[Commpsych] FW: Participatory Qualitative Research: What? Who? How? In Whose Interests?

[Lauren BREEN]

Please see below for a call of papers that is of interest.

Kind regards,
Lauren

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From: David Fryer [drdavidfryer at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 3:30 PM
To: Lauren BREEN
Subject: Participatory Qualitative Research: What? Who? How? In Whose Interests?

Dear Lauren, could you please forward this to the Australian CP discusion list on my behalf? Thanks. David


Call for papers


The Journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research will devote a Special Issue (second issue May of 2011) to:


Participatory Qualitative Research: What? Who? How? In Whose Interests?


In this Special Issue we hope to publish papers that illuminate philosophical, ethical, political, ideological and methodological issues peculiar to participatory qualitative research, through articulating them in relation to examples of substantive hands-on research. We do not wish to prescribe or proscribe issues which may be addressed but we are interested, amongst other issues, in questions such as: who participates, in which ways and decisions, on which occasions, in relation to which issues, with what effects, for whom and in whose interests in thoroughly participatory qualitative research? We are particularly interested in papers whose writing is a manifestation of participatory practices and papers which encourage readers to participate in the construction of knowledge. After all if, as Barthes put it, "the death of the author is the birth of the reader", the death of the unitary researcher / knower may be the birth of the participatory researched / known? We encourage the submission of papers which engage with: progressive and problematic issues in relation to participatory research and ‘democracy’; the relevance to participatory research of notions of spatial and temporal context, power, sustainability and privacy. We also encourage submission of papers opening up space for critique of participatory research: for example whether the term ‘participatory research’ is too frequently deployed to give pseudo-legitimation to exploitative practices which are more in the interests of the researcher than the researched? Finally we encourage papers discussing how the quality of qualitative research should be judged and by whom.

We invite you to indicate interest in submitting a full paper by first submitting a 250 word abstract or outline on which we will offer feedback as to the likely fit of the proposed paper, if developed, with the theme of this Special issue.

Deadlines:
As soon as possible for 250 word abstracts, latest 15th March
15th June 2010 for full papers.

Abstracts should be sent to: jarg.bergold at fu-berlin.de<mailto:jarg.bergold at fu-berlin.de>

Special Issue Guest Editors:

Jarg Bergold (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) jarg.bergold at fu-berlin.de<mailto:jarg.bergold at fu-berlin.de>
David Fryer (Charles Sturt University, Australia; dafryer at csu.edu.au<mailto:dafryer at csu.edu.au> )
Stefan Thomas (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) fanthom at zedat.fu-berlin.de<mailto:fanthom at zedat.fu-berlin.de>

Guidelines for authors can be accessed at:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/about/submissions#authorGuidelines


The Journal Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a peer-reviewed, multilingual (English, German, Spanish), online journal for qualitative research established in 1999. It is an open-access journal, so all articles are available free of charge. (http://www.qualitative-research.net<http://www.qualitative-research.net/>).

FQS publishes empirical studies using qualitative methods and scholarly contributions which deal with theoretical, methodological and practical issues in relation to  qualitative research. FQS is especially welcoming of innovative ways of thinking, writing, researching and presenting.

FQS publishes thematic issues tri-annually (January, May and September) in order to stimulate non-trivial intra-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary debate about all aspects of qualitative research. Previous thematic issues have included, for example, intra-disciplinary focus on qualitative research in cultural sciences, criminology, sport sciences etc., while other thematic issues have been devoted to qualitative research topics of multi-disciplinary and international interest such as: visual methods; subjectivity; reflexivity; time; and discourse.


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