ABSTRACT
Currently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on ‘how to’ conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context.
In total, five themes are examined – conceptualising young people, ethics and consent, the digital, voice, participation and unexpected tensions. In this book, authors from six countries explore the complexities of researching with young people across disciplines and national contexts.
Offering a closeup examination of their own research experiences, the authors address the complexities of researching with young people beyond simple questions of protection from harm and coercion by problematising notions of ‘resilience’, ‘participation’, ‘risk’ and ‘voice’. This edited collection takes the reader through an exploration of its key themes and, in doing so, presents a cast of candid and insightful accounts from youth researchers situated within the humanities and social sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Theme I|42 pages
Conceptualising young people
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Researching the lives of young Māori in Aotearoa, New Zealand
chapter Chapter 3|13 pages
Doing research in organisations
chapter Chapter 4|13 pages
They look before they leap
part Theme II|40 pages
Digital research
chapter Chapter 5|13 pages
Critical reflections
chapter Chapter 6|13 pages
Digital modes of data collection in mixed-methods longitudinal youth research
chapter Chapter 7|12 pages
Revealing intimacy through digital media
part Theme III|44 pages
Ethical dilemmas
chapter Chapter 8|14 pages
Researching young people’s experiences
chapter Chapter 9|15 pages
Working with complexity
chapter Chapter 10|13 pages
Informed consent as a situated research process in an ethnography of incarcerated youth in Denmark
part Theme IV|66 pages
Voice and participation
chapter Chapter 11|13 pages
The undue burden of methodological warrant on the voice of disengaged young people
chapter Chapter 13|12 pages
Participation, positionality and power
chapter Chapter 14|14 pages
Participatory research and political ecology
part Theme V|42 pages
Unexpected tensions