Walking and talking with girls in their urban environments: A methodological meandering

dc.contributor.authorHorgan, Deirdre
dc.contributor.authorFernández, Eluska
dc.contributor.authorKitching, Karl
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-06T10:36:43Z
dc.date.available2022-04-06T10:36:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-21
dc.date.updated2022-04-06T10:31:49Z
dc.description.abstractYoung people spend a lot of time in their neighbourhood, yet little is known about the relationship between wellbeing, belonging and place from their own perspective. Our study sought to understand how young people navigate their neighbourhood and perceive various aspects of its health environment in its broadest sense. In this article we reflect on the walking methodology we used as part of a Participatory Photo Mapping (PPM) exercise with 11-year-old girls from a working-class school community who were participants in the PEACH Project. It was through walk-along interviews that students were able to tell us where events that matter to them happen; what these experiences look like (via photos that they took while we walked); and how these experiences unfold (via narratives and stories that they shared with us along the way). We reflect on the use of walking methodologies as both an emplaced approach and dynamic exercise that allowed us to access and generate visual and verbal data that privileged these young girls’ community knowledge. We conclude that this method facilitated the discussion of sensitive and political issues, as well as the emergence of unexpected data on child cultures, family and community life, belonging, wellbeing and futures.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationHorgan, D., Fernández, E. and Kitching, K. (2022) 'Walking and talking with girls in their urban environments: A methodological meandering', Irish Journal of Sociology, (24 pp). doi: 10.1177/07916035221088408en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/07916035221088408en
dc.identifier.eissn2050-5280
dc.identifier.endpage24en
dc.identifier.issn0791-6035
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Journal of Sociologyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13037
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07916035221088408
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2022en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectMethodsen
dc.subjectParticipatory photo mappingen
dc.subjectWalking interviewsen
dc.subjectGirlsen
dc.subjectWellbeingen
dc.titleWalking and talking with girls in their urban environments: A methodological meanderingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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