Critical Futures

Stuart R. Poyntz is a professor and associate director of the School of Communication and a director of the Community-Engaged Research Centre Initiative at Simon Fraser University.Kari Grain is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education and coordinator of the master of education program in Adult Learning and Global Change (ALGC) at the University of British Columbia; she also serves as a research associate for the Community-Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University.Am Johal is the director of the Vancity Office of Community Engagement and co-director of the Community-Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University.

• ForewordTimothy K. Eatman Introduction: Crisis and Social Transformation in Community-Engaged ResearchStuart R. Poyntz, Am Johal, and Kari Grain Part 1: Transformations, Complexities, and Critical ConversationsIntroduction: Reimagining Community-Engaged Research1. Pushing Against, Reaching Towards: Commitments, Contingencies, and Contestations in Community-Engaged Research and Practice Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Sarah Switzer2. Community-Engaged Research and the “Right to be Rural” Sean Markey, S. Ashleigh Weeden, Ryan Gibson, Greg Halseth, and Laura Ryser3. Money, Power, and Reciprocity: Financial Transactions and Critical Reciprocity in Community-Engaged Research Vanessa Fong, Kari Grain, Stuart R. Poyntz, and Amanda Wager4. How Community-Engaged Research and Learning Became “Work-Integrated Learning” (WIL): The Shifting Discourses of Canadian Experiential Learning David Peacock5. Relational Soil Care: A Community-Engaged Response to Global Soil Crisis Katherine Lawless, David Janzen, and Ed Gregorich6. The Ethics of Care in a Pandemic: Weaving Together Anti-Racist Practice and Disability Justice in our Community-Engaged Work Ciann Wilson and Natalie Kivell7. Your $20 Starbucks Gift Card Isn’t Helping: A Conversation about Community-Based Research as a Cooperative Undertaking Adam Gaudry and Matt HernPart 2: Decolonization and IndigenizationIntroduction: Decolonization and Decolonizing Practices in CER8. Community-Engaged Research for Self-Determination: Decolonial Urban Strategies Lyana Patrick9. Relational Accountability and Reconcilia(c)tion in Two-Spirit Research and Education Harlan Pruden and Travis Salway10. The Elephant in the Room: Tokenism, Currency, and Dispossession in Community-Engaged Research Jessica Hallenbeck and Rosemary Georgeson11. “The Circle”: Circular and Relational Research in Response to Complexity and Crisis Sharon Karsten12. Decolonizing Community-Based Research: A Four Quadrants Approach to Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 on Elders and Seniors Crystal Tremblay, Tanya Clarmont, Lisa Mercure, Emily Dzyngel, and Katie DzyngelPart 3: Case Studies and Field PerspectivesIntroduction: Case Studies from the Field13. Changing the System: Steps Towards Empowering Community Governance of Research Ethics in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver Scott D. Neufeld, Jules Chapman, Nicholas D. Leech (Crier), Samona Marsh, and Jim McLeod14. Art at Work and Workers as Artists: Project Thinking, Craft, and Creativity in Community-Engaged Research Will Garrett-Petts and Evelyn Asiedu15. Exploring Transformative Reciprocity in Community-Engaged Learning Rhianna Nagel, Alexandra Haupt, Kathy Sanford, Lilaine Galway, and Lisa Mort-Putland16. Learning in Public: Towards Critically Hopeful Practices in a CER Support Unit Elizabeth Jackson17. Seizing the Moment: Community-Campus Conversations to Support Communities Through and Beyond the Pandemic Lynn Gidluck, Amber J. Fletcher, and Magda Goemans18. Using Dialogic Methods and Tools to Identify Accessible Collaboration Pathways between Communities and Campuses: A Case Study with Ashoka Fellows and Changemaker Campuses Charmaine Lyn, Nicole Norris, and Jennifer DeCosteConclusion: The Future of Community-Engaged ResearchStuart R. Poyntz, Kari Grain, and Am Johal ContributorsIndex