, the truth is that I do not know. At least, not in a way […]
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Local Knowledge Systems and Hazard Forecasting
by Sunil D Santha, P Gahana, and VS Aswin “The manuscript is important because it contains indigenous insights of fisherfolk in Kerala. These indigenous peoples are among the most affected by hazard or change and their knowledge is given voice in this paper. Solely, expert knowledge is simply not sufficient in dealing with wicked problems such as […]
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Theresa Van Lith’s A meeting with ‘I-Thou’: Exploring the intersection between mental health recovery and art making through a co-operative inquiry
Mental health recovery as a social justice framework addresses how people who experience mental illness can increase being active agents to assist in improving their quality of life. Similarly, co-operative inquiry challenges the power imbalances that exist among marginalized and vulnerable groups by seeking to create relevant platforms for equality. In this paper, the author […]
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