Co-constructing knowledge of young refugees' lives in Finland Epistemological notes

This chapter recounts and reflects a research process carried out as a cooperative effort between a group of researchers, a group of young refugee men, a local NGO and arts professionals. The research was a part of ALL-YOUTH studies reaching out to diverse groups of young people including young refu...

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Published inYoung People as Agents of Sustainable Society Vol. 1; pp. 177 - 191
Main Authors Rättilä, Tiina, Hokkanen, Minna, Sillanpää, Olli
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2023
Edition1
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Refugee Background
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Young Men's Stories
Good Life
Critical Epistemology
Local NGO
Playback
Young Refugees
Feminist Social Research
Finnish Society
Researcher's Knowledge
Refugee Youth
Researcher's Question
Hindsight
Participatory Research
Knowledge Co-construction
Young Men
Youth Research
Collective Memory Work
Young People
Research Collaboration
Playback Theatre
Tour
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Summary:This chapter recounts and reflects a research process carried out as a cooperative effort between a group of researchers, a group of young refugee men, a local NGO and arts professionals. The research was a part of ALL-YOUTH studies reaching out to diverse groups of young people including young refugees, exploring their views and experiences of participation in Finnish society. The discussion of the chapter is structured around four individual accounts of what happened in the research process in terms of knowledge construction. The authors utilise ideas from critical epistemology, making a distinction between knowledge and knowing, arguing that the former concept is too static to grasp the dynamic process of knowledge formation in a context defined by creative participatory methods and open, undefined research process. In this type of context, what is being generated epistemically is not necessarily a specifiable body of knowledge to be unproblematically conceptualised and represented to the science audiences, but rather a bundle of different kinds of subjectively sensed, constructed and constantly evolving knowing(s), which the participants endow with unique meanings and purposes.
ISBN:1032384484
9781032384498
1032384492
9781032384481
DOI:10.4324/9781003345114-13