methodologies
methodologies
about
about
Our project is inspired by the youth-centred qualitative and ethnographic methods of Jo-Anne Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly, and Kathleen Gallagher. We have also incorporated additional focus centred on listening, influenced by girl-studies rights-based approaches attentive to how research claims to creates social change, but may not, (Caron), and to young people’s expressions of “tangible everyday moments of advocacy” and “nuanced examples of resistance and survivance” (de Finney and Saraceno 125). Our practices are informed by training recommend by Trauma-Informed Care Training for non-Alberta Health Services Staff.
Our interpretation leans into work developed by space and time-bending theorists like Doreen Massey and Rebecca Schneider, and community-engaged scholars like Darren Aoki and Laruence Butet-Roch and Deanna Del Vecchio, and Indigenous resurgence scholar-activists like Leanne Betasamsoke Simpson and Eve Tuck and K. W. Yang. .
Considering power, racialization, youth agency, and histories, our work explores and expands on ideas raised by anthropologists, historians and performance studies scholars like Kristine Alexander and Simon Sleight, Mona Gleason, Laura Ishiguro, Scott Magelssen, and Laura Peers.
inspiring texts
inspiring texts
Alberta Health Services, Trauma Training Initiative https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/info/page15526.aspx
Alexander, Kristine and Simon Sleight, Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age. Bloomsbury, 2023.
Aoki, Darren. Assimilation—On (Not) Turning White: Memory and the Narration of the Postwar History of Japanese Canadians in Southern Alberta. Journal of Canadian Studies, 2019, 53(2), 238–269.
Butet-Roch, Laurence, and Deanna Del Vecchio. “Elaborated Images as Decolonial Praxis.” VISUAL STUDIES, July 2023, pp. 1-16.
Caron, Caroline. “Placing the Girlhood Scholar into the Politics of Change: A Reflexive Account.” Girlhood and the Politics of Place, edited by Claudia Mitchell and Carrie Rentschler, Berghahn, 2016, pp. 122–36.
de Finney, Sandrina, and Johanne Saraceno. “Warrior Girl and the Searching Tribe: Indigenous Girls’ Everyday Negotiations of Racialization under Neocolonialism.” Girls, Texts, Cultures ,edited by Clare Bradford and Mavis Reimer, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015, pp. 113–38.
Dillabough, Jo-Anne, and Jacqueline Kennelly. Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture and theUrban Imaginary. Routledge, 2010.
Gallagher, K.. Drama education in the lives of girls : imagining possibilities. University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Ishiguro, Laura. “‘Growing Up and Grown Up…in Our Future City’: Discourses of Childhood and Settler Futurity in Colonial British Columbia.” BC Studies, vol. 190, 2016, pp. 15–37.
Massey, Doreen. For Space. Sage Publications, 2005.
Peers, Laura. Playing Ourselves: Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions. Altamira,2007.Schneider, Rebecca. Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment. Routledge, 2011.
Schneider, Rebecca. Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment. Routledge, 2011.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U of Minnesota P, 2017.
Tuck, E., & K. W. Yang, K. W. Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education Society, 2012, 1(1), 1–40.