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Youth ‘At the Margins’ pp 175–193Cite as

Conducting Fluid and Timely Research in Youth Activism

Understanding Lessons from India

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In 1991, the announcement that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize galvanized the student body of a New Delhi women’s college. While the students, until then, had little knowledge of the struggles faced by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, she had been a young undergraduate in New Delhi when her mother was assigned to the city as the Burmese ambassador to India.

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  1. International Education Ph.D. and FAST TRAIN Programs, George Mason University, USA

    Supriya Baily

  2. George Mason University, USA

    Sydney A. Merz

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  1. University of Calgary, Canada

    Sheri Bastien

  2. Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway

    Halla B. Holmarsdottir

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Baily, S., Merz, S.A. (2015). Conducting Fluid and Timely Research in Youth Activism. 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_9

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