Global provocations: Critical reflections on community based research and intervention designed at the intersections of global dynamics and local cultures

Abstract

In this short reflection I draw lessons from the essays about the ethics and epistemologies of designing community based research and interventions with a critical global sensibility. I present these as glocal provocations that call for situating communities in history and political economy; appreciating the multiplicities, intersectionalities and tensions within communities, and designing work with deep participation by a range of community based colleagues to reflect a democratic commitment to the "right to research" by those most marginalized by social arrangements and even by the checkered history of community based research.

Keywords

• situated communities, intersectionality, multiplicity, participatory community research