ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an example of a new methodology developed by Southern scholars in the Global South that takes seriously the aim of emancipation: research that attempts to include and benefit those who participate. Called, Social Network Interviewing, the method draws on participatory action research as well as theories of social capitals to offer a scaffolded series of questions with which young people can engage with their networks about an issue of interest or concern for both. Drawing on three research studies in which it was used, it describes eight stages of Social Network Interviewing that includes selecting appropriate members of social networks to interview, formulating the topic for investigation, and developing questions collaboratively but which are aligned to a conceptual framework. These questions include discussing current scripts and norms circulating within social networks, interrogating contexts for barriers and enablers of action, self-reflection, and critique of current behaviours, differentiating between individual and collective action, developing strategies for social and systemic change, and enlarging supportive networks.
