“…An analysis of power relations between humans during research practices has been central, for instance in the development of feminist (Kindon et al, 2007), queer (Berlant, 2013) and decolonising approaches (Hall and Tandon, 2017;Smith 1999), especially when researching and engaging with marginalised, under-researched or under-represented communities. Freire's work on critical pedagogy (Freire, 2000), bell hooks' work on feminist and transformative pedagogy (Hooks, 1994(Hooks, , 2004, and participatory action research (Hall and Kidd, 1978;Reason and Bradbury, 2006;Wakeford and Rodriguez, 2018) collectively supported us to develop a methodology where male research participants could be challenged to examine power structures and patterns of inequality associated with how they shape and are shaped by the agri-food system and various food cultures. We were committed to devising a research methodology where participants could not only be empowered to shape the direction of the research process, but also to for it become potentially transformative in terms of their personal understanding of where they sit across different axes of inequalities and hierarchies.…”