ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the specific ways in which participatory action research and actor network theory is integrated into the process that supports the theoretical needs of the project and how this combination results in the development and definition of the concept of participatory networks. The theoretical frameworks that form the foundation of this research encompass the fields of communication, science and technology studies, education, critical geography, political science, and political economy. The central theoretical aim of the project is to make the diverse theories from these various fields connect with Freire’s notion of “critical consciousness” or conscientizacao, which through the The BGreen Project participatory network will re-define the relationship between youth and multi-institutions in imagining and forging a different educational-environmental future for the US and Bangladesh. The dependency paradigm was a raging reaction from the so-called “periphery”–the poor, the despondent and the so-called underdeveloped and passive global south.
