ABSTRACT

Collaborative research embraces a multiplicity of practices in which social actors are invited to participate in the research process as co-producers of knowledge.  But what is actually meant by “co-production” in collaborative research? Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research presents a range of critical, reflexive strategies for understanding and tackling the challenges emanating from the tensions that arise in the meeting between different participants, knowledge forms and knowledge interests. The chapters anchor discussion of ethical, epistemological and methodological questions in sustained empirical analyses of cases of collaborative knowledge production.

The book covers diverse theoretical approaches such as dialogic communication theory, actor network theory, poststructuralist writing as inquiry, institutional ethnography, dialogic action research, and pragmatic action research. The empirical cases span a broad spectrum of empirical fields of social practice: health services, organisational change, research, science communication, environmental communication in intermediary NGOs, participatory governance in relation to urban planning, and digital communication and virtual worlds.

chapter 1|18 pages

Tackling the Tensions of Dialogue and Participation

Reflexive Strategies for Collaborative Research

part 1|84 pages

Reflexively Analysing ‘participation' and ‘dialogue' in Collaborative Research

chapter 2|21 pages

Learning from Discomfort

Science Communication Experiments Between Diffusion, Dialogue and Emergence

chapter 3|22 pages

The Performative Practices of Public Participation

Negotiating Interests, Experiences and Normativity

chapter 4|20 pages

Participation and Reflection in Pragmatic Action Research

Harnessing the Potential and Dealing with the Dilemmas

chapter 5|19 pages

Environmental Counselling in a Women's Organisation

An Analysis of Practices in the Tension Between Diffusion and Dialogue

part 2|88 pages

Reflexively Tackling the Ethics of Collaborative Research Relations

chapter 6|19 pages

My Discomfort

Practical Reflexivity As a Methodological Approach

chapter 7|29 pages

Co-Producing Knowledge

Between Othering, Emotionality and Dialogue

chapter 8|18 pages

The Ethics of Involvement with the Already Involved

Action Research and Power

chapter 9|20 pages

Dialogical Ethics and Reflections On Unfinalizability

An Analysis of Dissenting Voices in a Film Contest Study

part 3|64 pages

Reflexively Tackling Epistemological Issues in Collaborative Research

chapter 10|20 pages

Participatory Knowledge Production and Power

Co-Determination Through Dissensus in Dialogic Organisational Action Research

chapter 11|23 pages

Reflecting On Work Practices

Possibilities for Dialogue and Collaborative Knowledge Production in Institutional Ethnography

chapter 12|19 pages

Building Networks with Vague Intentions

A Vocabulary of Enrolment and Negotiations in Collaborative Research Practice

part 4|33 pages

Tying the Ends Loosely

chapter 13|26 pages

Characteristics and Challenges of Collaborative Research

Further Perspectives On Reflexive Strategies