Innovations in Youth Research [Hardcover]

This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Innovations in Youth Research: An Introduction; S.Heath? & C.Walker Unravelling Attachments to Extreme Metal Music with 'Music Elicitation'; N.Allett Meaningful Meanderings: Using Mobile Methods to Research Young People's Everyday Lives; N.Ross, E.Renold, S.Holland? & A.Hillman The Use of Mental Maps in Youth Research: Some Evidence from Research Exploring Young People's Awareness of and Attachment to Place; R.White? & A.Green Making Sense of Mixed Method Narratives: Young People's Identities, Life-Plans, and Time Orientations; A.Bagnoli Involving Young People as Peer Researchers in Research on Community Relations in Northern Ireland; D.Schubotz Multiple Facets of People and Place: Exploring Youth Identity and Aspirations in Madurai, South India; A.Brown? & S.Powell Using Video in a Participatory, Multi-Method Project on Young People's Everyday Lives in Rural East Germany: A Critical Reflection; N.Schaefer Young People and Policy Research: Methodological Challenges in CYP-led Research; D.Sharpe Youth Research in Web 2.0: A Case Study in Blog Analysis; H.Snee Public Profiles, Private Parties: Digital Ethnography, Ethics and Research in the Context of Web 2.0; Y.Morey , A.Bengry-Howell ?& C.Griffin Positionality and Difference in Cross-Cultural Youth Research: Being 'Other' in the Former Soviet Union; C.Walker Double Reflexivity: The Politics of Friendship, Fieldwork and Representation within Ethnographic Studies of Young People; S.Blackman ?& G.Commane Conclusion; S.Heath ?& C.Walker References IndexNICOLA ALLETT Research Associate at the Department of Social Science, Loughborough University, UKANNA BAGNOLI Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, based at the CambrilÃU