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(En)tangled Ethics and Relational Mobilities: Reflections on Decolonial Feminist Digital Participatory Action
1School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Action Research (London)
|July 31, 2026
Summary
This study examines decolonial feminist digital participatory action research (DPAR) in Nicaragua, focusing on bicycling, gender justice, and mobility. It highlights ethical considerations for using technology in research to address violence and inequality.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Feminist Geography
- Digital Research Methods
Background:
- Digital participatory action research (DPAR) offers innovative approaches to community-based studies.
- Feminist ethics of care and relational mobilities provide frameworks for understanding justice and inequality.
- Rural Nicaragua faces intertwined challenges of mobility justice, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and climate change.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore ethical challenges in decolonial feminist DPAR.
- To investigate the use of digital tools in addressing SGBV and environmental precarity.
- To reflect on the intersection of mobilities, gender justice, and technological interventions.
Main Methods:
- Collaborative digital participatory action research (DPAR) with co-researchers.
- Utilizing digital methods like photovoice and participatory GIS mapping with GoPro cameras.
- Reflexive feminist ethics of care guiding the research process.
Main Results:
- Digital methods revealed layered dynamics of gendered, racialized, and ecological injustice in everyday mobilities.
- Co-researchers mapped community spaces affected by SGBV and environmental precarity.
- Identified tensions in using technology that might reproduce structural inequalities.
Conclusions:
- Decolonial feminist DPAR necessitates a reflexive ethics of care.
- Ethical considerations are crucial when employing technological interventions in research.
- Digital tools can support advocacy, but must prioritize relational mobilities and co-researcher accountability.
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