Mike Kesby

TL;DR: Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences as mentioned in this paper, and a critical introduction to understanding and working with PAR in different social, spatial and institutional contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a travers une etude sur les effets du programme de prevention des comportements face au VIH/SIDA Stepping Stones, dans le Zimbabwe rural, l'A analyse les les interactions and la capacite d'agir ( empowerment) des populations cibleees par la recherche-action.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the contribution that geographers can make to debates about the nature and utility of participatory approaches and argue for a constructive reconciliation between these approaches and the growing poststructural critique of participation through an examination of the similarities and entanglements between power and empowerment.

TL;DR: In the context of a pilot study on the role that gender relations play in the transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe, the authors explores participatory diagramming, an exciting qualitative research technique largely under-utilized by geographers.

TL;DR: Participatory Action Research (PAR) has been defined as a collaborative process of research, education and action explicitly oriented towards social transformation (McTaggart 1997) as mentioned in this paper, which represents a major epistemological challenge to mainstream research traditions in the social and environmental sciences.