scholarly journals Zine Production with Queer Youth and Pre-Service Teachers in New Brunswick, Canada: Exploring Connections, Divergences, and Visual Practices

Author(s):  
Casey Burkholder ◽  
Katie Hamill ◽  
Amelia Thorpe

Queer, trans, and non-binary youth navigate school spaces punctuated by erasures, silences, and oppression, and resist these experiences through solidarity-building, activism, and art practice. In this article, we seek to centre experiences of school and society as important spheres of inquiry through participatory visual research with queer, trans, and non-binary young people (ages 12 to 17) and pre-service teachers and community educators (ages 22 to 40) in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Using an intersectional lens, we consider how intersecting power structures—gender, race, class, and disability—produce unequal impacts in relation to school and social experiences in New Brunswick. Centring youth agency, we position youth as knowledge producers through participatory visual methods of inquiry, including the making of zines (DIY print productions). With youth and pre-service teachers, through inquiry into existing and desired school and social experiences, we seek to make visual the practice of intergenerational solidarity building through zine production. Keywords: participatory visual research, queer, trans and non-binary youth, pre-service teachers, zines

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-388
Author(s):  
Laura Simpson Reeves ◽  
Lauren Leigh Hinthorne

Abstract Visual research methods continue to be explored as a viable tool within community development, particularly amongst advocates for participatory approaches. It is widely agreed that visual research methods can assist participants in externalizing abstract concepts and create spaces for reflective dialogue. However, these methods are frequently used across the sector with little theorizing or critical reflection. Moreover, visual research methods and participatory processes are often conflated. There is also an assumption that visual research methods, particularly when used in development contexts, can disrupt power structures. This research draws on a case study from Papua New Guinea (PNG) to modestly challenge this assumption and, in doing so, argues for more critical and reflexive practice across community development. The article critically analyses a workshop held in rural PNG in 2013 that employed a visual multimethod approach. The workshop took place over four days with the aim of creating a local community development plan. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that while the visual research methods used in PNG demonstrated evidence of shifting some power structures, this was not necessarily because of the method or methods themselves, and was actually more closely linked to the locale in which we facilitated the method(s).


2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Wiles ◽  
Amanda Coffey ◽  
Judy Robison ◽  
Jon Prosser

The ethical regulation of social research in the UK has been steadily increasing over the last decade or so and comprises a form of audit to which all researchers in Higher Education are subject. Concerns have been raised by social researchers using visual methods that such ethical scrutiny and regulation will place severe limitations on visual research developments and practice. This paper draws on a qualitative study of social researchers using visual methods in the UK. The study explored their views, the challenges they face and the practices they adopt in relation to processes of ethical review. Researchers reflected on the variety of strategies they adopted for managing the ethical approval process in relation to visual research. For some this meant explicitly ‘making the case’ for undertaking visual research, notwithstanding the ethical challenges, while for others it involved ‘normalising’ visual methods in ways which delimited the possible ethical dilemmas of visual approaches. Researchers only rarely identified significant barriers to conducting visual research from ethical approval processes, though skilful negotiation and actively managing the system was often required. Nevertheless, the climate of increasing ethical regulation is identified as having a potential detrimental effect on visual research practice and development, in some instances leading to subtle but significant self-censorship in the dissemination of findings.


2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Dyson

This paper uses long-term research in an Indian village to develop Karl Mannheim’s notion of each generation’s ‘fresh contact’ with their inherited social and environmental setting. I examine how a generation of young people re-apprehend their local environment following a period of migration. I argue that young people aged between 25 and 34 who have lived outside their locality re-appraise their village economically and spiritually when they return home. I point to the social nature of this ‘fresh contact’, its spatial character, and the high degree of reflexivity that young men display in discussing their own agency as a generation – a point that emerged especially clearly in their discussion of the term ‘ mahaul,’ a Hindi word meaning ‘atmosphere’. The paper contributes to geographical and anthropological work on youth agency by highlighting the utility of notions of fresh contact in specific social conjunctures, such as the migration of a particular cohort. At the same time, it suggests the importance of placing alongside Mannheim’s work an explicit focus on the spatial nature of fresh contact, the sociality that constitutes cohorts as generations, and young people’s reflexive capacity to theorise their generational agency.


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania-María Esperon-Porto ◽  
Aline Krause-Lemke

Society shows a double bind, as it defines adolescents´ place. This is reflected on the attitude of the educators, who understand this phase as the most critical and complex. One among the new passwords for youth is the redesigning of sociability around the so-called “urban tribes”; in other words, young people are motivated by categories that signal to being together and to a new organic solidarity. In the dynamicity of such re-appropriations by adolescents, the means of communication, specially tv, as social and cultural mediators, become new perceptual organizer and re-organizer that act upon relationships and social experiences. Who is this XXI century young person? Howdoes he live? How does he relate to the tv? What does he like?... La sociedad, al definir el lugar del adolescente, tiene ambivalencias que se reflejan en las actitudes de los educadores, que entienden esta fase como una de las más críticas y complejas. Una de las nuevas señas de la identidad juvenil es la reafirmación de la socialización en torno de las llamadas «tribus urbanas» o sea, sus motivaciones están en torno de categorías que constituyen las señales de un estar juntos, en una nueva solidaridad orgánica. En la dinámica de esas reapropiaciones por los jóvenes, los medios de comunicación, en especial la televisión, como una de las mediaciones sociales y culturales, constituyen un nuevo organizador perceptivo y un reorganizador de relaciones y experiencias sociales. ¿Quién es ese joven del siglo XXI? ¿Cómo vive? ¿Cómo es que el se relaciona con la televisión y el cine? ¿Cuáles son sus predilecciones? Son interrogantes que nos llevaron a querer escuchar, mirar y conocer quién es el adolescente, que muchas veces no logra comunicarse con el adulto. Conocerlos más de cerca, por medio de sus ojos y de sus relaciones con los medios, nos permitió diferentes formas de interpretación de su día a día para la comprensión de los significados atribuidos a las situaciones locales y eventos y consecuentemente establecer espacios de aprendizaje, de dialogo y comunicación con los sujetos escolares para mejor entender la escuela actual. Por tanto, trajimos datos de investigaciones por nosotros realizadas (en escuelas básicas de Pelotas/RS y SP/SP Brasil) con adolescentes que nos proporcionaran reflexiones acerca de sus intereses, relaciones e interacciones con la televisión, cine y con la sociedad en general. Para recoger datos, utilizamos la observación participante, el cuestionario, la entrevista no estructurada y la realización de vivencias, con los adolescentes con los medios, en especial, con la TV y el Cine. Las experiencias con los medios de comunicación tienen por objetivo contribuir para la motivación, funcionar como preparación y, sobre todo, provocar la reflexión en los adolescentes. Así los datos nos proporcionarán conocer y actuar de acuerdo con la realidad de estos jóvenes que tienen tantas cosas para contarnos y muchas veces no les son ofrecidos los espacios ni el tiempo necesario. Comprender lo que los movilizan y las actividades con las cuales se envuelven es una forma de que nosotros profesores e investigadores tengamos elementos para el ejercicio de la docencia y de la ciudadanía, en el contexto de nuestra actuación.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 636-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ◽  
Ana Martins ◽  
Imelda Coyne ◽  
Gemma Bryan ◽  
Faith Gibson

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-342
Author(s):  
Adrian Vickers

Digital tools offer new possibilities for visual research, and such tools can provide methods for revitalising our understanding of the field of culture. Despite the importance of the visual as an element of culture, it is only in the last decade that the visual as a phenomenon of seeing has been a major feature of theoretical and methodological approaches to Southeast Asia. The long traditions of art history, anthropology and related fields in Southeast Asian studies have hitherto been focused on empirical documentation. In studying one aspect of the visual archive created by the polymath Gregory Bateson during his partnership with Margaret Mead, I will draw on methodologies that have their origins in Bateson's writings. These methodologies find fresh conditions in digital environments, in ways that allow us to bring into play a variety of theories of the visible.


Author(s):  
Andrea Kölbel

In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. However, this perspective is fairly narrow and runs the risk of reinforcing pervasive and often polarizing depictions of youth. In order to broaden the understanding of young people’s collective actions and their potential social implications, it is necessary to ask: What types of agency do young people demonstrate? This book aims to scrutinize some of the conceptual ideas that underlie prevalent visions of youth as agents of social change and as a source of hope for a better future. As a part of the Education and Society in South Asia series, it provides insightful accounts of students’ daily routines on and around a public university campus in Kathmandu, Nepal, and calls attention to a group of non-elite university students who have remained less visible in scholarly and public debates about student activism, youth unemployment, and international migration. By placing different strands of literature on youth, aspiration, and mobility into conversation, In Search of a Future unveils new and important perspectives on how young people navigate competing social expectations, educational inequalities, and limited job prospects.


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