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Critical Youth Participatory Action Research

Ideology, Consciousness, and Praxis

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Youth as/in Crisis

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We are living in a “moment”, so to speak. As young adults, the aggressive nature of gendered, racialized, and capitalist violence and dispossession appears in our everyday interactions, and manifests in our generation’s increased disenfranchisement from political leadership, state, and institutional infrastructure. The general sentiment is that our social world may worsen in relation to our struggle against this violence and dispossession before it “gets better”.

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    Paula V. Elias

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Elias, P.V. (2017). Critical Youth Participatory Action Research. In: Carpenter, S., Mojab, S. (eds) Youth as/in Crisis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-098-1_3

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