Participatory action research approaches and methods : connecting people, participation and place / edited by Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.

1. Introduction: Connecting People, Participation and Place -- Part 1. Reflection -- 2. Participatory Action Research: Origins, Approaches and Methods -- 3. Participation as a Form of Power: Retheorising Empowerment and Spatialising Participatory Action Research -- 4. Participatory Action Research: Making a Difference to Theory, Practice and Action -- 5. Toward a Participatory Ethics -- 6. Participatory Action Research and Researcher Safety -- Part 2. Action -- 7. Environment and Development: (Re)Connecting Community and Commons in New England Fisheries, USA -- 8. Working Towards and beyond Collaborative Resource Management: Parks, People and Participation in the Peruvian Amazon -- 9. Researching Sexual Health: Two Participatory Action Research Projects in Zimbabwe -- 10. Gender and Employment: Participatory Social Auditing in Kenya -- 11. Inclusive Methodologies: Including Disabled People in Participatory Action Research in Scotland and Canada -- 12. Working with Migrant Communities: Collaborating with the Kalayaan Centre in Vancouver, Canada -- 13. Peer Research with Youth: Negotiating (Sub)Cultural Capital, Place and Participation in Aotearoa /New Zealand -- 14. Participatory Diagramming: A Critical View from North East England -- 15. Participatory Cartographies: Reflections from Research Performances in Fiji and Tanzania -- 16. Participatory Art: Capturing Spatial Vocabularies in a Collaborative Visual Methodology -- 17. Participatory Theatre: 'Creating a Source for Staging an Example' in the USA -- 18. Photovoice: Insights into Marginalisation through a 'Community Lens' in Saskatchewan, Canada -- 19. Uniting People with Place Using Participatory Video in Aotearoa /New Zealand: A Ngati Hauiti Journey -- 20. Participatory GIS: The Humboldt /West Humboldt Park Community GIS Project, Chicago, USA -- Part 3. Reflection -- 21. Participatory Data Analysis -- 22. Participatory Learning: Opportunities and Challenges -- 23. Beyond the Journal Article: Representations, Audience and the Presentation of Participatory Action Research -- 24. Linking Participatory Research to Action: Institutional Challenges -- 25. Relating Action to Activism: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections -- Conclusion -- 26. Conclusion: The Space(s) and Scale(s) of Participatory Action Research: Constructing Empowering Geographies?.

This book examines the justification, theorisation, practice and implications of participatory action research approaches and methods in the social and environmental sciences.

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