Introducing Community Engagement through Hospitality

The objective of this thought piece is to explore Nouwen’s notion of hospitality as a means of introducing participatory research, in particular community-based participatory research, to academics who may be interested in community engagement but have little or no experience in recent scholarly developments in the field. This includes knowledge democracy, social and epistemic injustice, and epistemic agency. The approach is not intended to replace well-established orientation processes but to engender interest in further orientation in participatory research.