This book explores what is at stake methodologically for researchers seeking to expand opportunities for people to become visible upon the public stages of debate, decision making and action, making audible their experiences of wrongs and injustices.

John F. Schostak is Research Professor of Education at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Jill Schostak is Visiting Fellow at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, and most recently has undertaken contract research with the College of Emergency Medicine.

@contents: Selected Contents: Introduction Part A: Design, Values, Violence and Rights 1. Values, Violence, Rights Part B: Research Accounts Introduction to Part B 2. Rethinking justice in education and training 3. Between justice and pathologisation: juxtapositions of epistemic and material violence in transnational research around migration and domestic violence. METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSION SECTION i: on values, justice, knowledge .and identity 4. The scarf unveiled: proximity to the test of law in a French school 5. Social Research and 'Race': Developing a critical paradigm 6. Violence, Social Exclusion and Construction of Identities in Early Childhood Education Concepción Sánchez Blanco METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSION SECTION ii: resisting identities and boundaries 7. The construction of Violence/non-violence by schools and the media 8. Charlie Why Ya Hideing: The Role of Myth and Emotions in the Lives of Young People Living in a High Crime Area 9. Passionate Places and Fragmented Spaces 10. The Return of the Repressed METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSION SECTION iii: places, visible, invisible and their 'dis/contents' 11. Discursive and Material forms of Violence in the US in a post 9/11 Era 12. Militarizing Higher Education: Resisting the Pedagogy of Violence METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSION SECTION iv: The language of critical resistance, emancipatory practices and the construction of the conditions for action and the containment of change Part C: Framing the Design and Writing Up 14. Writing for Emancipatory Research Conclusion