Aldred, R. (2011). "From community participation to organizational therapy? World café and Appreciative Inquiry as research methods." Community Development Journal 46(1): 57-71.
This article critically examines two popular participatory research and policy-making methods within community development, World café (WC) and Appreciative Inquiry (AI). The author argues that both WC and AI offer innovative approaches to research but that they are potentially problematic, with the risk of imposing an interpretation of structural problems as 'misperceptions', a potentially stigmatizing interpretation of 'empowerment' and making questionable assumptions about social change. This article is valuable to read along-side the growing literature which promotes the use of participatory methods of community research.