Post by Patricia Maguire, PAR-FEM Podcast host Streaming now – the 12th episode of the podcast Participatory Action Research Feminist Trailblazers and Good Troublemakers. Listen to Caribbean feminists Peggy Antrobus, Norma Shorey, and Chris Ashton. This episode showcases their commitments to feminist and participatory values and processes in the initial Women and Development Unit (WAND), […]
Read More...Inspired by the article “Inside the PAR group: The group dynamics of women learning to live with diabetes”, Fatemeh Adii, Isabel Higgins, and Tina Koch, Action Research 10(4) 373–386 I work for a wellness company that is contracted by a grocery store chain to help employees improve their everyday lifestyles through nutrition and exercise. Along […]
Read More...In 2010 eight Guyanese expatriate women living with diabetes came together in a participatory action research study. They and relatives in Guyana had brushed a diagnosis of diabetes aside as just ‘ a touch of sugar’. Interviews with Guyanese women living in London revealed that managing diabetes was a solitary endeavour, often with little guidance […]
Read More...A blog inspired by Duncan, G., & Ridley-Duff, R. (2014). Appreciative inquiry as a method of transforming identity and power in Pakistani women. Action Research, 12(2), 117-135. Many women from the Middle East face many issues with power and identity. For example, law, culture and even family may try to obscure the identity of women, […]
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