Risk, resilience and resistance: exploring the situated agency of LGBTQ+ youth

Bratchell, Rowan (2023). Risk, resilience and resistance: exploring the situated agency of LGBTQ+ youth. Student dissertation for The Open University module E822 Masters multi-disciplinary dissertation: education, childhood and youth.

This dissertation was produced by a student studying the Open University module E822 Masters multi-disciplinary dissertation: education, childhood and youth. The research showcased here achieved a Distinction.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.000175ab

Abstract

LGBTQ+ young people face significant challenges in surviving and thriving when compared to their cisgender and heterosexual peers. The first part of this dissertation explores existing research, identifying the ways in which LGBTQ+ youth demonstrate agency within challenging contexts. The literature suggests a tendency to essentialise the lives of LGBTQ+ youth as defined wholly by risk or resilience, placing these young people within narratives of victimhood and vulnerability. To attempt to capture the complex and nuanced ways in which LGBTQ+ negotiate agency, the second part of this dissertation proposes to employ participatory narrative methods to analyse how members of an LGBTQ+ youth group produce counternarratives.

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