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Visual Perspectives on Majority‐World Adolescent Thriving
Author(s) -
Cameron Catherine Ann,
Theron Linda,
Tapanya Sombat,
Li Chun,
Lau Cindy,
Liebenberg Linda,
Ungar Michael
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00794.x
Subject(s) - thriving , situated , psychology , psychological resilience , context (archaeology) , poverty , china , developmental psychology , social psychology , sociology , geography , political science , psychotherapist , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
This paper offers socio‐ecological, situated perspectives on adolescent resilience derived from an application of interpretive visual methodologies to deepen understanding of adaptive youth development in diverse majority‐world cultural contexts ( S outh A frica, T hailand, C hina, M exican migration to C anada). The research is not “cross‐cultural”; by contrast, it situates youth engagement contextually, using local perspectives, especially perspectives of adolescents themselves, on “growing up well” under adverse circumstances, to interrogate conceptions of resilience in cultural context. Participants are viewed as members of cultural communities: observations with a small number of individuals are not generalized to national groups. Rather, knowledge gained by these methods is employed to enrich knowledge of the processes of majority‐world youth thriving despite such adversities as poverty and social displacement.