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Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation and Place
Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences. PAR involves collaborative research, education and…
Place, social relations and the fear of crime: a review
- R. Pain
- Sociology
- 1 September 2000
This article reviews the literature on fear of crime of interest to the geographical and environmental disciplines. After discussing definitional and methodological issues, the article focuses on…
Social geography: participatory research
- R. Pain
- Geography
- 1 October 2004
This second of three reviews of action-orientated research in social geography focuses on one area of this work which is thriving. Moving, like many good ideas, from the field conventionally viewed…
Globalized fear? Towards an emotional geopolitics
- R. Pain
- Sociology
- 21 May 2009
This paper questions the recent recasting of fear within critical geopolitics. It identifies a widespread metanarrative, `globalized fear', analysis of which lacks grounding and is remote,…
Contact Zones: Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction
Recent debates around urban encounter, integration cosmopolitanism, and renewed engagement with contact theory have raised questions about the spaces of interaction that may enable meaningful…
Space, sexual violence and social control: integrating geographical and feminist analyses of women's fear of crime
- R. Pain
- Sociology
- 1 December 1991
Geographies of age: thinking relationally
- Peter Hopkins, R. Pain
- Geography
- 1 September 2007
In contrast to recent treatment of other social identities, geographers' work on age still focuses disproportionately on the social-chronological margins -- the very young and (to a far lesser…
Reflections on participatory research
- R. Pain, P. Francis
- Sociology
- 1 March 2003
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…
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