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Research with Dis/abled Youth: Taking a Critical Disability, ‘Critically Young’ Positionality

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Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies

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Disability is too often side-lined, returned to, added on, or omitted altogether from research surrounding youth. In this chapter I want to argue for the productive potential of appreciating disability and disabled youth, not as entities to be considered separately from other research concerning young people, but as places to begin wider anti-oppressive theorizations of youth.

The need to listen carefully, or to find a way to take seriously the words of youth depends not only on methodological issues but on theoretical ones as well (Biklen, 2004, 722).

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Slater, J. (2013). Research with Dis/abled Youth: Taking a Critical Disability, ‘Critically Young’ Positionality. In: Curran, T., Runswick-Cole, K. (eds) Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008220_14

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