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Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) as Praxis-Based Research: The Case of Sister’s Garden Uiseong Community

  • 아시아여성연구
  • 2025, 64(3), pp.425~464
  • Publisher : Research Institute of Asian Women
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Gender Studies
  • Received : October 30, 2025
  • Accepted : December 11, 2025
  • Published : December 30, 2025

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1서울대학교 교육연구소
2미네소타대학교
3전국여성농민회총연합 경북연합

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to examine the development of Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) as a praxis-oriented research methodology and to analyze the limitations and possibilities that emerge through its application. By doing so, the study identifies the potential contributions of FPAR to the broader research ecology. The analysis draws on an FPAR project undertaken between 2019 and 2021 with women farmers in the Sister’s Garden Uiseong Community. While the case revealed institutional constraints and the inherent limitations of “invited participation,” it also demonstrated a transformative process in which women farmers became co-producers of knowledge. Moreover, as researchers and participants negotiated and addressed conflicts that arose in the early stages of the project, the power dynamics between the two groups were reconfigured. The positioning of participants as knowledge holders, external researchers as facilitators, and internal researchers as mediators demonstrates the feminist potential of solidarity and highlights the ways in which FPAR can contribute to the advancement of decolonizing research methodologies.

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