Participatory research in and against time

The staccato rhythms of experiential time remain obscured in much the literature on participatory research, where is treated as a reassuring constant – backdrop for human activity. This article addresses discordances between lived temporalities and existing theorisations methodologies. It takes research with lone child migrants particularly rich case to think with, given proliferation contradictory often punitive applications these young people encounter their interactions migration welfare regimes. core argument developed that unless temporality due theoretical methodological attention, aims contesting unsettling inequities through will have limited success can wind up reproducing exclusions oppressions. In response critiques, paper temporalizes three reconstructions: working against time, de-centring shared collectivising research.