An Abbreviated Participatory Action Research Bibliography

PAR Theory, Background and Case Studies

Arnstein, Sherry R. 1969. A Ladder of Citizen Participation. American Institute of Planners Journal 35 (4):216-224.

Bradbury, Hilary and Peter Reason. 2003. Issues and Choice Points for Improving the Quality of Action Research, in Minkler , Meredith and Nina Wallerstein (Eds.), Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc.

Chambers, Robert. 1983. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. London: Longman.

Cooke, Bill, and Uma Kothari, eds. 2001. Participation: The New Tyranny? London: Zed Books.

Cornwall, Andrea, and Rachel Jewkes. 1995. What is Participatory Research? Social Sciences in Medicine 41 (12):1667-1676.

Fals Borda, Orlando, and Mohammad Anisur Rahman, eds. 1991. Action and Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly with Participatory Action-Research. New York: Apex Press.

Firehock, Karen. 2004. Protocal and Guidelines for Ethical and Effective Research of Community Based Collaborative Processes. Community Based Collaboratives Research Consortium 2003 [cited September 7 2004]. Available from http://www.cbcrc.org/documents.html.

Gaventa, John. 1988. Participatory research in North America. Convergence 24 (2-3): 19-28.

Gray, Gerald, Maia Enzer and Jonathan Kusel. 2001. Understanding Community Based Forest Ecosystem Management. Food Products Press/ Haworth Publishers, New York.

Greenwood, Davydd J., William Foote Whyte, and Ira Harkavy. 1993. “Participatory Research as a Process and as a Goal.” Human Relations. Volume 46. Number 2. p. 175-192.

Greenwood, Davydd J. and Morten Levin. 1998. Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Hall, Budd. 1998. From Margins to Center? The Development and Purpose of Participatory Research. American Sociologist, Winter 1992, p. 15-28.

Hayward, Chris, Lyn Simpson, and Leanne Wood. 2004. Still Left Out in the Cold: Problematising Participatory Research and Development. Sociologia Ruralis 44 (1):95-108.

Israel, Barbara; Amy Schultz; Edith Parker and Adam Becker. 1998. Review of Community-Based Research: Assessing Partnership Approaches to Improve Public Health. Annual Review of Public Health 19: 173-202.

Kruger, Linda E. and Victoria E. Sturtevant. 2003. Divergent paradigms for community inquiry: An argument for including participatory action research. Understanding Community-Forest Relations. Kruger, Linda E., (ed). General Technical Report PNW-GTR-566, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon. February 2003.

Little, P.D. 1994. The link between local participation and improved conservation, in D. Western and M. Wright (eds) Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-Based Conservation. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. p. 347-72.

Minkler, Meredith and Nina Wallerstein. 2003. Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc.

Nyden, Philip, Anne Figent, Mark Shibly, and Darryl Burrows. 1997. Building Community: Social Science in Action. Pine Forge Press.

Pain, Rachel, and Peter Francis. 2003. Reflections on participatory research. Area 35 (1):46-54.

Park, Peter. 1993. What is participatory research? A theoretical and methodological perspective, in Peter Park, Mary Brydon-Miller, Budd Hall, and Ted Jackson (eds.). Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada. Westport: Bergin & Garvey. p. 1-20.

Park, Peter; Mary Brydon-Miller, Budd Hall, and Ted Jackson (eds.). Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada. Bergin & Garvey: Westport.

Simpson, Leanne. 2000. Aboriginal Peoples and Knowledge: Decolonizing our Processes. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XXI (2):137-148

Slocum, Rachel. 1995. Participation, empowerment and sustainable development. In Slocum, Rachel; Wichhart, Lori; Rocheleau, Dianne and Thomas-Slayter, Barbara (Eds). Power, Process and Participation. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.

Stoeker, Randy. 1999. “Are Academics Irrelevant? Roles for Scholars in Participatory Research.” American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 42, No. 5, February 1999, pp. 840-854.

Taylor, Russell. 2001. Participatory Natural Resource Monitoring and Management: Implications for Conservation. In Hulme, David and Murphree, Marshall (Eds.), African Wildlife and Livelihoods: The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation. Oxford, England: James Currey Ltd

Web Links toGeneral PAR Sites:

Goshen College’s Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology page http://www.goshen.edu/soan/soan96p.htm
PARnet at Cornell http://www.parnet.org/

PLA Notes series produced by IIED http://www.iied.org/sarl/pla_notes/

PAR Methods

Davis-Case, D., The Community's Toolbox: The Ideas, Methods and Tools for Participatory Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation in Community Forestry, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Rome, 1990

Margoluis, Richard and Nick Salafsky. Measures of Success: Designing, Managing and Monitoring Conservation and Development Projects. 1998. Island Press, Covelo.

Pretty, J. et al., A Trainer's Guide for Participatory Learning and Action, IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development), London, 1995.

Srinivasan, L., Tools for Community Participation: A manual for training trainers in participatory techniques, PROWWESS/UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, Washington D.C., 1993

Thomas-Slayter, Barbara. 1995. A brief history of participatory methodologies. In Slocum, Rachel; Wichhart, Lori; Rocheleau, Dianne and Thomas-Slayter, Barbara (Eds). 1995. Power, Process and Participation. London: Intermediate Technology Publications. 251 pp.

Williams, Lee. 1995. Participatory and Collaborative Applied Research Methods – Annotated bibliography.

Facilitating in PAR

Adler, Peter et al. 2000. Managing Scientific and Technical Information in Environmental Cases. Principles and Practices for Mediators and Facilitators. With US Institute for Environmental

Conflict Resolution, Western Justice Center Foundation RESOLVE INC. Washington DC

Beer, Jennifer with Eileen Stief. 1997. The Mediator’s Handbook. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia.

Chambers, Robert. 2002. Participatory Workshops – a sourcebook of 21 sets of ideas and activities. Earthscan Publications Ltd. London.

Cormick, Gerald, et al. 1996. Building Consensus for a Sustainable Future: Putting principles into practice. National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. Ottawa, Ontario. Canada. Online: http://www.nrtree-trnee.ca

Groot, Annemarie and Marleen Maarleveld. 2000. Demystifying Facilitation in Participatory Development. International Institute for Environment and Development. Gatekeeper Series No. 89. IIED, London.

Kaner, Sam et. al. 1996. Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision- Making. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Colombia.

Wollenberg, Eva et al. 2000. Anticipating Change: Scenarios as a tool for adaptive forest management. Center for International Forestry Research. CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia. Check Online http://www.cifor.cgiar.org

Wycoff, Joyce. 1995. Transformation Thinking. Berkley Publishers, New York.

Mapping

Barndt, Michael. 1998. Public Participation GIS- Barriers to Implementation. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. Vol. 25 No2: 105-112.

Craig, W.J. and S. A. Elwood. 1998. How and Why Community Groups Use Maps and Geographic Information. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. Vol. 25 No2: 95-104.

Lightfoot, C. et al., Training Resource Book for Agro-Ecosystem Mapping, IRRI (Philippines) and Ford Foundation (India), 1989.

Obermeyer, Nancy. 1998. The Evolution of Public Participation GIS. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. Vol. 25 No2:65-66.