This paper offers a critical reflexive perspective on a Participatory Action Research project with young people at a site of ‘advanced urban marginality’ (Wacquant, 2008). Its purpose is to explore the ways in which habitus based inequalities in the research field (Bourdieu, 1977) contributed to a parallel process of marginalisation and exclusion in the act of participating. More specifically, we examine how a particular professional academic research identity and taxonomy of participatory social research, animated by a benign intent, nonetheless exerted an ideological form of control over the enquiry, administering and recycling feelings of failure and marginalisation among participants - including the ‘professional’ researcher. To draw out the different ways this control took form, our analysis centres on a particular exchange within the group concerned with the distribution of a one-off financial stipend to participants. We endeavour to draw some conceptual insights in our exploration of this exchange, and in conclusion offer some ideas for a ‘good enough’ practice of action research undertaken in comparable socio-economic and psycho-cultural conditions.

本文提供了一个参与式行动研究项目的批判性反思性观点，该项目与年轻人一起位于“高级城市边缘”地区（Wacquant，2008年）。其目的是探究研究领域中基于惯性的不平等现象（Bourdieu，1977）促成参与行为被边缘化和排斥的平行过程的方式。更具体地说，我们研究了由良性意图激发的特定专业学术研究身份和参与性社会研究的分类法，如何以意识形态的方式控制参与者的询问，管理和回收失败和边缘化的感觉，包括“专业的研究员。为了弄清楚这种控制形式的不同方式，我们的分析集中在与参与者分配一笔过的财务津贴相关的小组内部的特定交流上。我们将在探索这种交流的过程中努力汲取一些概念上的见解，并为在可比的社会经济和心理文化条件下开展的“足够好”的行动研究实践提供一些想法。