Our guest today is Dr. Andrea Cornwall. Dr. Cornwall is a political anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of democracy in participatory research, gender justice and sexuality, and citizen participation. Her work focuses on what needs to change to give those affected by decisions, a voice in those very decisions, particularly focusing on the rights of women and sexual minorities. She calls for "troubling masculinities" in PAR, expecting powerful men to examine how their doing of masculinity impacts and informs their PAR. Dr. Cornwall has written and worked extensively on the issues of participatory approaches to transform relationships of knowledge and power, and this is from and in participatory development, participatory rural appraisal, participatory action research. You can find a more comprehensive bio and a partial publications list on our companion website, parfemtrailblazers.net as well as a link to a magnificent Wikipedia entry about Andrea.
In this episode, Pat and Andrea discuss Andrea’s work, struggles, successes, bringing participatory values and ways of being to PAR, and we hope that these conversations really help all of us re-vision a participatory and action research that's deeply informed by intersectional feminisms.
This episode is brought to you by host Patricia Maguire and is produced by Vanessa Gold. Music is by ZakharValaha from Pixabay.
