"Som erfarenhetsforskare, då är man med och bestämmer i forskningsprojektet" : en autoetnografisk studie om en gemensam forskningsprocess

• In a participatory action research project, we emphasize experiences of collaboration between aca-demic and community researchers by applying analytical autoethnography. The aim of the article is to describe the research process which involves both individual and collaborative processes, and to analyze challenges in relation to participation in the ongoing research process. We identified four themes: Start-up and initial challenges, Conditions and structural prerequisites for collabo-ration, Joint development of work methods and Power and role distribution. Our findings are presented in two separate analyses; a collaborative inductive analysis and an academic led theore-tical analysis in which Arnstein’s ladder of participation and Fricker’s concept of epistemic injus-tice are utilized in order to scrutinize challenges related to different degrees of participation in the research process. The results demonstrate that shared hermeneutic resources are necessary for the mitigation of epistemic injustice and enablement of mutual learning processes, such as collective writing processes. The results also indicate that a full participation for community researchers in the entire research process was difficult to achieve, both in relation to structural resources such as allocated time, and in relation to perceptions of meaning- making aspects, for example, indivi-dual interests and contributionsin terms of knowledge.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Participatory research

participatory design

co-creative processes

implementation

epistemic injustice

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