Empowering young people in advocacy for transformation: A photovoice exploration of safe and unsafe spaces on a university campus

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dc.contributor.authorNgabaza, Sisa
dc.contributor.authorBojarczuk, Erika
dc.contributor.authorMasuku, Michelle Paidamwoyo
dc.contributor.authorRoelfse, Rudolf
dc.date.accessioned16/02/2017 14:07
dc.date.available16/02/2017 14:07
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractGlobally and locally, research conducted with young people about safety on university campuses focuses primarily on risk and danger, particularly sexual danger. In this body of scholarship, the voices of young people are often elided. Our study intends to address both of these concerns, firstly by foregrounding the voices of students themselves through a photovoice method, and secondly by emphasising the ways in which safe and unsafe spaces are mediated by group and social identities. The aim of the study was to explore how students' perceptions of safe and unsafe places are mediated by group and social identities. A group of third-year students at an urban South African university used photovoice, a methodology that encourages participation and empowerment of young people in transforming their communities, to conduct a study identifying and photographing spaces they perceived safe and unsafe in and around campus. Narratives explained these photographs. The paper draws from this project, whose findings show that the construction of safety on campus is mediated by different factors of marginality within the student body including gender, class, citizenship and race among others. These findings are not only significant in raising concern about issues of safety on campus, but they also draw the attention of university stakeholders to these concerns, giving students a voice to be agents of transformation.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHETen_US
dc.identifier.citationNgabaza, S. et al. (2015). Empowering young people in advocacy for transformation: A photovoice exploration of safe and unsafe spaces on a university campus. African Safety Promotion, 13(1): 30-48en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2540
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC178543
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUNISAen_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the article published available online at https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC178543
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectTransformationen_US
dc.subjectUniversity campusen_US
dc.subjectAuthentic learning
dc.subjectSafetyen_US
dc.titleEmpowering young people in advocacy for transformation: A photovoice exploration of safe and unsafe spaces on a university campusen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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