Volume 1
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction: Navigating the complex and dynamic landscape of participatory research and inquiry
Sonia M. Ospina, Danny Burns, & Jo Howard
Chapter 2: Challenges in the practice of participatory research and inquiry
Danny Burns, Jo Howard, & Sonia M. Ospina
Part 2: Key Influences and Foundations of Participatory Research
Chapter 3: Key Influences and Foundations of Participatory Research
Sonia M. Ospina
Chapter 4: Paulo Freire’s Influence on Participatory Action Research
Fabio C. Campos & Gary L. Anderson
Chapter 5: Tropical Empathy: Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research
Alex Pereira & Joanne Rappaport
Chapter 6: Theatre is Knowledge: Augusto Boal’s theatre of the oppressed and participatory research
Effie Makepeace
Chapter 7: Pragmatism: Linking systems, evolution, and democratization in participatory and action research
Davydd J. Greenwood
Chapter 8: Feminism and participatory research: Exploring intersectionality, relationships, and voice in participatory research from a feminist perspective
Batsheva Guy & Brittany Arthur
Chapter 9: Indigenous ways of knowing and participatory research
Fiona Cram & Anna Adcock
Chapter 10: The history, legacy and future of participatory rural appraisal
Mariah Cannon, Tessa Lewin, & Robert Chambers
Chapter 11: Achieving scope and broad participation in participatory research: The ‘dialogue democratic’ network-based approach of Björn Gustavsen
Erik Lindhult
Chapter 12: Becoming participatory: Some contributions to action research in the UK
Cathy Sharp & Ruth Balogh
Chapter 13: Towards ever more extended epistemologies: Pluriversality and decolonisation of knowledges in participatory inquiry
Patricia Carolina Gayá
Chapter 14: Action research – participative self in transformative action
Hilary Bradbury
Part 3: Critical Issues in the Practice of Participatory Research
Chapter 15: Critical Issues in the practice of participatory research
Jo Howard & Danny Burns
Chapter 16: Facilitating participatory research
Bob Dick
Chapter 17: Reflexivity and reflection in action research: ‘To locate, again, a through line to the future
Patta Scott-Villiers
Chapter 18: Positionality, academic research and cooperative inquiry: Lessons from participatory research with Roma
Jekatyerina Dunajeva & Violeta Vajda
Chapter 19: The fine art of getting lost: Ethics as a guide to transformative learning in participatory research
Mary Brydon-Miller, Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, & Victor J. Freidman
Chapter 20: Holding space for emotions in participatory action research: Reflections from the experiences of a youth organisation exploring PAR through creative practices
Liv Kaya Aabye, Gioel Gioacchino, & Fiammetta Wegner
Chapter 21: Power analysis for social change: Participatory learning and action
Jethro Pettit
Chapter 22: The ethics of co-production in practice: Reflections
Helen Thomas-Hughes & Morag McDermont
Chapter 23: Approaches and creative research methods with children and youth
Vicky Johnson & Andy West
Chapter 24: Don’t leave us out: Disability inclusive participatory research – why and how?
Mary Wickenden & Erika Lopez Franco
Chapter 25: Interpeace’s experience with participatory action research in contexts of active and post-conflict
Daniel Hyslop
Part 4: Methods and Tools
Part 4.1: Dialogic and Deliberative Processes
Chapter 26: Reflections on the Role of Dialogue in Participatory Research and Inquiry
Mariana de Santibañes & Sonia M. Ospina
Chapter 27: Reflections on the reflect approach and its multiple evolutions
David Archer
Chapter 28: A dialogical approach to knowledge: Grassroots experiences from the south of Mexico
Gustavo Esteva
Chapter 29: Feeling-body-thinking approach and methodologies: Towards transformations in intercultural justice
Juan Carlos Giles M.
Chapter 30: Art of Hosting frameworks and methods as participatory research
Jodi R. Sandfort & Trupti Sarode
Chapter 31: Cooperative inquiry as dialogic process
Jo Howard, Sonia M. Ospina, & Lyle Yorks
Chapter 32: Creating spaces for participatory social learning and change with young people
Barry Percy-Smith
Chapter 33: Influencing global policy processes through participatory approaches
Erika Lopez Franco & Matt Davies
Part 4.2: Digital Technologies in Participatory Research
Chapter 34: Digital affordances for participation and the participation-cube
Tony Roberts
Chapter 35: Technologies for citizen inquiry: Participatory research in online communities
Maria Aristeidou, Eileen Scanlon, & Mike Sharples
Chapter 36: Interactive radio as a participatory digital research method
Anna Colom
Chapter 37: Writing women into Wikipedia
Japleen Pasricha & Annette JE Fisher
Chapter 38: Real-time statistics: Working towards community participation with mobile data collection in Oxfam
Simone Lombardini & Emily Tomkys Valteri
Chapter 39: Participatory digital mapping as a research method
Jon Corbett, Logan Cochrane, & Yasmine Zeid
Volume 2
Part 4.3: Participatory Forms of Action Orientated Research
Chapter 40: Show me the action! Understanding action as a way of knowing in participatory research
Alfredo Ortiz Aragón & Mary Brydon-Miller
Chapter 41: Tools for action: Media research as collaborative action research
Bo Reimer
Chapter 42: Memorialab: Dialogue, memory and social healing in Basque Country
Iñigo Retolaza Eguren
Chapter 43: A participatory self-in-field inquiry method
Hanna Kurland, Victor J. Friedman, Israel Sykes, Ruth Danino Lichtenstein, & Tilda Melamed
Chapter 44: The “action” turn: People’s Praxis
Nathalis Wamba
Chapter 45: Awareness-based action research: Making systems sense and see themselves
Otto Scharmer, Eva Pomeroy, & Katrin Kaufer
Chapter 46: Storytelling as participatory research
Joanna Wheeler & Felix Bivens
Chapter 47: Community based participatory research: Embracing Praxis for transformation
Nina Wallerstein, Lorenda Belone, Ellen Burgess, Elizabeth Dickson, Lisa Gibbs, Laura Chanchien Parajon, Margareta Ramgard, Payam Sheikhattari, & Gillian Silver
Chapter 48: Research, organizing and policy change: Methods and lessons on the path from participatory action research to a right to counsel in New York City
Alexa Kasdan
Chapter 49: The role of collective analysis in generating ownership and action in Systemic Action Research
Danny Burns
Part 4.4: Visual and Performative Methods
Chapter 50: Collective becoming: Visual and performative methodologies for participatory research
Tessa Lewin & Jackie Shaw
Chapter 51: Arpilleras as participatory research
Sara Kindon, Katia Guiloff, Ximena Riquelme, Fernanda Piraud, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha, Carla Batista, Katia Cisternas, Maribel Marquez-Satyanand, Nadia Batista, Maria-Fernanda Bernal, & Ines Marquez, with Marlena Angermann
Chapter 52: Digital story telling and researching women’s empowerment in Bangladesh
Samia Afroz Rahim, Sahida Khondaker, & Maheen Sultan
Chapter 53: Photovoice
Cathy Vaughan & Sarah Khaw
Chapter 54: Asset mapping as a participatory research approach
Elizabeth Lightfoot, Jennifer Blevins, & Amano Dube
Chapter 55: Theatre for development as a participatory research tool
Oga Steve Abah
Chapter 56: The Method of Enactment and the framework of Design: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Participatory Research
Catalina Alzate
Chapter 57: Extended participatory video processes
Jackie Shaw
Part 4.5: Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Chapter 58: Participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning: Taking stock and breaking new ground
Marina Apgar & Will Allen
Chapter 59: Promoting adaptive programming through outcome mapping – The ‘Resilient Adolescents in the Syria Crisis’ programme (SAP)
Jan Van Ongevalle, Ana Kvintradze, David Miller, Gaël Rennesson, & Jeanette Lundberg
Chapter 60: The Most Significant Change Technique (MSC): A case study of how MSC helps communities unpack intangible outcomes
Jess Dart, Sophie Pinwill, & Avega Bishop
Chapter 61: Participatory Theory of Change: Reflecting on multiple views of how change happens
Marina Apgar & Boru Douthwaite
Chapter 62: Can voices at scale really be heard? Reflections from ten years of innovation with SenseMaker
Steff Deprez & Irene Guijt
Chapter 63: Ripple Effects Mapping: A participatory strategy for measuring program impacts
Rebecca Sero, Debra Hansen, Scott Chazdon, Laura Bohen, Lorie Higgins & Mary Emery
Chapter 64: Reality Check Approach and Immersion Research
Dee Jupp
Part 4.6: Mixing and Mashing Participatory and Formal Research
Chapter 65: Mixing and mashing participatory and formal research methods
Pauline Oosterhoff
Chapter 66: Mixed participatory and formal methods in studying violence towards men who have sex with men in Viet Nam
Tu-Anh Hoang
Chapter 67: Transitional ethnic female bodies and kaleidoscopic methodologies: Participatory research, feminist geographies and multi-sited ethnography
Angela Santamaria
Chapter 68: Participatory research in healthcare
Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Tomas de Brún, & Mary O’Reilly-de Brún
Chapter 69: Building in complementarity: Participatory mixed methods in research, monitoring and learning in modern slavery in India
Sowmyaa Bharadwaj, Stanley Joseph, Anusha Chandrasekharan, & Pradeep Narayanan
Chapter 70: Participatory network research: Using visual methods and participatory statistics for value chain analysis
Christian Stein & Lena J. Jaspersen
Part 5: Final Reflections
Chapter 71: Participatory research and the need for transformations in a world in crisis
Jo Howard, Sonia M. Ospina, & Danny Burns
