Youth are not all the same on the appropriateness and limits of participatory methods in youth research

Youth are not all the same on the appropriateness and limits of participatory methods in youth research

The field of youth studies has traditionally promoted participatory methods, assuming that young people prefer creativity over standard methods like traditional ethnography or one-to-one interviews. However, my experience in Medellín, Colombia, reveals complications. While youth with strong ties to civil society and activism found comfort in participatory methods, youth who were out of school or in conflict with the law felt alienated by formali…

These disappearances are observed in the most populous municipalities, as well as in the region of the Altar desert.

As the evidence that the spread of clandestine graves and training ranches, found and documented to a large extent thanks to the efforts of mothers of missing persons, increases in almost every direction in the country, it is important to ask ourselves what is the differentiated impact that these dimensions of violence have particularly on our youth.