ABSTRACT
This chapter explores and reflects upon two case studies with girls and young women (aged 7 to 18) from socially vulnerable backgrounds in the context of sport. The chapter begins with an overview of the lived experiences of the girls and young women in both studies, and an explanation of their contexts, before outlining the research questions that guided these studies and how both authors tried to facilitate youth voice within them. The chapter describes how girls and young women living in these communities experience social oppression in unique ways and how Participatory Action Research (PAR) and ethnography challenged the traditional research paradigms in these contexts. The chapter concludes by arguing that girls and young women have the agency and capacity to analyse their own social contexts and to challenge, resist and negotiate the forces that impede their choice of possibilities.
