Giovanni P Dazzo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giovanni P Dazzo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giovanni P |
| FAMILY NAME | Dazzo |
| SIGNATURE | DAZZO G P |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9087-1579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Participatory Action Research
Critical participatory action research (CPAR), informed by theoretical developments that span time, geographies, and traditions, is characterized by strong ties to epistemology and is often referred to not as a research method but as an epistemological stance. CPAR suggests those who have experience with a phenomenon are experts on that phenomenon and should be the ones who lead inquiry about it. Three central concepts guide this stance: vivencia…
On Activism, Knowledge Generation, and Global Movements for Human Rights
In this article, we discuss the cancellation of research and evaluation as one of many attacks on systematically collected evidence. Such attacks have the intended purpose of opening entry points for the flow of disinformation; undermining the ability to make the case for the importance of human rights; and discrediting human rights defenders and the community organizations they lead. We make the case that knowledge generation and movement buildi…
Evaluation as Reparation, Reclamation, and Renewal
In this reflexive piece, I consider these questions: How can evaluators reframe validity as a stance and agenda rooted in restoration and healing? How can evaluation contribute more fully to transformative, restorative, and abolitionist signposts such as reparation, reclamation, and renewal? I first review the restorative validity agenda, showing how evaluators can (re)orient their theories and practices toward relationships, justice, and liberat…
It's Not Just an Assignment”
This piece is grounded in the critical feminisms within standpoint epistemology and decolonial theories. We present our histories and experiences as methodologists and evaluators using a collaborative and dialogical method, duoethnography. After reviewing one another's written memos, we engaged in conversation through voice memos and face-to-face interactions. Together, we analyzed and compared these incidents and experiences to locate how our id…
Community-Based Research as Civic Action
Literature on civic engagement has long held an adult bias and is rooted in understandings of civic participation undertaken by adults, not youth. Youth are rarely treated as civic actors in their own right, but instead as would-be civic actors. We make a case for building social science research capacity as a critical tool for civic action, especially salient for groups working toward organizational, institutional, and/or legislative change and …
Youth-Led Research and the Tensions Between Relational Methodologies and Fast Methods
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has often been characterized as a meaningful way of including young people in research about and for them. Much has been written about the need to develop trusting relationships between adult and youth researchers in this process. These types of research relationships take time to develop authentically and we see a need for that relationship-building time to be built into research designs and timelines. …
Restorative validity and healing through inquiry
This case study is an exploration of the potential restorative and healing qualities of inquiry. The co‐authors—a university‐affiliated researcher, a Kaqchikel Maya community leader, and forensic anthropologists—document their stories navigating a participatory action research project as co‐researchers. Using visual ethnography, we illustrate how we approached inquiry from a place of restorative validity , which challenges inquirers to reclaim an…
The ‘Impact’ of Ypar
The purpose of this paper is to present a conversation about how impact has been seen and felt by youth and adult co-researchers in a long-term, school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR) project, Courageous Conversations. To stay true to the epistemological commitments of YPAR, and in an effort to speak back to neocolonial and neoliberal definitions of impact, we have intentionally chosen to center the words of the school-based co-r…
Performance as transformation / transformative
In participatory action research (PAR), university-based researchers often take foundational concepts such as transformation, empowerment, critical consciousness, and mutual understanding for granted as desirable or necessary outcomes or achievements. We discuss the danger of this and suggest that researchers recognize these as processes that participants may or may not experience, achieve, or even desire. In this manuscript, four members of a lo…
Can Research Heal? Toward Restorative Validity
This work begins with a simple premise: (re)imagining a healing space for social inquiry. I briefly highlight the work of a critical participatory action research collective-composed of Maya community members, nonprofit staff, and a university-affiliated researcher-and how we explored whether research could provide a restorative function for those experiencing trauma, abuse, and everyday restrictions on free will. We revisited our co-constructed …
Examining Researcher Identity Development within the Context of a Course on PAR
In this paper we explore the ways in which a group of doctoral students grapples with the epistemology of participatory action research (PAR) in relation to their own personal and professional identities and research agendas while taking a course on PAR. As a professor of research methodology and two doctoral students, we examine the entangled and often hidden processes of teaching and learning PAR in order to identify experiences or events that …
Can Research Heal? Toward Restorative Validity
This work begins with a simple premise: (re)imagining a healing space for social inquiry. I briefly highlight the work of a critical participatory action research collective-composed of Maya community members, nonprofit staff, and a university-affiliated researcher-and how we explored whether research could provide a restorative function for those experiencing trauma, abuse, and everyday restrictions on free will. We revisited our co-constructed …
Youth-Led Research and the Tensions Between Relational Methodologies and Fast Methods
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has often been characterized as a meaningful way of including young people in research about and for them. Much has been written about the need to develop trusting relationships between adult and youth researchers in this process. These types of research relationships take time to develop authentically and we see a need for that relationship-building time to be built into research designs and timelines. …
It's Not Just an Assignment”
This piece is grounded in the critical feminisms within standpoint epistemology and decolonial theories. We present our histories and experiences as methodologists and evaluators using a collaborative and dialogical method, duoethnography. After reviewing one another's written memos, we engaged in conversation through voice memos and face-to-face interactions. Together, we analyzed and compared these incidents and experiences to locate how our id…
Examining Researcher Identity Development within the Context of a Course on PAR
In this paper we explore the ways in which a group of doctoral students grapples with the epistemology of participatory action research (PAR) in relation to their own personal and professional identities and research agendas while taking a course on PAR. As a professor of research methodology and two doctoral students, we examine the entangled and often hidden processes of teaching and learning PAR in order to identify experiences or events that …
Examining Researcher Identity Development within the Context of a Course on PAR
In this paper we explore the ways in which a group of doctoral students grapples with the epistemology of participatory action research (PAR) in relation to their own personal and professional identities and research agendas while taking a course on PAR. As a professor of research methodology and two doctoral students, we examine the entangled and often hidden processes of teaching and learning PAR in order to identify experiences or events that …
Restorative validity and healing through inquiry
This case study is an exploration of the potential restorative and healing qualities of inquiry. The co‐authors—a university‐affiliated researcher, a Kaqchikel Maya community leader, and forensic anthropologists—document their stories navigating a participatory action research project as co‐researchers. Using visual ethnography, we illustrate how we approached inquiry from a place of restorative validity , which challenges inquirers to reclaim an…
The ‘Impact’ of Ypar
The purpose of this paper is to present a conversation about how impact has been seen and felt by youth and adult co-researchers in a long-term, school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR) project, Courageous Conversations. To stay true to the epistemological commitments of YPAR, and in an effort to speak back to neocolonial and neoliberal definitions of impact, we have intentionally chosen to center the words of the school-based co-r…
Performance as transformation / transformative
In participatory action research (PAR), university-based researchers often take foundational concepts such as transformation, empowerment, critical consciousness, and mutual understanding for granted as desirable or necessary outcomes or achievements. We discuss the danger of this and suggest that researchers recognize these as processes that participants may or may not experience, achieve, or even desire. In this manuscript, four members of a lo…
Can Research Heal? Toward Restorative Validity
This work begins with a simple premise: (re)imagining a healing space for social inquiry. I briefly highlight the work of a critical participatory action research collective-composed of Maya community members, nonprofit staff, and a university-affiliated researcher-and how we explored whether research could provide a restorative function for those experiencing trauma, abuse, and everyday restrictions on free will. We revisited our co-constructed …
Youth-Led Research and the Tensions Between Relational Methodologies and Fast Methods
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has often been characterized as a meaningful way of including young people in research about and for them. Much has been written about the need to develop trusting relationships between adult and youth researchers in this process. These types of research relationships take time to develop authentically and we see a need for that relationship-building time to be built into research designs and timelines. …
On Activism, Knowledge Generation, and Global Movements for Human Rights
In this article, we discuss the cancellation of research and evaluation as one of many attacks on systematically collected evidence. Such attacks have the intended purpose of opening entry points for the flow of disinformation; undermining the ability to make the case for the importance of human rights; and discrediting human rights defenders and the community organizations they lead. We make the case that knowledge generation and movement buildi…
Evaluation as Reparation, Reclamation, and Renewal
In this reflexive piece, I consider these questions: How can evaluators reframe validity as a stance and agenda rooted in restoration and healing? How can evaluation contribute more fully to transformative, restorative, and abolitionist signposts such as reparation, reclamation, and renewal? I first review the restorative validity agenda, showing how evaluators can (re)orient their theories and practices toward relationships, justice, and liberat…
It's Not Just an Assignment”
This piece is grounded in the critical feminisms within standpoint epistemology and decolonial theories. We present our histories and experiences as methodologists and evaluators using a collaborative and dialogical method, duoethnography. After reviewing one another's written memos, we engaged in conversation through voice memos and face-to-face interactions. Together, we analyzed and compared these incidents and experiences to locate how our id…
Community-Based Research as Civic Action
Literature on civic engagement has long held an adult bias and is rooted in understandings of civic participation undertaken by adults, not youth. Youth are rarely treated as civic actors in their own right, but instead as would-be civic actors. We make a case for building social science research capacity as a critical tool for civic action, especially salient for groups working toward organizational, institutional, and/or legislative change and …
Critical Participatory Action Research
Critical participatory action research (CPAR), informed by theoretical developments that span time, geographies, and traditions, is characterized by strong ties to epistemology and is often referred to not as a research method but as an epistemological stance. CPAR suggests those who have experience with a phenomenon are experts on that phenomenon and should be the ones who lead inquiry about it. Three central concepts guide this stance: vivencia…
Participatory Visual Research Methods (8 works) · Action research (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Participatory action research (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (4 works)