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Enhancing Participatory Strategies With Designerly Ways for Sociolegal Impact: Lessons From Research Aimed at Making Hate Crime Visible

Perry-Kessaris, Amanda, Perry, Joanna (2020) Enhancing Participatory Strategies With Designerly Ways for Sociolegal Impact: Lessons From Research Aimed at Making Hate Crime Visible. Social and Legal Studies, 29 (6). pp. 835-857. ISSN 0964-6639. (doi:doi.org/10.1177/0964663920949736) (KAR id:77593)

Abstract

This paper draws the attention of impact-curious sociolegal researchers to the potential of participatory research strategies; and proposes that the effectiveness of those strategies can be enhanced by the introduction of ‘designerly ways’. It explores and evidences this proposition through the multi-country Facing All the Facts project which aimed to support and accelerate the process of making hate crime conceptually and empirically visible in Europe. The paper concludes that by pursuing the designerly strategy of making experiences, perceptions and expectations around hate crime reporting and recording visible and tangible in artefacts (formal graphics and collaborative prototypes), the project activities generated structured-yet-free spaces in which publics/stakeholders could more effectively participate in practical, critical and imaginative discussion about how things are, and how they might be; and that this has improved the relevance and rigour of the research, and its ability to generate meaningful change (‘impact’).

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: doi.org/10.1177/0964663920949736
Uncontrolled keywords: Hate crime, participatory research, participatory design, legal design, design research, impact, socio-legal research methods, Facing All the Facts project
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Sian Robertson
Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2019 14:45 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 12:42 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/77593 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Perry-Kessaris, Amanda.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1341-2392
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