Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 040: Who Speaks for the Community? Complicating Power, Representation and Decision Making II
Room: Drummond West

Sponsor: Community, Research, and Practice

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Susan Halverson, Portland State University

Description: 

Social science researchers likely all engage with communities in some way. But what does "community" actually mean? Who is included and excluded, and who participates? Who is considered a valid representative of the community? How is power distributed and used in communities? The papers in this session explore and complicate community power, representation, and decision-making in spatial/geographic, identity, and interest communities.

Papers:

“Restoring Dignity to Language Translations of the Jicarilla Apache: The Retranslation of Goddard Texts: A Restorative Justice-informed Research Collaboration,” Mariann Skahan, The University of New Mexico

“Unequal Participation: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Planning Processes in Two Rust Belt Cities,” Athena Nicole Last, Jobs to Move America

“Bureaucratic Violence in Community Engagement: A ‘For Us, by Us’ Approach to Mitigating Harm in Community-university Partnerships,” Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

“The Person in Socially-engaged Scholarship: Social Change, Human Dignity, and Radical Personalist Analysis,” Allison S. Reed, Washington University in St. Louis

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