02093nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100002500060245011500085260002900200300003300229520146900262650003601731773002901767906001201796942000701808952010801815  c514064d514064201005b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPatrick, Ruth918236  aUnsettling the anti-welfare commonsense: the potential in participatory research with people living in poverty  aJournal of Social Policy  a49(2), Apr, 2020: p. 251-270  aDrawing on participatory research with people living in poverty, this article details the possibilities inherent in this research tradition and its particular applicability and as yet often unrealised potential for poverty and social security research. The dominant framing of ‘welfare’ and poverty foregrounds elite political and politicised accounts, which place emphasis on individual and behavioural drivers of poverty, and imply that the receipt of ‘welfare’ is necessarily and inevitably problematic. A large body of academic evidence counters this framing, illustrating the extent to which popular characterisations are out of step with lived realities. What is often missing, however, are the voices and expertise of those directly affected by poverty and welfare reform. This article argues that placing experts by experience on poverty at the centre of research efforts is best understood as constituting a direct challenge to the marginalising and silencing of the voices and perspectives of people living in poverty. While this hints at participatory research’s great potential, it is vital also to recognise the inherent challenges of taking a participatory approach. Significantly, though, participatory research can undermine popular characterisations of poverty and welfare and provide opportunities for alternative narratives to emerge, narratives which could contribute to the building of a pro-welfare imaginary over time. - Reproduced  aPoors, Community welfare918237  aJournal of Social Policy  aPOVERTY  cAR  00102ddc40709388081aIIPAbIIPAd2020-10-05h49(2), Apr, 2020: p. 251-270pAR123121r2020-10-05yAR