Jóse W Meléndez
Biographic Data
| ID | 6640939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jóse W Meléndez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jóse W |
| FAMILY NAME | Meléndez |
| SIGNATURE | MELÉNDEZ J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5775-6069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cascadia Coastal Hazards and Resilience Training, Education, and Research (CHARTER) Fellows Mentoring Model for Underrepresented Students
Transforming Collaborative Governing Bodies for Immigrants’ Authentic Engagement
Problem, research strategy, and findings In the Pacific Northwest, immigration has brought about unprecedented demographic changes. In this study we investigated the urban governance practice of including members of the public on collaborative governing bodies (e.g., committees, boards, planning commissions) among first- and second-generation immigrants in Oregon. We conducted 46 semistructured interviews with immigrant members of collaborative g…
Experience, expertise, and the rational ideal
Building on longstanding debates about communicative rationality in policymaking, this article introduces the “funds of knowledge” approach to identifying how individuals access and utilize information in public discourse. Drawing on 46 interviews with first- and second-generation immigrants serving on public decision-making bodies in Oregon, the authors analyzed a subset of individuals who used their lived experience, rational expertise, or both…
Latino immigrants in civil society
Background The author discusses an in-depth study of the participatory budgeting process in Chicago’s 49th Ward (PB49), a deliberative democratic process in which all residents and ideas were positioned as equal, relying on rational arguments to make decisions about municipal funding allocations. The study documented collective decision-making practices as they related specifically to predominantly Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants.Methods Utili…
Differentiating Participation
Participatory planning has faced challenges engaging predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrants beyond the bottom rungs of Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation. Participating at any level of the ladder requires individual civic skills, or capacities, that are integral to participatory processes. However, the specific skills necessary for collective action are less certain, due in part to a lack of clear definitions and a lack of clarity abou…
Designing for equitable civic engagement
A common theme of research on participatory democracy and citizen engagement centres on the need for empirical studies that conduct a deep exploration of the nuances and complexities of these processes. This article offers a distinct response to this need through an examination of two ethnographic case studies of a participatory budgeting process in a multilingual, highly diverse community in which Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants were involved…
Designing for equitable civic engagement
A common theme of research on participatory democracy and citizen engagement centres on the need for empirical studies that conduct a deep exploration of the nuances and complexities of these processes. This article offers a distinct response to this need through an examination of two ethnographic case studies of a participatory budgeting process in a multilingual, highly diverse community in which Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants were involved…
Differentiating Participation
Participatory planning has faced challenges engaging predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrants beyond the bottom rungs of Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation. Participating at any level of the ladder requires individual civic skills, or capacities, that are integral to participatory processes. However, the specific skills necessary for collective action are less certain, due in part to a lack of clear definitions and a lack of clarity abou…
Designing for equitable civic engagement
A common theme of research on participatory democracy and citizen engagement centres on the need for empirical studies that conduct a deep exploration of the nuances and complexities of these processes. This article offers a distinct response to this need through an examination of two ethnographic case studies of a participatory budgeting process in a multilingual, highly diverse community in which Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants were involved…
Latino immigrants in civil society
Background The author discusses an in-depth study of the participatory budgeting process in Chicago’s 49th Ward (PB49), a deliberative democratic process in which all residents and ideas were positioned as equal, relying on rational arguments to make decisions about municipal funding allocations. The study documented collective decision-making practices as they related specifically to predominantly Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants.Methods Utili…
Differentiating Participation
Participatory planning has faced challenges engaging predominantly Spanish-speaking immigrants beyond the bottom rungs of Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation. Participating at any level of the ladder requires individual civic skills, or capacities, that are integral to participatory processes. However, the specific skills necessary for collective action are less certain, due in part to a lack of clear definitions and a lack of clarity abou…
Experience, expertise, and the rational ideal
Building on longstanding debates about communicative rationality in policymaking, this article introduces the “funds of knowledge” approach to identifying how individuals access and utilize information in public discourse. Drawing on 46 interviews with first- and second-generation immigrants serving on public decision-making bodies in Oregon, the authors analyzed a subset of individuals who used their lived experience, rational expertise, or both…
Transforming Collaborative Governing Bodies for Immigrants’ Authentic Engagement
Problem, research strategy, and findings In the Pacific Northwest, immigration has brought about unprecedented demographic changes. In this study we investigated the urban governance practice of including members of the public on collaborative governing bodies (e.g., committees, boards, planning commissions) among first- and second-generation immigrants in Oregon. We conducted 46 semistructured interviews with immigrant members of collaborative g…
The Cascadia Coastal Hazards and Resilience Training, Education, and Research (CHARTER) Fellows Mentoring Model for Underrepresented Students
Political science (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Citizen journalism (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)