ABSTRACT
This chapter grows out of a practical interest in the relationship between action research, change and empowerment on the one hand, and a theoretical interest in postmodernism on the other. To some degree it represents a personal strugglepossibly shared by many others. As researchers who have engaged in modernist action research and research projects which draw upon postmodern perspectives
and concepts, we are conscious of the need to reflect upon the veiled and subtle ways in which ‘modernist’ thinking (of the kind underpinning emancipatory action research) manages to influence our current attempts to research in the ‘postmodern’.
