Representing Youth
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Representing Youth by Amy L Best
How 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.
"A powerful and compelling book that represents cutting-edge new directions in critical youth studiesThis 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 *
"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 *
Amy L. Best is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. She is the author of Fast-Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social Ties, Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars, and the award-winning, Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture. She also edited Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814799536 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814799531 |
| Title | Representing Youth |
| Author | Amy L Best |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| Year published | 2007-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 342 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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