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This chapter builds on theoretical research that I have conducted over the past decade on both critical ethnography and participatory action research (PAR) (Jordan, 2002, 2003b). Originally, the aim of this research was to problematize what I perceived to be taken-for-granted practices in the conduct of mainstream qualitative research that were still shaped and informed by colonial relations generated by nineteenth-century anthropology and ethnography (Jordan, 1993). I became increasingly aware, however, that these relations were not simply historical residues that were specific to the conceptual practices of anthropology, but were more widely distributed throughout the social sciences, as Smith’s work in relation to sociology has amply demonstrated (Smith, 1987, 1990a, 1990b, 1994). As a consequence I turned my attention to forms of PAR that, historically, had been generated outside the academy by social movements in the Global South that appeared to hold out the possibility of eschewing the colonial legacy of mainstream social sciences.
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Jordan, S. (2009). From a Methodology of the Margins to Neoliberal Appropriation and Beyond: The Lineages of PAR. In: Kapoor, D., Jordan, S. (eds) Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100640_2
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