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If participation is so central to participatory and action-oriented research, how can researchers foster forms of participation that are more meaningful, engaged, and genuine? In his recent article, 鈥楺ueering Participation: Reimagining the Researcher-Researched Nexus鈥�, published in the Journal of Homosexuality, PAIS's Raymond Hyma introduces the concept of 鈥榪ueering participation鈥� to challenge the hierarchical power dynamics often embedded within participatory methods. Drawing on a case study with the LGBTIQ community in Cambodia, the article proposes queering participation as a way of disrupting normative roles within research relationships by reconfiguring who is positioned as researcher and who becomes the researched. In doing so, it challenges the traditional researcher-researched nexus and highlights how positionality and shared lived experience can generate forms of insight often overlooked within conventional research paradigms. The article ultimately argues for reimagining participation in participatory research through a queer theory lens, advocating for the leadership of marginalised communities in knowledge production rather than their inclusion in passive, peripheral, or performative ways.

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