Participatory research and action in India
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1989
Authors
Fernandes, Walter
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Social Action
Abstract
Where does participatory research stand today in India? To understand this, one needs to see where participatory action stands today; because a genuinely participatory approach to research has to be a response to action. Though this has not always been the case, in recent years most scholars who have got into participatory research have taken to it as a result of demands from the field. In order to understand this, in this paper we shall at first study the developments in the 1950s and 1960s that led to the formation of social activist groups and after that see in what way some scholars decided to support action in the field. We shall end it with some questions concerning the present, particularly some recent experiments.
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Fernandes, W. (1989). Participatory research and action in India today. Social Action, 39(1).