This article presents a number of contributions from an e-forum debate on issues of engagement with the policy process in Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes which grew out of a citizen jury and scenario workshop in southern India.
This paper discusses the concept of participation or co-operative inquiry. It describes the politics of participation, the participative political economy of the late twentieth century, and the epistemology, ecology, and spirit of participation
This chapter deals with three approaches to research, co-operative inquiry, participatory action research and action inquiry. Each approach is taken separately and the underlying assumptions and practice is set out. The text recognises that these are three separate traditions and then explores some of the similarities and differences among the three approaches, making critical comparisons. The author "attempts to show how the three approaches complement each other, so that together they stand as the begining of a robust paradigm of research with people".