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The Voice of the Voiceless

Limitations of Empowerment and the Potential of Insider-Activist Methodologies with Anarcho-Punk Youth

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Youth ‘At the Margins’

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Abstract

Engaged models and, specifically, collaborative and participatory action research have been heralded as the quintessential ethical approaches to applied ethnographic research endeavors. Models such as action research enacted by Sol Tax (1975) are instrumental in the inclusion of native voices and can provide for sustainable outcomes of, for example, development projects (Gwynne, 2003).

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Fessenden, S.G. (2015). The Voice of the Voiceless. In: Bastien, S., Holmarsdottir, H.B. (eds) Youth ‘At the Margins’. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-052-9_6

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