Academic-community collaboration,gender research,and development: pitfalls and possibilities |
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| Authors: | Barbara Cottrell Jane L. Parpart |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Meta Research and Communications , 2636 Windsor Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada , B3K 5C8 E-mail: Cottrell@eastlink.ca;2. Department of International Development Studies, History and Gender Studies , Dalhousie University , Henry Hicks Administration Building, Room 339, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada , B3H 4H6 E-mail: parpart@dal.ca |
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| Abstract: | Collaboration has become a watchword for development practitioners and theorists. Yet collaboration or partnerships between academics and community-based researchers and activists have often proved difficult. This is particularly true for partnerships with smaller, grassroots community researchers, who are generally less resourced than their academic partners. This paper focuses on such partnerships in gender research, with the aim of reflecting on past problems as well as successes in order to develop strategies for making such projects more truly collaborative, rather than a minefield of broken promises and unspoken (and sometimes spoken) resentments. |
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