Decolonizing youth participatory action research practices: A case study of a girl-centered, anti-racist, feminist PAR with Indigenous and racialized girls in Victoria, BC

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dc.contributor.authorKhanna, Nishad
dc.contributor.supervisorLee, Jo-Anne
dc.contributor.supervisorRiecken, Theodore John
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-27T19:37:00Z
dc.date.available2011-04-27T19:37:00Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-04-27
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study focuses on a girl-centered, anti-racist, feminist PAR program with Indigenous and racialized girls in Victoria, a smaller, predominantly white city in British Columbia, Canada. As a partnership among antidote: Multiracial and Indigenous Girls and Women’s Network, and an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers who are also members of antidote, this project defies typical insider-outsider dynamics. In this thesis, I intend to speak back to mainstream Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) literature, contesting the notion that this methodology provides an easy escape from the research engine and underlying colonial formations. Practices of YPAR are continuously (re)colonized, producing new forms of colonialism and imperialism. Our process can be described as an ongoing rhythm of disruptions and recolonizations that are not simple opposites, but are mutually reliant and constitutive within neocolonial formations. In other words, our practice involved creatively disrupting new forms of colonialism and imperialism as they emerged, while recognizing that our responses were not outside of these formations. I seek to make our roles as researchers visible, rather than hidden by hegemonic equalizing claims of PAR, and will explore some of the ways that white noise infiltrated our ongoing efforts of decolonizing YPAR practices.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3256
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectDecolonizingen_US
dc.subjectParticipatory Action Researchen_US
dc.subjectfeministen_US
dc.subjectanti-racisten_US
dc.subjectgirl-centereden_US
dc.subjectyouthen_US
dc.subjectgirlsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous girlsen_US
dc.subjectracialized girlsen_US
dc.subjectarts-based methodsen_US
dc.subjectwhitenessen_US
dc.subjectVictoriaen_US
dc.subjectcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectcritical practicesen_US
dc.subjectintergenerationalen_US
dc.subjectparticipationen_US
dc.subjectcolonial timeen_US
dc.subjectpostcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectcritical race theoryen_US
dc.subjectwhite noiseen_US
dc.titleDecolonizing youth participatory action research practices: A case study of a girl-centered, anti-racist, feminist PAR with Indigenous and racialized girls in Victoria, BCen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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