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Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods ParticipatoryActionResearch(PAR)approachesandmethodshaveseenanexplo- sion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborativeresearch,educationandactionorientedtowardssocialchange,repre- sentingamajorepistemologicalchallengetomainstreamresearchtraditions.Ithas recently been the subject of heated critique and debate, and rapid theoretical and methodologicaldevelopment. Thisbookcapturesthesedevelopments,exploringthejustification,theorisation, practiceandimplicationsofPAR.Itoffersacriticalintroductiontounderstanding and working with PAR in different social, spatial and institutional contexts. The authorsengagewithPAR’sradicalpotential,whilemaintainingacriticalawareness ofitschallengesanddangers.PartIexplorestheintellectual,ethicalandpragmatic contexts of PAR; the development and diversity of approaches to PAR; recent poststructuralistperspectivesonPARasaformofpower;theethicsofparticipation; andissuesofsafetyandwell-being.PartIIisacriticalexplorationofthepolitics, places and practices of PAR, exploring methods including diagramming, carto- graphies,art,theatre,photovoice,videoandgeographicalinformationsystemsare alsodiscussed.PartIIIreflectsonhoweffectivePARis,includingtheanalysisofits products and processes, participatory learning, representation and dissemination, institutional benefits and challenges, and working between research, action, activismandchange. Theauthorsfindthataspatialperspectiveandanattentiontoscaleofferhelpful meansofnegotiatingthepotentialsandparadoxesofPAR.Thebookaddssignifi- cantweighttotherecentcriticalreappraisalofPAR,suggestingwhy,when,where and how we might take forward PAR’s commitment to enabling collaborative socialtransformation.Itwillbeparticularlyusefultoresearchersandstudentsof Human Geography, Development Studies and Sociology. SaraKindonisaSeniorLecturerinHumanGeographyandDevelopmentStudies atVictoriaUniversityofWellington,AotearoaNewZealand. RachelPainisasocialgeographeratDurhamUniversityintheUK. MikeKesbyisaLecturerinHumanGeographyattheUniversityofStAndrews, Scotland,UK. Routledge Studies in Human Geography This series provides a forum for innovative, vibrant, and critical debate within HumanGeography.Titleswillreflectthewealthofresearchwhichistakingplace in this diverse and ever-expanding field. Contributions will be drawn from the mainsub-disciplinesandfrominnovativeareasofworkwhichhavenoparticular sub-disciplinary allegiances. Published: 1. A Geography of Islands 7. Rural Poverty Small island insularity Marginalisation and exclusion in Stephen A. Royle Britain and the United States Paul Milbourne 2. Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside 8. Poverty and the Third Way Rights, culture, land and the Colin C. Williams and environment Jan Windebank Gavin Parker 9. Ageing and Place 3. The Differentiated Countryside Edited by Gavin J. Andrews and Jonathan Murdoch, Philip Lowe, David R. Phillips Neil Ward and Terry Marsden 10. Geographies of Commodity 4. The Human Geography of East Chains Central Europe Edited by Alex Hughes and David Turnock Suzanne Reimer 5. Imagined Regional Communities 11. Queering Tourism Integration and sovereignty in the Paradoxical performances at gay Global South pride parades James D Sidaway Lynda T. Johnston 6. Mapping Modernities 12. Cross-Continental Food Chains Geographies of Central and Edited by Niels Fold and Eastern Europe 1920–2000 Bill Pritchard Alan Dingsdale 13. Private Cities 21. China on the Move Edited by Georg Glasze, Chris Migration, the state, and the Webster and Klaus Frantz household C. Cindy Fan 14. Global Geographies of Post Socialist Transition 22. Participatory Action Research Tassilo Herrschel Approaches and Methods Connecting people, participation 15. Urban Development in Post- and place Reform China Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu and Mike Kesby Anthony Gar-On Yeh Not yet published: 16. Rural Governance International perspectives 23. Time Space Compression Edited by Lynda Cheshire, Historical geographies Vaughan Higgins and Barney Warf Geoffrey Lawrence 24. International Migration and 17. Global Perspectives on Rural Knowledge Childhood and Youth Allan Williams and Vladimir Balaz Young rural lives Edited by Ruth Panelli, Samantha 25. Design Economies and the Punch, and Elsbeth Robson Changing World Economy Innovation, production and 18. World City Syndrome competitiveness Neoliberalism and inequality in John Bryson and Grete Rustin Cape Town David A. McDonald 26. Whose Urban Renaissance? An international comparison of 19. Exploring Post Development urban regeneration policies Aram Ziai Libby Porter and Katie Shaw 20. Family Farms 27. Tourism Geography Harold Brookfield and A new synthesis, second edition Helen Parsons Stephen Williams Frontispiece I am here. Self Portrait is about who you are. Who you are is what you believeyouare.It’sme,GabyKitoko.I’mherereadytoact.Neverdoubt– wecanmakeadifferencetogether(Credit:GabyKitokoforMedia19/Self Portrait Refugee). Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods Connecting people, participation and place Edited by Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2007 Editorial selection and matter, Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby; individual chapters, the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Participatory action research approaches and methods : connecting people, participation, and place / [edited] by Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Social participation—Research—Methodology. 2. Political participation—Research—Methodology. 3. Communities—Research— Methodology. I. Kindon, Sara Louise. II. Pain, Rachel. III. Kesby, Mike, 1966– HM711.P37 2007 302'.1401—dc22 2007024739 ISBN 0-203-93367-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-40550-5 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-93367-2 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-40550-8 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-93367-1 (ebk) We dedicate this book to Janet Townsend to honour her work in pioneeringfeminist andparticipatoryapproachesinGeography, andtoacknowledgetheprofoundimpactsofhercriticalintellect andgentlemanneronourownthinkingandpractice. Contents Listofboxes xiii Listoffigures xv Listofplates xvi Notesoncontributors xvii Foreword xxiii Acknowledgements xxv 1 Introduction:connectingpeople,participationandplace 1 SARAKINDON,RACHELPAINANDMIKEKESBY PART I Reflection 7 2 ParticipatoryActionResearch:origins,approachesandmethods 9 SARAKINDON,RACHELPAINANDMIKEKESBY 3 Participation as a form of power: retheorising empowerment and spatialisingParticipatoryActionResearch 19 MIKEKESBY,SARAKINDONANDRACHELPAIN 4 Participatory Action Research: making a difference to theory, practiceandaction 26 RACHELPAIN,SARAKINDONANDMIKEKESBY 5 Towardaparticipatoryethics 33 LYNNEC.MANZOANDNATHANBRIGHTBILL 6 ParticipatoryActionResearchandresearchersafety 41 MAGSADAMSANDGEMMAMOORE
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