Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research A Reflexive Approach [Paperback]

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.

1. Tackling the Tensions of Dialogue and Participation: Reflexive Strategies for Collaborative Research  Louise Phillips, Marianne Kristiansen, Marja Vehvil?inen and Ewa Gunnarsson  Part I: Reflexively Analysing Participation and Dialogue in Collaborative Research  2. Learning from Discomfort: Science Communication Experiments Between Diffusion, Dialogue and Emergence  Maja Horst  3. The Performative Practices of Public Participation: Negotiating Interests, Experiences and Normativity  Pauliina Lehtonen  4. Participation and Reflection in Pragmatic Action Research: Harnessing the Potential and Dealing with the DlH