학술논문
Community-Based Participant-Observation (CBPO): A Participatory Method for Ethnographic Research
Document Type
Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Reports - Descriptive
Author
Anais Roque (ORCID 0000-0003-4686-9652 ); Amber Wutich; Alexandra Brewis (ORCID 0000-0003-3769-4205 ); Melissa Beresford (ORCID 0000-0002-5707-3943 ); Laura Landes; Olga Morales-Pate; Ramon Lucero; Wendy Jepson; Yushiou Tsai; Michael Hanemann
Source
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1525-822X
1552-3969
1552-3969
Abstract
Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align researchers' and communities' agendas through focused collaboration. Participant-observation and community-based participatory research have different scholarly origins and norms but are united in centering communities' understandings on their terms. Combining the strengths of both, we provide a step-by-step explanation of community-based participant-observation, with examples from a study of water insecurity in colonias north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Using community-based participant-observation, researchers can facilitate the co-production of knowledge and community benefit by analyzing high-quality data that inform theory building and basic research. [The authors acknowledge the co-authorship of the Action for Water Equity Consortium.]