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Book SynopsisHow should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies? This work features essays on the subject of youth that address these concerns, providing scholars with practical answers to their many methodological concerns.
Trade ReviewA powerful and compelling book that represents cutting-edge new directions in critical youth studies. This is a passionate call for a critical moral consciousness that will create more humane spaces for today's youth in our complex global culture. -- Norman K. Denzin,co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research
In this volume, Amy Best offers critical youth studies an epistemological compass, a collection of essays that spans across nations, methods, sexualities, ethnicities, generations and age, reflecting provocatively on how we create knowledge with, for and by youth. This book promises to be a classic for the next generation of scholars perched to engage critically, respectfully, theoretically and provocatively with youth, to inscribe a twenty-first century signature on critical youth studies. -- Michelle Fine,co-author of Working Method: Research and Social Justice
Should be of value to researchers doing ethnographic field studies with youth. * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAmy L. BestPart I Framing Youth: De?nitional Boundaries and Ambiguities1 Across a Great Gulf? Rebecca Raby2 "Label Jars Not People"Marc Flacks3 Grow 'em StrongMichael Ungar4 A Roof over Their HeadYvonne VissingPart II From the Field: Adults in Youth Worlds5 With a Capital "G": Gatekeepers and Gatekeeping in Research with Children Madeline Leonard6 Will the Least-Adult Please Stand Up? Life as "Older Sister Katy" in a Taiwanese Elementary School Kathryn Gold Hadley7 The Outsider Lurking Online: Adults Researching Youth Cybercultures Alyssa Richman8 Racing Age: Re?ections on Antiracist Research with Teenage Girls Jessica Karen Taft9 "What If a Guy Hits on You?": Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents C. J. PascoePart III Activating Youth: Youth Agency, Collaboration, and Representation10 Trouble on Memory Lane: Adults and Self-Retrospection in Researching Youth Sari Knopp Biklen11 Power-Puff Ethnography/Guerrilla Research: Children as Native Anthropologists Elizabeth Chin12 Performing Youth: Youth Agency and the Production of Knowledge in Community-Based Theater Stephani Etheridge Woodson13 Beyond "Straight" Interpretations: Researching Queer Youth Digital Video Susan DriverAbout the Contributors Index
