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Remix this method: a creative approach to young people’s everyday lives as political arenas
- Source :
- Journal of Youth Studies. 25:17-33
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Young people’s everyday lives are not just social and cultural environments, but also political arenas (Kallio and Häkli. 2011. ‘Are there politics in childhood?’ (Space & Polity 15 (1): 21–34, 2). A methodological approach is proposed that emphasizes young people’s knowledge, while accepting the power and privilege of the researcher. By way of illustration, this paper demonstrates how an approach to co-creation of the method, inspired by the idea of a remix or a bricolage, can provide creative tasks as stimuli for the discussion of politics but also legitimizing mechanisms for young expertise and co-creation in the research site itself as a political arena. Specifically, this paper examines how young participants responded to a digital photography task by subverting the task itself, a process which allowed them to remix the model, making them simultaneously in control of the task and dependent upon it. This complex outcome was constructive as a way to stimulate participants as they explored their everyday lives as political arenas.
- Subjects :
- Sociology and Political Science
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05 social sciences
050301 education
General Social Sciences
Gender studies
Space (commercial competition)
Rural youth
Politics
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Polity
Sociology
Life-span and Life-course Studies
0503 education
Citizenship
050104 developmental & child psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14699680 and 13676261
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3987435561292b2ce819255dc1253425