New Publication: A Letter to Community-Based Researchers
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We are pleased to congratulate Sarah Switzer, CCBR Director of Research and Education on the publication of a co-authored chapter "Pushing Against, Reaching Towards: Commitments, Contingencies, and Contestations in Community-Engaged Research and Practice" in the book Critical Futures: Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation, co-edited by Stuart Poyntz, Kari Grain and Am Johal (University of Toronto Press, 2025).
The chapter was co-authored with Professor Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Department of Social Justice Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Written as a letter to "community-engaged research practitioners, dreamers, and co-conspirators,” the chapter reflects on five core commitments—"solidarity, participation, engagement, action, and futurity"—while grappling with the tensions and complexities that emerge in community-engaged research and practice. The larger open-access book, Critical Futures brings together scholars, community researchers, and activists to examine how community-engaged research is being reimagined amid ongoing social, political, and environmental crises.
Read the chapter – and chapters from other community-based researchers – online, or order your copy today:
The book is open access. Download it and read it today!
