ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I document how I used critical methods at various stages of the research process with my community partner the National Women in Agriculture Association, an international, Black women-led farming advocacy collective based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To guide my analysis, I apply four conceptual anchors of the culture-centered approach (i.e., participation, communication infrastructures, partnerships, and reflexivity) to highlight the organization’s multi-level advocacy and communication strategies and reflexively identify power imbalances and political tensions that emerged in our academic-community partnership. The findings from this chapter contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship documenting the applicability of the critical paradigm to strengthen community partnerships and develop more effective health communication intervention models.
