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Davydd James Greenwood

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

  • Action Research
  • Political Economy
  • Ethnic Conflict
  • Community and Regional Development
  • Anthropological Study of Contemporary Universities

Research Grants

  • NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS
  • FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS (FLAS)

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • Book:
    • 2006      with Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change, Second edition revised. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, Inc.
    • 1999      Editor, Action Research: From Research to Writing in the Scandinavian Action Research Program, Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
    • 1998      Hondarribia: Riqueza ingrata: Comercialización y colapso de la agricultura. (traducción de María Belmonte Barrenetxea). Donostia, Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco. (translation of Unrewarding Wealth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1976.)
    • 1998      Co-editor with Carol J. Greenhouse, Honorio Velasco M., Jesús Prieto de Pedro, La democracia y la diferencia: Cultura, poder y representación en los Estados Unidos y en España. Madrid, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
    • 1998      with Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, Inc.
    • 1992     Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research in the Fagor Cooperative Group of Mondragón, co-author, José Luis González (with Julio Cantón Alonso, Ino Galparsoro Markaide, Alex Goiricelaya Arruza, Isabel Legarreta Nuin, and Kepa Salaberría Amesti), Assen-Maastricht, Van Gorcum Publishers.
    • 1990     Culturas de Fagor: Estudio antropológico de las cooperativas de Mondragón, co-author José Luis González (with Julio Cantón Alonso, Ino Galparsoro Markaide, Alex Goiricelaya Arruza, Isabel Legarreta Nuin, and Kepa Salaberría Amesti). San Sebastian, Editorial Txertoa.
    • 1985     The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
    • 1977     Nature, Culture, and Human History: A Bio-cultural Introduction to Anthropology, coauthored with William A. Stini, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers.
    • 1976     Unrewarding Wealth: Commercialization and the Collapse of Agriculture in a Spanish Basque Town, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Edited Collections:
    • 2006     With Mary Brydon-Miller and Olav Eikeland, Ethics and Action Research, special issue of Journal of Action Research, 4, 1.
    • 2006     Roundtable on Social Capital, Theme issue, Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, 17, no. 4, October-December.
    • Articles:
    • 2007     Who Are the Real “Problem Owners”? On the Social Embeddedness of Universities, Harding, A., Scott, A., Laske, S. and Burtscher, C. eds.  Bright Satanic Mills: Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy. Aldershot, Ashgate, pp. 95-117.
    • 2006     With Mary Brydon-Miller and Carla Shafer, Intellectual Property and Action Research, in Journal of Action Research, 4, 1, 81-95
    • 2006      With Mary Brydon-Miller, A Re-examination of the Relationship between Action Research and Human Subjects Review Processes, in Journal of Action Research, 4, 1, 117-128.
    • 2005     With Morten Levin, Reform of the Social Sciences, and of Universities Through Action Research, Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd edition. Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, eds., Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 43-64.
    • 2004     Action Research: Collegial Responses Fulfilled, Concepts and Transformation, Vol. 9, No. 1: 80- 93.
    • 2004      Feminism and Action Research: Is “Resistance” Possible and, If So, Why is it Necessary? in Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire, and Alice McIntyre, eds., Traveling Companions: Feminism, Teaching, and Action Research. Westport, Praeger
    • 2004      With Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Melissa Grace Byrnes, Jamecia Lynn Finne, Evaluation Model for an Undergraduate Action Research Program, in Budd Hall, ed., Learning and the World We Want, Proceedings of the conference “Intersecting Conversations on Education, Culture, and Community, University of Victoria, pp. 152-159.
    • 2003     Co-author with Kai A. Schafft, Promises and Dilemmas of Participation: Action Research, Search Conference Methodology, and Community Development, Journal of the Community Development Society, 34, No. 1: 18-35.
    • 2003      Why Action Research? With Mary Brydon Miller and Patricia Maguire, Journal of Action Research, Vol. 1, No. 1: 9-28.
    • 2002     Action research: Unfulfilled promises and unmet challenges, Concepts and Transformation 7.2:117–139.
    • 2001     with Morten Levin, Pragmatic Action Research and the Struggle to Transform Universities into Learning Communities, in Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury, eds. Handbook of Action Research, London, Sage Publications, pp. 103-113.
    • 2001      with Morten Levin, Re-Organizing Universities and "Knowing How": University Restructuring and Knowledge Creation for the Twenty-first Century in Organization 8, No.2: 433-440.
    • 2000     with Morten Levin, Reconstructing the Relationships between Universities and Society through Action Research, in Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, eds. Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed., Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc., pp. 85-106.
    • 1999     The Inhumanities and Inaction Research in Anthropology, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Anthropology Newsletter, Volume 40, Number 4, April, p. 56.
    • 1999      Theory-practice Relations in Anthropology: A Commentary and Further Provocation, in Carole E. Hill and Marietta L. Baba, Eds., The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology: Rebuilding a Fractured Synthesis, NAPA Bulletin number 18, Washington, D.C.
    • 1998     with Morten Levin, Action Research, Science, and the Co-optation of Social Research, Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies. Vol 4, No. 2, summer, 1998, pp. 237-261.
    • 1998      with Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications.
    • 1998      with Morten Levin, The Reconstruction of Universities: Seeking a Different Integration into Knowledge Development Processes, in Concepts and Transformation 2, No. 2: 145-163.
    • 1997     co-author with Johan Elvemo, Ann Martin, Lisa Grant Mathews, Aleeza Strubel, Laurine Thomas, Participation, Action, and Research in the Classroom, Studies in Continuing Education 19, No. 1:1-50.
    • 1991     Collective Reflective Practice through Participatory Action Research: A Case Study from the Fagor Cooperatives of Mondragón, in Donald A. Schön, ed., The Reflective Turn: Case Studies in and on Educational Practice, New York, Teacher's College Press, pp. 84-107.
    • 1991      Participatory Action Research: Through Practice to Science in Social Research, with William Foote Whyte and Peter Lazes, reprinted in William Foote Whyte, ed., Participatory Action Research, Newbury Park, Sage Publications, pp. 19-55.
    • 1989     Participatory Action Research: Through Practice to Science in Social Research, with William Foote Whyte and Peter Lazes, American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 32, Number 5: 513-552.