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	Fenomenologia Critica	Fenomenologia Partecipativa
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Late 20th–early 21st century (fully articulated ~2000s–2010s)	1990s (converging streams: van Manen 1990; Heron & Reason 1997)
Ideatore	Lisa Guenther, Gayle Salamon, Alia Al-Saji (among others); draws on Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Frankfurt School critical theory	John Heron and Peter Reason (participatory inquiry); Max van Manen (lifeworld phenomenology)
Tipo	Qualitative research approach — interpretive and emancipatory	Qualitative research approach
Fonte seminale	Guenther, L. (2020). Critical phenomenology. In G. Weiss, A. V. Murphy, & G. Salamon (Eds.), 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology (pp. 11–16). Northwestern University Press. ISBN: 978-0810141018	Heron, J. (1996). Co-operative Inquiry: Research into the Human Condition. Sage. ISBN: 978-0803977366
Alias	critical-phenomenological inquiry, critical-phenomenological analysis, phenomenology and critical theory, politically engaged phenomenology	collaborative phenomenology, participatory phenomenological inquiry, co-operative phenomenology, participatory lifeworld research
Correlati	6	3
Sintesi	Critical phenomenology is a qualitative research approach that merges classical phenomenological methods with critical theory to examine how structural forces — race, gender, class, disability, and other axes of power — shape and constrain lived experience. Rather than pursuing neutral description of universal essences, it asks whose experiences are centred, whose are marginalised, and how oppressive social structures are reproduced in the body and in everyday life. It has been consolidated as a distinct field by scholars such as Lisa Guenther, Gayle Salamon, and Alia Al-Saji.	Participatory phenomenology combines the depth of phenomenological inquiry — attending to the lived structure of experience — with the democratic ethos of participatory research, in which those being studied become active co-researchers. Rather than treating participants as data sources, the approach positions them as collaborative investigators of their own experiential world, producing knowledge that is both phenomenologically rich and collectively validated.