Climate and Development ( IF 4.653 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-06 , DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2021.1930509 Eija Meriläinen 1, 2 , Ilan Kelman 1, 3 , Laura E. R. Peters 1, 4, 5 , Geordan Shannon 5, 6
ABSTRACT
The health impacts of climate change are distributed inequitably, with marginalized communities typically facing the direst consequences. However, the concerns of the marginalized remain comparatively invisible in research, policy and practice. Participatory action research (PAR) has the potential to centre these concerns, but due to unequal power relations among research participants, the approaches often fall short of their emancipatory ideals. To unpack how power influences the dynamics of representation in PAR, this paper presents an analytical framework using the metaphor of ‘puppeteering’. Puppeteering is a metaphor for how a researcher-activist resonates and catalyses both the voices (ventriloquism) and actions (marionetting) of a marginalized community. Two questions and continuums are central to the framework. First, who and where the puppeteer is (insider and outsider agents). Second, what puppeteering is (action and research; radical and managerial). Examples from climate change and health research provide illustrations and contextualizations throughout. A key complication for applying PAR to address the health impacts of climate change is that for marginalized communities, climate change typically remains a few layers removed from the determinants of health. The community’s priorities may be at odds with a research and action agenda framed in terms of climate change and health.
中文翻译:
木偶戏是在气候变化和健康参与性行动研究中解包力量的隐喻
摘要
气候变化对健康的影响分布不均,边缘化社区通常面临最可怕的后果。然而,在研究、政策和实践中,边缘化群体的担忧仍然相对不明显。参与式行动研究(PAR)有可能解决这些问题,但由于研究参与者之间的权力关系不平等,这些方法往往达不到他们的解放理想。为了揭示权力如何影响 PAR 中的表现动态,本文提出了一个使用“木偶操纵”隐喻的分析框架。木偶戏是研究人员活动家如何引起边缘化社区的声音(腹语术)和行动(牵线木偶)产生共鸣和催化的隐喻。两个问题和连续体是该框架的核心。第一的,傀儡师是谁和在哪里(内部和外部代理)。其次,什么是傀儡(行动和研究;激进和管理)。气候变化和健康研究的例子提供了贯穿始终的插图和背景化。应用 PAR 来解决气候变化对健康的影响的一个关键问题是,对于边缘化社区来说,气候变化通常与健康的决定因素相去甚远。社区的优先事项可能与气候变化和健康方面的研究和行动议程不一致。