Prajateerpu, Power and Knowledge

Prajateerpu(translation: ‘people’s verdict’) has been devised as an exercise for allowing those people most affected by the ‘Vision 2020’ for food and farming in Andhra Pradesh (AP, India) to shape a vision of their own. We explore Prajateerpuas a case study in participatory action research that took place against a background of social, political and scientific controversy in which we were active participants. Having examined different methods in combination, including the citizens’ jury, scenario workshop and public hearings involved in the Prajateerpuprocess, we assess the safeguards that were put in place to ensure a balanced and credible deliberative process. We suggest that the exchanges between the five organizations that formed the core team, the facilitators, oversight panel, witnesses, and jurors in Prajateerpu, along with the use of a set of carefully designed safeguards, may contain valuable lessons for those who wish to engage in collaborative inquiries where the political stakes in the outcome of this way of knowing are high

Action (physics · Citizen journalism · Deliberation · Jury · Knowledge management · Knowledge translation · Participatory action research · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Verdict · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture

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