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Accountable to Whom? A Critical Science Counter‐story about a City that Stopped Caring for its Young
Author(s) -
Fox Madeline,
Fine Michelle
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12031
Subject(s) - accountability , solidarity , sociology , participatory action research , praxis , citizen journalism , polling , economic justice , neoliberalism (international relations) , knowledge production , embodied cognition , public relations , public administration , media studies , political science , social science , politics , law , epistemology , knowledge management , philosophy , anthropology , computer science , operating system
Coming from a critical youth studies perspective, this article sketches a participatory action research project designed by youth and adults in New York City to evaluate the impact of neo‐liberal public policies on young people. Through telling the counter‐story of the Polling for Justice ( PFJ ) project, we propose that re‐considering accountability at the point of knowledge production is generative for re‐imagining — and realising — a more just world. PFJ examined young people's experiences of urban public policy and through embodied participatory research, privileging young people's knowledge of the everyday, attempted deep accountability, provoked precarious solidarity, and activated change.