Urban Youth and Photovoice: Visual Ethnography in Action

The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions. But, effective community practice is predicated on the
availability and use of assessment methods that not only capture and report on conditions, but also simultaneously set the stage for social change efforts. This research, therefore, serves the dual purpose of generating knowledge and also being an integral part of social intervention. Research
done in this way, however, requires new tools. Photovoice is one such tool - a form of visual ethnography that invites participants to represent their community or point of view through photographs, accompanied by narratives, to be shared with each other and with a broader community.

Urban Youth and Photovoice focuses on the use of this method within urban settings and among adolescents and young adults - a group that is almost naturally drawn to the use of photography (especially digital and particularly in today's era of texting, facebook, and instagram) to showcase photovoice
as an important qualitative research method for social workers and others in the social sciences, and providing readers with detailed theoretical and practical account of how to plan, implement, and evaluate the results of a photovoice project focused on urban youth.


Author: Melvin Delgado
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/11/2015
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780199381326

About the Author

Melvin Delgado, PhD, Professor of Social Work & Chair of Macro-Practice, Boston University School of Social Work.

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