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Research Seminar - "How we see it": Studying the well-being of girls and young women in the context of media making to addressing sexual violence

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:00to13:00
Wilson Hall Wendy Patrick room (room 118), 3506 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, CA
Price: 
Free

 “What would it really mean to study the world from the standpoint of [adolescent girls] both as knowers and as actors?” asks sociologist Anne Oakley (1994, p. 23) Her question has been an important one for framing and re-framing research to take account of the perspectives of  girls and young women,  and in so doing provides the foundation for a six year study working with Indigenous girls and young women in Canada and South Africa who are engaged in discussion, cellphilm production, photovoice and various forms of art-making to address sexual violence But alongside possibilities for deepening an understanding of the issues for researchers and potentially policy makers, the most important question must surely be related to what this work might mean to the participants themselves? To date there are few studies that ask this question even though there is often an implicit sense that participation  and media production is inherently good, as we see in work that uses terms such as ‘voice’, ‘agency’ and ‘empowerment’. But is this the case for work in the area of sexual violence? How might we look at  this work in the context of the health and well being of girls and young women? 

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