Cowards Don't Make History

Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research

Joanne Rappaport (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478011019 (ISBN)

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In the early 1970s, a group of Colombian intellectuals led by the pioneering sociologist Orlando Fals Borda created a research-activist collective called La Rosca de InvestigaciÓn y AcciÓn Social (Circle of Research and Social Action). Combining sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements, Fals Borda and his colleagues collaborated with indigenous and peasant organizations throughout Colombia. In Cowards Don’t Make History Joanne Rappaport examines the development of participatory action research on the Caribbean coast, highlighting Fals Borda’s rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists. Fals Borda and his colleagues inserted themselves as researcher-activists into the activities of the National Association of Peasant Users, coordinated research priorities with its leaders, studied the history of peasant struggles, and, in collaboration with peasant researchers, prepared accessible materials for an organizational readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. Rappaport shows how the fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.

Joanne Rappaport is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at Georgetown University and author of The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada, Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, and Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia, all also published by Duke University Press.

List of Illustrations ix
Cast of Characters xi
Preface xvii
Introduction 1
1. The FundaciÓn del Caribe in CÓrdoba 29
2. Archives and Repertoires 46
3. Participation 66
4. Critical Recovery 94
5. Systematic Devolution 130
6. Engagement and Reflection 169
7. Fals Borda's Legacy 197
Notes 233
References Cited 243
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	39 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478011019 / 9781478011019
Zustand	Neuware