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September 16, 2025TRaNS Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia

Producing New Knowledge to Empower a Community: Treading a Fine Line Between Scholar-Activism and Community Intervention

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SRSerina Rahman

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Overview

Autoethnographic reflection on facilitating community intervention through traditional ecological knowledge and citizen science.

Key Points

  • Scholar-activism can empower communities facing climate change and habitat destruction.
  • An autoethnographic approach reflects on 17 years of involvement in a rural fishing village.
  • The journey highlighted both failures in youth engagement and unexpected success among local fishermen.
  • Engaging with entrenched power structures raises questions about the effectiveness and feasibility of the approach.

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Serina Rahman (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4565b31b076d99fa5b2d5https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2025.10004
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