Park Extension is a dense, culturally diverse area that is home to some 33K Montreal residents.
The members of this networks are researchers who have committed to approach their work in Park-Extension by applying community-based action research (CBAR) principles.
Community-based action research (CBAR) commits to equity, social justice and resident engagement through all aspect of the research work carried out.
The first edition of this new community journal involved the participation of Sasha Dyck, Emanuel Guay and other members of the CBAR Network.
Two sessions that presented during this conference held at McGill University considered the Park-Extension context or included members of the CBAR Network: Thursday June 27: panel titled City-based Research: How can Research Meaningfully Contribute to Community? Moderator: Jayne Malenfant. Guests: Mitch McLarnon, Alex Megelas, Maxim Goulet-Langlois and Naomi Nichols. Friday June 28: panel on community-based research moderated by Naomi Nichols and Alex Megelas, Guests: Rose-Anne St. Paul (Brique par Brique), Michelle Duchesneau (Press Start), Andrea Clarke (Head & Hands), Pascual Delgado (ACCESSS), and Will Beauchemin and Bianca Laliberté from Exeko.
Emanuel Guay, Samiha Hossain and Alex Megelas were included on a panel at the 2019 Planners’ Network Conference. The panel was titled: Beyond and against the ivory tower: community-based action research and the struggle against gentrification and displacement in Park Extension.
This collective text was written by Emanuel Guay, Jenny Cartwright, Shazma Abdulla, Vijay Kolinjivadi, Alessandra Renzi, Karine Saboui, Aaron Vansintjan and Tamara Vukov, and looks at the impact of Quebec’s moving season on the Park-Extension neighborhood.
This reaction to the Festival once again taking place on the Campus MIL site was written by Aaron Vansintjan, Bengi Akbulut, Vijay Kolinjivadi, Alex Megelas and Céline Jacob. It calls for the Festival to acknowledge its unanticipated impact in perpetuating the gentrification of Park-Extension, and to adopt a number of strategies to mitigate its impact. The reaction was circulated broadly using social media channels. Members of the CBAR Network assisted in a mediated conversation between Festival organizers and the CAPE.
This institutional ethnography by Alexa-Savan Ahooja (Educational Studies PhD Student, McGill University) considers linguistic practices of families using the public library located at the William Hingston Center and interprets these practices in relation to the context in which they are taking place.