Participatory Action Research

  • Lykes, M. B., *Bianco, M. E., & *Távara, G. (2021). Contributions and limitations of diverse qualitative methods to feminist participatory and action research with women in the wake of gross violations of human rights. Methods in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2020.100043. (PDF available).

  • *Bhattacharyya, S., Lykes, M. B., & Carrasco, J. (2020) ‘Echo Images’: An arts-based feedback tool for qualitative research interviews. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 30, 62-72.

  • Lykes, M. B., *Távara, G., *Sibley, E. & *Ferreira van Leer, K. (2020). Maya K’iche’ families and intergenerational migration within and across borders: An exploratory mixed-methods study. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 6(1), 52-73.

  • Lykes, M. B. & *Távara, G. (2020). Feminist participatory action research: Co-constructing liberation psychological praxis through dialogic relationality and critical reflexivity. In Comas Diaz, L. and E. Torres-Rivera (Eds.) Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 111-130.

  • *Hershberg, R. M. & Lykes, M. B. (2019). Fathering within transnational and mixed-status Mayan families: An exploratory study. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 8(2), 59-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ipp0000104

  • Crosby, A. & Lykes, M. B. (2019). Beyond repair? Mayan women’s protagonism in the aftermath of genocidal harm. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

    • Spanish translation: Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Cholsamaj. (PDF in Spanish available here)

  • Lykes, M.B., *Lloyd, C., & Nicholson, K.M. (2018). Participatory action research within and beyond the academy: Contesting racism through decolonial praxis and teaching against the grain. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62(3/4), 406-418. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12290

  • *Távara, G., Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2018). Standing in between: The healing praxis of Mayan women intermediaries in post genocide Guatemala. Women and Therapy, 41(1-2), 30-51. doi: 10.1080/02703149.2017.1323477

  • *Bhattacharyya, S., *Kaur, J., *Corpus, G., Lykes, M. B. & Heesacker, M. (2018). “There Are Many Social Evils and Only We Can Cure It”: A Thematic Content Analysis of Privileged Indian Youth’s Perspective on Social Issues. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 10(1), 2-29.

  • Lykes, M. B. (2017). Community-based and Participatory Action Research: Community psychology collaborations within and across borders. In Bond, M. A., Keys, C. B. & Serrano-García, I. & Shinn, S. (Eds.) Handbook of Community Psychology, Volume II. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 43-58.

  • McGillen, G., Bhattacharyya, S. & Lykes, M. B. (2016). Undocumented migrants, rights literacy, and ESOL classrooms: A community-university partnership to enhance psychopolitical learning. LEARNing Landscapes, 10 (1), 183-198.

  • Dutta, U., Sonn, C. C. & Lykes, M. B. (2016). Situating and contesting structural violence in community based research and action. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 2(2), 1-20.

  • Dutta, U., Sonn, C. C. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.). (2016). Structural violence and community based research. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 2(2). Entire Issue.

  • Sánchez Ares, R. & Lykes, M. B. (2016). Mayan young women and photovoice: Exposing state violence(s) and gendered migration in rural Guatemala. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 2(2), 56-78. (PDF in Spanish available here)

  • Lykes, M. B. & Scheib, H. (2016). Visual methodologies and participatory action research: Performing women’s community-based health promotion in post-Katrina New Orleans. Global Public Health, 11(5-6), 1-19. doi:10.1080/17441692.2016.1170180

  • Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2015). Participatory action research as a resource for community regeneration in post-conflict contexts. In Bretherton, D. & Law, S. F. Methodologies in Peace Psychology: Peace Research by Peaceful Means. New York: Springer, pp. 237-254.

  • Kanstroom, D. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.) (2015). The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses. New York: New York University Press. With two original chapters:

    • Kanstroom, D. & Lykes, M. B. Migration, Detention, and Deportation: Dilemmas and Responses, pp. 1-32

    • Lykes, M. B., Sibley, E., Brabeck, K. M., Hunter, C. & Johansen, Y. Participatory Action Research with Transnational and Mixed Status Families: Understanding and Responding to post-9/11 Threats to Migrants, pp. 193-226

  • Lykes, M.B. & Scheib, H. (2015). The artistry of emancipatory practice: Photovoice, creative techniques, and feminist anti-racist participatory action research. In Bradbury-Huang, H. (Ed.) Handbook of Action Research III. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. pp. 131-142.

  • Brabeck, K., Lykes, M.B., Sibley, E. & Kene, P. (2015). Ethical ambiguities in participatory action research with unauthorized migrants. Ethics and Behavior, 25(1), 21-36. doi: 10.1080/10508422.2014.920707 Published on-line September 2014.

  • Lykes, M.B. (2014). Maya Women of Chajul. In Coghlan, D. & Brydon-Miller, M. (Eds). The SAGE encyclopedia of action research. (Vols. 1-2) (pp. 529-532).Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406

  • Lykes, M. B. & Crosby, A. (2014). Feminist Practice of Community and Participatory and Action Research. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Feminist Research Practice: A Primer. Second Edition. Thousand Oak, CA: SAGE. pp. 145-181.

  • Lykes, M. B. (2013). Participatory and Action Research as a Transformative Praxis: Responding to Humanitarian Crises from the Margins. American Psychologist, 68(8), 772-783. DOI: 10.1037/a0034360 (Spanish translation available here)

  • Lykes, M. B. Participatory/Action Research (2013). In Keith, K. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers

  • Scheib, H. & Lykes, M. B. (2013). African American and Latina Community Health Workers engage PhotoPAR as a resource in a post-disaster context: Katrina at 5 years. Journal of Health Psychology, 18(8), 1069-1084. DOI: 10.1177/1359105312470127

  • Lykes, M. B., Brabeck, K. M. & Hunter, C. (2013). Exploring Parent-Child Communication in the Context of Threat: Mixed-status families facing detention and deportation in post 9/11 USA. Community, Work and Family, 16(2), 123-146. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2012.752997

  • Lykes, M. B. & Hershberg, R. (2012). Participatory Action Research and Feminisms: Social Inequalities and Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Handbook of Feminist Research II: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 331-367

  • Lykes, M.B., McDonald, E. & Boc, C. (2012). The Post-Deportation Human Rights Project: Participatory Action Research with Maya Transnational Families. Practicing Anthropology, 34(1), 22-26

  • Lykes, M. B., Hershberg, R. & Brabeck, K.M. (2011). Methodological challenges in participatory action research with undocumented Central American migrants. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 3(2), 22-35. http://jsacp.tumblr.com/

  • Brabeck, K. M., Lykes, M.B., & Hershberg, R. (2011). Framing immigration to and deportation from the United States: Guatemalan and Salvadoran families make meaning of their experiences. Community, Work and Family, 14(3), 275-296. First published on 25 March 2011. doi:10.1080/13668803.2010.520840

  • Lykes, M. B., Coquillon, E. D., & Rabenstein, K. L. (2010). Theoretical and methodological challenges in participatory community-based research. In H. Landrine & N. F. Russo (Eds.), Handbook of Diversity in Feminist Psychology. New York: Spring Publishing, pp. 55-82.

  • Brydon-Miller, M., Davids, I., Jaitli, N., Lykes, M. B., Schensul, J., & Williams, S. (2009). Popular education and action research: Voices from the field. In S. Noffke and B. Somekh (Eds.), The Handbook of Educational Action Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 387-396.

  • Lykes, M. B. & Mallona, A. (2008). Towards transformational liberation: Participatory action research and activist praxis. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Action Research II. London: SAGE Publications Ltd., pp. 260-292.

  • Lykes, M.B. & Coquillon, E. (2007). Participatory and Action Research and Feminisms: Towards Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.).Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 297-326.

  • Lykes, M. B. (2010) Silence(ing), memory(ies) and voice(s): Feminist participatory action research and photo-narratives in the wake of gross violations of human rights. Visual Studies, 25 (3), 238-254.

  • Lykes, M.B. & Coquillon, E. (2006). Participatory and Action Resea and feminisms: Towards Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.). Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thosand Oaks, CA: Sage.

  • Lykes, M.B. & Mersky, M. (2006). Reparations and mental health: Psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities. In Pablo de Greiff (Ed.). The Handbook of Reparations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Qin, D. & Lykes, M. B. (2006). Reweaving a fragmented web of self: A grounded theory of self-understanding among Chinese women students in USA. International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 19(2), 177-200.

  • McIntyre, A & Lykes, M.B. (2004). Weaving words and pictures in/through feminist participatory action research. In Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire & Alice McIntyre (Eds.). Traveling Companions: Feminisms and Participatory Action Research. pp. 82-111.

  • Williams, J.W. & Lykes, M. B. (2003). Bridging theory and practice: Using reflexive cycles in feminist PAR. Feminism and Psychology, 13(3), 287-294.

  • Lykes, M.B. (2001) Activist participatory research and the arts with rural Maya women: Interculturality and situated meaning making. In Deborah L. Tolman and Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds.), From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook of Interpretive and Participatory Methods. New York: New York University Press, pp. 183-199.

  • Lykes, M. B. (2001). Creative arts and photography in participatory action research in Guatemala. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage pp. 363-371. (PDF in Spanish available here)

  • Women of PhotoVoice/ADMI & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Voces e imágenes: Mujeres Mayas Ixiles de Chajul/Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul. Guatemala: Magna Terra. Texts in Spanish and English, with a methodology chapter by Lykes.

  • Haney, W. & Lykes, M. B. (2000). Practice, participatory research and creative research designs: The continuing evolution of ethical guidelines for research. In F. Sherman & B. Torbert (Eds.), Transforming social inquiry, transforming social action: New paradigms for crossing the theory/practice divide in universities and communities. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Lykes, M. B. (1997). Activist participatory research among the Maya of Guatemala: Constructing meanings from situated knowledge. Journal of Social Issues, 53(4), 725-746.

  • Brabeck, M. M., et al., including Lykes, M. B. (1997). Changing the culture of the university to engage in outreach scholarship. In R. M. Lerner & L. K. Simon (Eds.), Creating the new outreach university for America’s youth and families: Building university-community collaborations for the twenty-first century. New York: Garland Publishing.

  • Lykes, M. B. (1989). Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian women: Critical perspectives on constructing collaborative research. In R. Unger (Ed.), Representations: Social constructions of gender (pp. 167-185). Amityville, NY: Baywood. [Reprinted in Gergen, M., & Davis, S. (Eds.). (1996). Toward a new psychology of gender: A reader. New York: Routledge.]