ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Watkins draws on the chapters in this book in an effort to help clarify how social science research can be a potential mode of liberatory accompaniment, the practices and ethics that are essential to such research, and the pedagogical approaches to aid researchers to become ecopsychosocial accompaniers. When a person or team with research skills has made a commitment to a community and their emancipatory aims, the stage is set to see if the members want to partner to help achieve some of the community’s desired ends through research. Such accompaniment strives for horizontality and mutuality, including learning by all participants. Research as a mode of accompaniment has the potential to contribute to liberatory ends and to strengthen solidarity in the service of shared emancipatory values and commitments.
