Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic Intellectuals
This article aims to provoke a discussion around conceiving community members as community-based research facilitators and leaders of their own process of change. It argues this is possible by rescuing Gramsci’s legacy of organic intellectuals that is present in community-based research literature,...
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This article aims to provoke a discussion around conceiving community members as community-based research facilitators and leaders of their own process of change. It argues this is possible by rescuing Gramsci’s legacy of organic intellectuals that is present in community-based research literature, particularly under the participatory research rubric. However, this perspective has been overshadowed by a strong emphasis on community-based research (CBR) as a collaborative research approach rather than a people’s approach for knowledge production that leads to social transformation. Furthermore, such a view of community-based research is fruitful within an adult education and social movement learning framework. In a sense, social movements provide an environment that facilitates critical consciousness and the formation of organic intellectuals and in which communities and academics learn to better engage in partnership for community-led social change. In this context, CBR is still a collaborative approach, but one led primarily by organic intellectuals.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8a58fea09824509911a0eca9f0ad4522023-09-26T23:16:07ZengUniversity of SaskatchewanEngaged Scholar Journal2369-11902368-416X2022-12-018310.15402/esj.v8i3.70755Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic IntellectualsJosé Wellington Sousa0University of Regina This article aims to provoke a discussion around conceiving community members as community-based research facilitators and leaders of their own process of change. It argues this is possible by rescuing Gramsci’s legacy of organic intellectuals that is present in community-based research literature, particularly under the participatory research rubric. However, this perspective has been overshadowed by a strong emphasis on community-based research (CBR) as a collaborative research approach rather than a people’s approach for knowledge production that leads to social transformation. Furthermore, such a view of community-based research is fruitful within an adult education and social movement learning framework. In a sense, social movements provide an environment that facilitates critical consciousness and the formation of organic intellectuals and in which communities and academics learn to better engage in partnership for community-led social change. In this context, CBR is still a collaborative approach, but one led primarily by organic intellectuals. https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/70755organic intellectualsadult educationcommunity-based research facilitation |
| spellingShingle | José Wellington Sousa Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic Intellectuals Engaged Scholar Journal organic intellectuals adult education community-based research facilitation |
| title | Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic Intellectuals |
| title_full | Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic Intellectuals |
| title_fullStr | Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic Intellectuals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic Intellectuals |
| title_short | Liberating Community-based Research: Rescuing Gramsci’s Legacy of Organic Intellectuals |
| title_sort | liberating community based research rescuing gramsci s legacy of organic intellectuals |
| topic | organic intellectuals adult education community-based research facilitation |
| url | https://esj.usask.ca/index.php/esj/article/view/70755 |
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