ABSTRACT
This chapter examines multiple conceptions of participatory practice, how these interpretations are actualised by researchers in the field and the need to explore issues of power and positionality beyond the boundaries of the researcher/participant relationship. Visual and creative methods are often presented as a panacea for resolving issues of power and positionality and it is important to understand how this relationship has been established. The visual has also been a tool to speak out in the unsettled political geography of the United Kingdom, where Welsh, Scottish and Irish nationalists have challenged their enrolment into political union as a form of forcible integration. The chapter explores processes at the macro level through a consideration of the invisibility of marginalised groups including those living under the conditions of oppressive governance, poverty, gendered power relations and ideas of what children are and should be.
