Reflections of a community-based participatory researcher from the intersection of disability advocacy, engineering, and the academy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dora Raymaker (0000-0001-8237-6041, Portland State University, corresponding author), Dora M Raymaker (Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 258-275 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750316636669 |
| PMID | 29097906 |
| OpenAlex | W2306059042 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article uses an evocative autoethnographic approach to explore the experience of being an insider-researcher in a community-based participatory research setting. Taking a holistic perspective and using the form of narrative story-telling, I examine the dynamics between the typically marginalizing (but sometimes empowering) experience of being an autistic woman and the typically privileging (but sometimes oppressive) experience of being an engineering professional, during a time of career upheaval. Themes of motivations and mentors, adversity from social services and the academy, belonging, the slipperiness of intersectional positioning, feedback cycles of opportunity, dichotomies of competence and inadequacy, heightened stakes, and power and resistance are explored through the narrative. While primarily leaving the narrative to speak for itself per the qualitative approach taken, the article concludes with a discussion of how the personal experiences described relate both to the broader work of insider-researchers within disability-related fields, and to misconceptions about self-reflection and capacity for story-telling in individuals on the autism spectrum
Autoethnography · Citizen journalism · Disability studies · Epistemology · Insider · Narrative · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Reflexivity · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research · Disability Education and Employment · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Psychology
The Aaspire practice-based guidelines for the inclusion of autistic adults in research as co-researchers and study participants
Supporting neurodiversity in higher degree research supervision
The ableism elephant in the academy
It is like being put through a blender’
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence
Community-based participatory research with communities defined by race, ethnicity, and disability
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Designing Qualitative Research
Community-based Participatory Research
The fifth discipline, the art and practice of the learning organization
Reflexivity in Research
The anatomy of revolution.
Disability and Discourses of Web Accessibility
Disability and the Internet
The Expertise Effect on Web Accessibility Evaluation Methods
Collaboration Strategies in Nontraditional Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships
User-Centered Policy Evaluations of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
Can the Web Be Made Accessible for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Paradigm Shifts in Disability and Health
Changing the Social Relations of Research Production
The Time- and Context-Contingent Nature of Intersectionality and Interlocking Oppressions
Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |