ABSTRACT
The main focus of this chapter is the relation between participation and power when co-producing knowledge in dialogic action research projects within organisations. What are the possibilities of knowledge production when action researchers aim at transcending the traditional distinction between researchers and the other as practitioners (Gunnarsson 2007, Schön 1983)? What happens when action researchers try to do research ‘with’ and not ‘on’ the other (Heron and Reason 2008), conceptualised as competent professionals within a shared research project (Bloch-Poulsen, 2010)? This chapter shows that co-producing knowledge raises practical and theoretical issues relating to power. Thus, the dual purpose of this chapter is to reflect on how to understand and how to organise participatory knowledge production, given that power is enacted in these processes.
