| Reconciling Local and Global Agendas in Sustainable Development： Participatory Research with Indigenous Andean Communities |
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| 作者姓名： | Robert E. Rhoades Virginia Nazarea |
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| 作者单位： | University of Georgia USA，Professor of Anthropology University of Georgia USA |
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| 摘 要： | Introduction In tracing the pioneering influences which created the 1980s participatory research movement in international agriculture, health and conserva- tion, the experiences of Latin America must be highlighted. Activist participatory research itselfwas originally inspired by Paulo Freire, the influential Brazilian educator whose pedagogical teachings have been commonplace throughout South America since the 1960s (Freire 1968, Chambers 1994a). Due to a multitude of social forces betwe…
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| 关 键 词： | 安第斯山区 厄瓜多尔 土著人社区 可持续开发 参与式分担研究 局部目标 总体目标 |
| 文章编号： | 1672-6316（2006）04-0334-13 |
| 收稿时间： | 2006-05-29 |
| 修稿时间： | 2006-11-12 |
Reconciling local and global agendas in sustainable development: Participatory research with indigenous Andean communities |
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| Robert E. Rhoades Virginia Nazarea.Reconciling local and global agendas in sustainable development: Participatory research with indigenous Andean communities[J].Journal of Mountain Science,2006,3(4):334-346. |
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| Authors: | Robert E Rhoades Virginia Nazarea |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Georgia, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper discusses participatory research in the Andes and presents a case study in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where sustainability
scientists and indigenous people seek common ground in their respective but drastically different research and social agendas.
Participatory research based on Andean experiences pre-dated and inspired much of the later international movement in agriculture,
health, and conservation. Andean communities have a long history in demanding that outsiders address the needs of the community
as a condition for carrying out scientific or applied activities. What an Andean community, however, sees as relevant may
or may not be within the rubric of ‘participatory research’ as it is practiced throughout much of the world. In fact, overzealous
participatory researchers are just as bothersome as their predecessors bearing long questionnaires. More important to Andean
people is an equitable relationship with researchers and developers in which exchanges of value are made. A distinction between
‘enriching’ and ‘extractive’ research is drawn. In the case of the SANREM project in Cotacachi, Ecuador, scientists carried
out enriching research activities of interest to local people as a way to generate social capital for conducting basic research
which does not have an obvious, immediate local benefit. The requested research did not have a conventional participatory
methodology but provided valuable products (educational opportunity, germplasm, community visualization tools, and information)
to the indigenous community in exchange for time and resources to conduct research on more basic natural resource questions.
We argue that in the Andean context the key to reconciling the needs of scientists and of local needs is seeking new forms
of equitable collaboration which reach beyond the present and now somewhat tired discourse of ‘participation’. |
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| Keywords: | Andes indigenous peoples participatory research sustainability |
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