2024/10/01 by Lisa J. Hardy · 2 voices
Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics #Mental Health and Patient Involvement
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/08884552.2024.2408934
Anthropologists are storytellers and listeners. Our love of stories translates into a desire to tell the stories of research and practice in meaningful ways. Communication is central to our practice even when we encounter competing interests and tensions of publishing. This special collection, “Community at the Heart of Research,” contains reflective writing, poetry, and art created with researchers and community health workers connected by a project at the US-Mexico border. It serves as an example of relational publishing as a process of building trust, capacity, partnership, and knowledge together while retaining authorship of storytellers and artists themselves. Here I describe the processes of relational publishing, authorship, access, and distribution in this collection and in storytelling in published form.