TY - JOUR
T1 - Reflections on participatory research
AU - Pain, Rachel
AU - Francis, Peter
PY - 2003/3
Y1 - 2003/3
N2 - Participatory research approaches are increasingly popular with geographers in developed as well as developing countries, as critical qualitative methodologies which at their best work with participants to effect change. This paper adds to recent debates over the methodologies, practices, philosophical and political issues involved. Drawing on a project on young people, exclusion and crime victimization in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, we discuss the limitations of participatory diagramming and illustrate some of the social and political barriers to meaningful participation in, and action from, this type of research.
AB - Participatory research approaches are increasingly popular with geographers in developed as well as developing countries, as critical qualitative methodologies which at their best work with participants to effect change. This paper adds to recent debates over the methodologies, practices, philosophical and political issues involved. Drawing on a project on young people, exclusion and crime victimization in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, we discuss the limitations of participatory diagramming and illustrate some of the social and political barriers to meaningful participation in, and action from, this type of research.
KW - Crime victimization
KW - England
KW - Newcastle upon Tyne
KW - participatory diagramming
KW - participatory research
KW - young people
U2 - 10.1111/1475-4762.00109
DO - 10.1111/1475-4762.00109
M3 - Article
VL - 35
SP - 46
EP - 54
JO - Area
JF - Area
SN - 0004-0894
IS - 1
ER -