CARE (Center for Culture Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation) is a global hub for justice-based communication research that uses participatory and culture-centered methodologies to develop community-driven communication solutions for building and sustaining human health and wellbeing.
CORE PRINCIPLE
CARE believes that communities are their own best problem-solvers. We work closely with communities at the margins, worker-led unions, community organisations, social movements, policymakers, programme planners and evaluators in developing culturally-centered solutions. The culture-centered process catalyzes community members at the margins to create and participate in communication infrastructures, expressing their voices in building solutions to the problems they conceptualize. Past and ongoing work of CARE explores culture-centered social change in solidarity with communities experiencing deprivation, gender diverse communities, indigenous communities, racial and ethnic minority communities, religious minority communities, sex workers, domestic workers, low-wage migrant workers, workers in health threatening industries, and workers in the gig economy.
GOALS
CARE seeks to:
- Create a strategic research core for the social scientific study of international health, development, and social change communication, driven by the cultural worldviews and knowledge systems of local communities at the margins;
- Develop culture-centered preventive and structurally transformative interventions through the participation of local communities in democratic processes for imagining health and wellbeing based on their everyday lived experiences;
- Develop and sustain justice-based knowledge generating tools and resources in communities at the margins;
- Participate in solidarity with communities at the margins as they imagine community-anchored, place-based democratic processes of social change;
- Create community-academic-activist connections that sustain community-led interventions for health and wellbeing;
- Disseminate the core principles and lessons learned from the culture-centered interventions being carried out in communities at the margins across the globe;
- Build community-owned health and social change communication research capacity internationally by creating an international training hub for the next generation of health and social change communication theorists, researchers, practitioners, community organizers, advocates, activists, and policymakers.
Latest posts
- Public Talk – CARE Visiting Academic Series: The Embodied Meaning Making of Museums – Presented by Professor Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University
- CARE Director Professor Mohan Dutta in Solidarity with Iwi Chairs Forum
- CARE Special Presentation: Palestine Solidarity and Ramadan with Dr. Fatima Junaid, Tayyaba Khan and Anthony Green
- The Urgency of Addressing Palestinian Mental Health in Times of Genocide: Special Presentation
- CARE White Paper – Issue 20 – Online Warfare- Definition, Drivers, and Solutions by Anjum Rahman and Prof. Mohan Dutta.
- Hate Effects of Jai Shree Ram: Professor Dutta Explores Ayodhya Temple’s Role in Hindutva Mobilization Across India
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