Over the rainbow

The politics of researching citizenship and marginality

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ID6134538
AuthorsLyla Mehta (0000-0001-5327-2964, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK,, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume6
Issue2
Pages233-253
Publication date2008-05-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAction Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1476750307087054
OpenAlexW2161303024
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

This article deals with different methodological enquiries in researching citizenship and marginality in a developing context. It is based on reflections emerging from a five-year collaborative international research programme that focused on enhancing the efforts of the poor and marginalized groups to define and claim their rights and make citizenship matter. The article deals with the politics and dilemmas inherent in the different methodological stances and positions of action research and other sister approaches towards the question of citizenship. Reflections from the researchers are interspersed with theoretical issues to highlight the messiness of the research process. The article argues for the need to challenge dominant framings in development, to be more modest about and redefine what we mean by policy influence and research impacts, to be more process-oriented and reflexive and to engage more strongly in a pedagogy of the powerful

Action (physics · Action research · Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Law · Parental Involvement in Education

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