[ecrea] CFP: Community and Creative Research. Developing Participatory Methodologies

    CFP (special issue of /Conjunctions/):
    *http://www.conjunctions-tjcp.com/announcement/view/501*


    /Community and Creative Research. Developing Participatory
    Methodologies/

*Deadline: Papers must be submitted by August 15, 2017:*

*Special issue editors: **Lorena Sancho Querol and Claudia Carvalho 
(Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal)*

Cultural researchers across disciplines are increasingly investigating 
and experimenting with practice-led, creative and participatory 
methodologies and approaches. This academic rethinking of research 
practices could on the one hand be understood as a long-waited 
willingness to not only look at, but also engage socially with, what is 
researched. On the other hand it could be approached as a result of an 
increasing pressure on academic research to create more 
tangible/inclusive results and effects.

This special issue addresses the multiple ways in which community 
research practices and methodologies can positively influence active 
citizenship and nurture social transformation in both rural and urban 
areas (e.g. a neighbourhood), in specific cultural settings and in 
various types of institutions (e.g. cultural and media institutions, 
health institutions). But also the challenges raised by 
participatory-creative research in terms of their potential 
renegotiation of established notions of autonomous-critical research, 
academic quality, effect and ownership.

We invite empirical, theoretical and practical academic contributions 
from across disciplines that deal with community-engaged participatory 
processes. They can take into account the ethics, power structures, 
risks, potentials and impacts of community-engaged cultural research, 
but also how these practices and methodologies enable other kinds of 
involvement and knowledge (such as inter-knowledge, collaborative 
knowledge and experiential knowledge) and motivate new modes of 
reflection and innovative relations between researcher and researched.

Topics may include, but need not be confined to, the following:

  * Transformational potentials of community research
  * Creative research methodologies
  * Ethics and power in community research
  * Material participation
  * Engaging non-human actants in participatory research
  * When is a methodology ‘participatory’?
  * Developing participatory methodological setups
  * Evaluation of participatory community research
  * Participatory research in cultural and media institutions
  * Critical approaches to participatory research




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