Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race

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Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race offers critical perspectives on contemporary research and practice directed at young people across the global north and south. Drawing upon pedagogical, programmatic, and activist work with respect to challenging inequalities and injustices for young people, the authors interrogate the dominant discourses of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and other social categories. Emerging out of a Finnish-South African collaboration, this volume does not take a comparative approach but rather a transnational one by embracing the intersections of local and global knowledges. We draw on this transnational and transdisciplinary framework and these various contexts to generate a critique of mainstream theory and pedagogical practice, as well as to subvert and disrupt such research and practice so as to speak more directly to young people's agentic and activist engagements in social justice, specifically inequalities of class, race, gender, age, sexuality, ability, and health. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational, Intersectional and Everyday Section One Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Scholarship and Practice Directed at Young People 1 South African Research and Practice Directed at Young People: People’s Sexualities and Genders: The Political Effects of Current Responses in Local and Transnational Contexts 2 Personally Rememorizing Young People Differently: What Might Critical Adult Studies (Paradoxically) Have to Do With Researching, and Engaging With, Young People 3 The Ascendency of Whiteness: On Understanding Racialized Queerness in LGBTIQ Refugee Work 4 Ambivalent Positions and Challenging Contexts in Researching “Rainbow Youth” in Finland Section Two Alternative, Non-Hegemonic Ways of Doing Scholarship and Engaging Young People 5 Engaging Young Male University Students: Towards a Situated, Social-Psychological ProFeminist Praxis 6 Unlearning a Commitment to the “We” in a Transnational Feminist Classroom 7 Challenging Representations: Participatory Research Engagements with Young People in Postcolonial Contexts 8 Engaging in Photovoice-Based Research on a University Campus: Young People’s Reflective Experiences 9 The Good, the Bad and the Quiet Ones: Differential Positions of Boys in Researching Sexual Harassment 10 Consciousness-Raising Capacities of Photovoice: Youth Understandings of Egypt’s Transitional Moment Section Three Young People “Talking Back”: Agency, Resistance, Activism and Change 11 Social Media and Feminist Activism: #RapeMustFall, #NakedProtest and #RUReferenceList Movements in South Africa 12 Black Students’ Resistances to Stigmatizing Discourses in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study 13 Territorial Stigmatization, Gendered Racism and Young People’s Agency in a Multi-Ethnic School 14 “To Show Like the People That There Can Be Good Fathers . . . Here in Our Place”: Enabling Young People’s Alternative Discourses in a Context of Marginalization 15 Researching Troublesome Masculinities and Schooling: Critical Ethnographic Reflections 16 Happiness and Constructions of Young Masculinity Contributors Index