Resistance as desire: reconfiguring the "at-risk girl" through critical, girl-centred participatory action research.
| dc.contributor.author | Loiselle, Elicia | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | De Finney, Sandrine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-20T20:00:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-12-20T20:00:14Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-12-20 | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Child and Youth Care | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis is based on Project Artemis, a critical, girl-centred participatory action research (PAR) project designed as part of an evaluation of Artemis Place, an alternative education program serving “at-risk” girls in Victoria, BC. Nine Artemis Place students between the ages of 15 and 18 worked alongside me as co-researchers to investigate how Artemis Place has affected their lives. Our research also explored girl co-researchers' schooling experiences more broadly and the structural inequities they experience across the multiple contexts of their lives. Our process was rooted in a critical, participatory, collaborative framework, which aimed to investigate, problematize, and address (through social action) the complex forces shaping girls' experiences of marginalization. We used arts-based methods such as photovoice, graffiti walls, journaling and participatory video to cycle through the iterative phases of PAR: exploration/data collection, critical reflection/analysis, and action. We produced a documentary film as our primary research dissemination tool. In this thesis, I undertake my own analysis of our collective research to do a deep reading of girls' resistances to “at-risk” constructions of girlhood, in order to understand their negotiations of the complex forces shaping their daily realities. I complicate the concept of resistance using a hybridized feminist-poststructural (Davies, 2000) and desire-based (Tuck, 2010) framework to explore the ways girls' resistances are produced through flows of desire – creative and productive force – that disrupt, exceed, (re)configure, and/or (re)code “girl” and “risk.” I argue that tracing the “desire flows” (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987) and reconfigurations produced in/through our critical research process, is an important, political move toward sustaining alternative figurations of girlhood. As such, this thesis contributes promising, ethical/affirmative/political possibilities for understanding the complexities of girls' lives and for engaging alongside them in feminist research, praxis, and activism for social justice. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3754 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | girlhood | en_US |
| dc.subject | Child and Youth Care | en_US |
| dc.subject | critical | en_US |
| dc.subject | desire | en_US |
| dc.subject | resistance | en_US |
| dc.subject | participatory action research | en_US |
| dc.subject | youth | en_US |
| dc.subject | feminist | en_US |
| dc.subject | girl studies | en_US |
| dc.subject | neo-liberalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | participatory evaluation | en_US |
| dc.subject | at-risk | en_US |
| dc.title | Resistance as desire: reconfiguring the "at-risk girl" through critical, girl-centred participatory action research. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |