Resistance, Action and Transformation in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) Project with Homeless Youth

Goldberg, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01426-1_8-1

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“…PAR documents and enacts sociocultural resistance through the formation of a collective organized around a central issue that aims toward intentional action to confront the issue (O'Neill, 2018). PAR has documented resistance in various communities, including the study of stigmatization and youth homelessness (Goldberg, 2020), perinatal wellness among Aboriginal women (Macedo et al, 2019), ageism in a senior community (Trentham & Neysmith, 2018), and critical consciousness and the language of resistance (Twining, 2016). In each of these examples, PAR's process highlighted intentional resistance strategies and increased critical consciousness while developing resources for continued sociocultural resistance.…”

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Sowing the seeds: Sociocultural resistance in the psychological sciences.

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2024

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objective: This article problematizes the use of resilience as a psychological and developmental indication of well-being. We base our argument on the possibility that resilience theories internalize responsibility for survival within the individual, and that survival is dependent on the ability to assimilate to injustice. Resistance, on the other hand, represents acts of intentional, active, and often collective survival which can expose and oppose social injustice. Method: Bringing together transdisciplinary scholarship on resistance, we propose a conceptual framework of sociocultural resistance. This framework seeks to forward studies of health that acknowledge the complexity of relationships, culture, and power constitutive of the human condition. Results: We provide examples of sociocultural resistance in the psychological and developmental sciences and suggest the use of diverse theory and methods in the study of resistance. Conclusions: Resistance research is a timely, necessary, and critical turning point in the social sciences with the potential to change unjust systems and promote a nuanced view of health. Public Significance StatementScientists who study resilience focus on how individuals and communities cope with adversity to "bounce back" to health. Studies of resilience, which do not also attend to systemic oppression (e.g., racism), overlook opportunities to transform unjust social conditions that impede health and well-being. This conceptual article presents researchers with an alternative perspective to study how marginalized groups resist adversity through the development of a framework of sociocultural resistance.

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