Researching with communities presents a range of personal and grounded perspectives from academics, researchers and practitioners on undertaking research in ways that promote and privilege the voice of the community, is respectful of local or indigenous practices and is culturally safe. Most definitely not a 'tick list' for approaching community-inclusive research, this book provides grounded exemplars, guides and discussion about the experiences of doing research respectfully and inclusively. It does this by drawing on the perspectives of researchers and community practitioners and by...

We have a problem, too many of us feel that democracy is broken. We distrust politicians, despair at the rise of bureaucracy and feel ignored when it comes to the decisions that affect our lives. Our democracies have become arrogant and controlling. It's time to take democracy on a journey towards a new world of intimacy and co-creation. To go from outmoded ways of decision making to ones that support dynamic, organic and pro-social ways of connecting, conversing and deciding. We need to create networked, active democracies and this book is about how we make that happen.