{"id":22126,"date":"2019-12-05T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22126"},"modified":"2019-12-05T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:34:50","slug":"participatory-action-research-in-the-city-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22126","title":{"rendered":"participatory action research in the City of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.construindojuntos.com\/\">Equipe Construindo Juntos <\/a>(The Building Together Research Center) is based in Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s City of God neighborhood, made world-famous by the 2002 film. One of the key <a href=\"https:\/\/en.construindojuntos.com\/quem-somos\">team members <\/a>is my Tufts colleague Anjuli Fahlberg, a sociologist. She works as a close colleague with Ricardo Fernandes, Mirian Andrade, Jacob Portela, and about 20 Research Assistants, all from the neighborhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/fd694b_3d9e28747d224a85ba8aba92e0c244f0~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_1200,h_900,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01\/IMG_1105.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Among their projects is an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.construindojuntos.com\/metodologia\">elaborate survey<\/a> of residents from 989 City of God households. Characteristically, the study began with open-ended discussion groups that chose the questions. The data was collected by fifteen trained and paid residents. To summarize the findings for neighbors, the research team produced &#8220;3,000 colorful pamphlets,&#8221; made presentations at local nonprofits, and earned press coverage in the major Rio newspapers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an exemplary case of Participatory Action Research. Tisch College is proud to support it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21223\">Participatory Action Research as Civic Studies<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20372\">nonviolent civic work under conditions of extreme violence<\/a> (also on Anjuli Fahlberg&#8217;s research). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipe Construindo Juntos (The Building Together Research Center) is based in Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s City of God neighborhood, made world-famous by the 2002 film. One of the key team members is my Tufts colleague Anjuli Fahlberg, a sociologist. She works as a close colleague with Ricardo Fernandes, Mirian Andrade, Jacob Portela, and about 20 Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democratic-reform-overseas","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22128,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22126\/revisions\/22128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}