Community-responsive scholar-activist research: conceptualizing capacity building and sustainability in a Northern California community-university partnership.

ABSTRACT: We critically examine the ongoing development of a collaborative, responsive, activist research process between academics and farmworkers. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with community-based researchers and scholar-activists, we assess our team's understanding of community capacity building and research sustainability as the conceptual and operational definitions of these concepts lack academic consensus. The definitions we present reflect a 12-year effort to respond to community needs through interdisciplinary research, planning, and action. Our community-university team's evolving understanding of community capacity building and research sustainability is contextualized by our community-driven, community-responsive, and collaborative process. We discuss strengths and limitations encoun

SUBMITTER: Deeb-Sossa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10621030 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature